Marie Haynes shared a photo of Google's new "Major Spam Problems" notification sent via the Google Search Console. This seems to be a replacement of the pure spam manual action.
Here is a picture of the new manual action or at least the revised text of the pure spam manual action:
I guess the term "pure" spam is more confusing than "major spam problems" - which I would agree with.
Here is Marie's tweet:
This is new to me. Instead of "pure spam" Google is now saying "major spam problems". pic.twitter.com/ymNkoTz2iz
— Marie Haynes (@Marie_Haynes) February 19, 2016
Forum discussion at Twitter.