So there is this Discord scam that I almost fell victim to and perhaps you all should be aware of.

[Strider_Blaze]

So yeah to cut to the results, the worst that's happened to me is that I currently can't access my account.

Now as to how, so apparently a person on my friends list sent me a message saying that they "accidentally" reported my account. They sent me a screenshot of the email they supposedly got with the user I should contact. I go through an elaborate "validation process" that included changing my email to what they provided and it was up to this point where it hit me that this was a scam. They had told me that I needed to pay $150 to validate my account and that they would promise to refund back, which of course I already suspected would be the case.

Of course I needed to look up this up and yup indeed it was a scam. Thankfully I didn't leave any payment information, but man do I feel so stupid. The email that the scammer wanted me to change it to should have been a red flag for me.

And I just found out my account is being used for said scam.

 

[BasilZero]

That seems like a pretty common scam, if I remember right, someone made a thread about it few months ago but instead of discord it was Steam or psn I think

 

[Donos]

Nowadays i double and tripple check everything. And use a good password manager setup. I suspect a scam behind everything.
I once won a HTC Vive headset and i got a call from a woman who wanted to check/get an adresse for the delivery. Boy was i extremely reluctant talking to her...i only belived it wasn't some kind of scam when it arrived.

 

[StrangerDanger]

They do the same thing on Steam. They make you click a link to vote for their team, then you link your steam account to the website to login, and then they somehow "hijack" your account and put some fake temporary status saying this account is being monitored for fraudulent things. They remove a game from account, and change your picture. Then you get a fake message from steam support saying to click link to login or change your settings or something. That's probably when they can get full access to your account

 

[Spacejaws]

That seems like a pretty common scam, if I remember right, someone made a thread about it few months ago but instead of discord it was Steam or psn I think

Click to shrink...

Yea I saw a post here it was through discord someone claiming to have reported their Steam account and I think a fake discord Steam support account or something. It does seem fairly common I think there's been a another thread too.

I guess ultimately no one is ever going to contact you through discord to resolve account issues. I'm not even sure if Discords own support would do that, it should be emails directly to you from their actual support accounts and no ones ever going to ask you to give them credentials or change email addresses etc.

 

[Chumunga64]

That seems like a pretty common scam, if I remember right, someone made a thread about it few months ago but instead of discord it was Steam or psn I think

Click to shrink...

that was me! I wanted to make it completely sure before I started trolling them

they blocked me when I asked them to marry me and we can game together for the rest of our lives

*sigh*

romance is dead

 

[The Omega Man]

I knew it was the infamous "I reported you by accident" discord scam before clicking.
It's actually very well known by now, or at
Least it should be, I even think I have read some other post about it here on Era.

 

[Jawmuncher]

A good rule of thumb is that if you ever have to do more work than you think you should for something, it's likely a scam.

Being Lazy truly has benefits for not getting scammed online lol

 

[Max|Payne]

I'm too nice to be reported, therefore I would be immediately suspicious and kick their scammy ass raw.

 

[Fiction]

Number rule on the internet for me right now is to never ever ever click links in dms on discord.

 

[chefbags]

Happened to me a month ago, seemed real for a hot minute then googled what exactly they're doing and yep found hella reports about it. Quite clever for a bit honestly.

 

[Alcoremortis]

Yeah this scam is very common on Discord, but I think getting it from a friend's account makes it worse. I lost my Skype account for a few days around a decade ago because I got a message from a Skype friend I hadn't heard from in ages that was just a link. I thought they wanted to talk about what was in the link and I was so excited to hear from them that I clicked the link and, boom, account hijacked. Luckily I was able to get it back through Skype support before they were able to nab any of my other friends' accounts, but yeah, not good. It was almost worse that this friend hadn't actually tried to reach out too, so double whammy there.

Now if someone sends me a link that doesn't include a preview or an embed, I won't click it unless they tell me exactly where it is going and why I, personally, would be interested in it.

 

[Qikz]

Number rule on the internet for me right now is to never ever ever click links in dms on discord.

Click to shrink...

This is a good rule of thumb in general for internet security. Never click links anywhere from anyone you're not expecting even if they're your friends and question pretty much any link before clicking on it even if you are expecting something lol

 

[Isilia]

Getting to the point that I just assume everything is a scam.

The one I got was a friend asking me to test their video game.

They're a history tour guide

I'm pretty sure he cannot make video games.

 

[BLEEN]

Yep. That's the most common scam. Same on anything that has a followers/following/friend's list to gain your trust.

 

[Soap]

I'm almost certain I saw exactly the same topic and post on here a few months ago

 

[Reym]

Don't feel too bad, OP. Anyone can get caught up in these things. Glad all you lost was an account.

 

[DuckSauce]

Getting to the point that I just assume everything is a scam.

The one I got was a friend asking me to test their video game.

They're a history tour guide

I'm pretty sure he cannot make video games.

Click to shrink...

You don't know that! You've now destroyed this historian's chances at creating the next Assassin's Creed, I hope you are happy.

 

[PAFenix]

The one I got was a friend asking me to test their video game.

Click to shrink...

Yooo someone in a discord group I'm in got this one......from a hacked account of someone else in the same group, which was how the DMs started circulating. The potential victim though was a MOD of the Discord and banned them with a quickness lmao

 

[LumberPanda]

I remember reading the exact same "I accidentally reported your account" phish on Era not long ago, but it was for Steam.

If someone messages you out of the blue to do something actionable, message them on another platform. Or call them.

 

[Mango Pilot]

What would the have accidentally reported your account for?

Don't understand that part of the scam. If you were reported wouldn't they inform you via your own account you for whatever that person "reported you" for? What are the repercussions that you would face that would cause you to change the email?

 

[LumberPanda]

What would the have accidentally reported your account for?

Don't understand that part of the scam. If you were reported wouldn't they inform you via your own account you for whatever that person reported you for?

Click to shrink...

It doesn't really matter. The prompt is engineered to evoke emotion, e.g. "loss of my discord account if I don't do this, and this is a trusted friend account", so that you don't think about it too hard before doing the action they want.

The majority of social engineering scams don't make much sense, because if they are counting on you sitting there and thinking about it then they've already lost.

 

[Isilia]

You don't know that! You've now destroyed this historian's chances at creating the next Assassin's Creed, I hope you are happy.

Click to shrink...

Considering his old video projects, I think I saved people.

Yooo someone in a discord group I'm in got this one......from a hacked account of someone else in the same group, which was how the DMs started circulating. The potential victim though was a MOD of the Discord and banned them with a quickness lmao

Click to shrink...

Yeah, one of the mods of mine did believe them. They'll even get on a video call to explain to you how to get the virus, I mean totally legit game

 

[ThatRebel]

I have a streamer friend that that happened to. A long time follower or maybe even one of his mods or personal friends got hacked, the message came from them so he clicked the link and lost his main Discord account and had to nuke his server. For the new one, he made himself the highest level mod but gave his wife, who rarely uses Discord, the ownership of the server. Someone that makes the server more secure in the event he ends up falling for something to similar. He's normally a paranoid, very careful person too. It really can happen to anyone.

 

[Falk]

Don't feel too bad, OP. Anyone can get caught up in these things. Glad all you lost was an account.

Click to shrink...

valheim's official discord got taken over for a good few days because an irongate staff member got compromised

it happens

 

[Strider_Blaze]

Think the most frustrating thing is that discord support seems slow. I don't want to lose access to the groups I was in, because it's so difficult to keep track.

 

[MegaRockEXE]

This was making the rounds on Twitter a couple months ago. People were dunking on the guy for making such a long-winded account of what went down and far they let it go when apparently everyone knew it was a very common and obvious scam. Spawned a lot of memes too.

 

[Alcoremortis]

Getting to the point that I just assume everything is a scam.

The one I got was a friend asking me to test their video game.

They're a history tour guide

I'm pretty sure he cannot make video games.

Click to shrink...

Yeah this one is a common one. I heard about it from the PirateSoftware guy on youtube.

 

[TheKeipatzy]

What would the have accidentally reported your account for?

Don't understand that part of the scam. If you were reported wouldn't they inform you via your own account you for whatever that person "reported you" for? What are the repercussions that you would face that would cause you to change the email?

Click to shrink...

In my case when I got to scam years ago it was because my display image was considered "offensive" even though it was just a taco wrapper!

I changed it anyway just because one of my friends asked me to change it to something different, but it's "whatever they feel like"
Sadly with my scam I got, the person ended up never coming back was a shame too. Nice friend but obviously their account was highjacked

 

[HylianSeven]

I had one of those as a discord message claiming they mistakenly reported my Steam profile. I knew it was a scam but played along just to see what would happen. When they got to the point of asking me to click a link or do some validation or something I said something like "Nice try, if this was true Steam Support would have contacted me"

They reply "fucking noob" and block me. 😂

 

[Strider_Blaze]

Been a whole week now and I still have been unable to get my discord account back. Sadly someone on that I contacted before fell for the scam too using my stolen account and they lost money in the process. And they blamed me for it. God now I'm guilt ridden and upset.