Trying to Fix Minecraft's Biggest Scam

Phishing scams are rampant in the Minecraft community, especially those targeting Hypixel. We tried to do something about it.

CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
1:56 - The Verification Scam
6:50 - Microsoft's Response
9:04 - Discord's Response
12:23 - Protecting Yourself
14:43 - What to do if You Fall For One

MUSIC (In order of Appearance)
C418 - Wait
Prism Age - Plural
Terraria Calamity Mod Theme of the sunken sea
Lud & Schlatts - Financial Obligation
Terraria Calamity Mod Theme of the sunken sea (again)
C418 - Stal
C418 - Chirp
Lud & Schaltts - Tax Office Day
HOME - Tides

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[actuset]

It's crazy how a chain of inconspicuous bad designs can lead to such an issue. I really appreciate your effort!

[Rangotherabbit]

Discord seems very incompetent. Mobile app is terrible now, and they don't want any feedback. Sad.

[klebestiftlp]

Correction at 09:50 . You dont need a bot to ban someone from your server even though they've never been on it.

All you need is developer mode active, and the users user-ID on discord. Then using basic discord commands and the User ID, you can ban anyone. As long as you have their User ID.

[Sirmurp]

Me and my friend were victims of his scam (We shared account passwords with each other for personal reasons) and both of our skyblock profiles were taken over. I am happy big youtubers like you are acknowledging this scam.

[hi_iam__alexx]

Hi, i'm the person at 2:11 named __alexx. Literally watched this video earlier and didn't notice my name until one of my friends just DMd me about it. That person specifically actually invited me to an NEU copy server, so I reported it in the real NEU server. The server got banned a couple days later. Didn't think you guys would see it lol

[mrdragonboi]

Not gonna lie, getting rid of the Trust & Safety form was arguably one of the worst updates Discord has done, and the fact that you would have to bypass a ban with a VPN or whatever with an alt, makes things harder.

[Probba]

Gotta love how Microsoft forced account migration and 2FA onto the community without actually addressing any of the existing security issues

[kaseyau]

Great video as always! Watched on 16x speed.

[Voball]

12:47

another way to find scams is to look at the date the members have joined discord or the server, if there are too many users joining on the same date, it's a scam


or looking at mutual servers with some of the members (namely someone famous) and checking their profile or activity on the other servers is also a giveaway

[AlexxOffi]

Thank you for covering that topic, I'm also getting approached so many times about "I got hacked, what can I do?" And i always have to tell them "nothing". Maybe this helps spreading awareness. Also thank you for trying to contact Microsoft/ Discord, I really hope they resolve the issue 🙏

[ariojoestar]

Remember guys,
"Epic will never ask for your password"

[Omena]

Discord literally removed the report option for desktop 💀

[ImmortalPaladin]

This actually kind of happened to me: someone from Hypixel said I could have a rank, invited me to their party, and then told me their discord. They then sent me a server, I joined, and then clicked verify, and then realized it was probably a scam, (it was exactly the same as the one in the video, asking for username and email) because I have never seen a verification process like this, and it was for a Hypixel rank, which is very fishy, I didn’t put in my username or email because I don’t know what hackers can do with that nowadays lol

[howaretheygameing]

despite the fact that i consider myself pretty tech savvy i almost fell for this scam and only managed to sus it out because the Microsoft email didn't explain what the code did and so i looked it up.

[CherryCola-ff]

I just lost my five year old Skyblock profile to one of these. 40b networth gone in less than an hour over a small mistake, it can very much happen to anyone, so always be cautious

[BabkaaSheesh]

I just want to thank you as earlier today something identical happened to me. Had I not watched this video before “verifying” my account, would have lead to me being thoroughly screwed. Scared the sh*t out of me when I could relate so closely to the vid. Love your content and what you do, keep it up! ❤

[DailyGameFactory]

I'm incredibly impressed by the effort you've put into this, because just some surface level experience with modern tech support from companies trying to spend as little on these channels as possible makes you understand just how insanely frustrating this is.
Best of luck with it, screw the enshitification of the internet

[alexprogg]

Getting scammed in a game for the first time is a very important life lesson, getting scammed after that is pure stupidity

[LNCyt]

This happened to me like 6 months ago by a verified discord sever but I got my mc account back by signing in Microsoft with my windows key, changing the email back to mine and then kicking the scammers off my account with one of the tools in the Microsoft account then I changed all passwords and haven't had a problem since. But unfortunately it took a while to figure this out and my skyblock account got deleted with 500 plus hours. Hopefully this comment can help you guys out if this happens to you.

[escapegrass]

6:09 “buy human rights” is such an amazing joke