This Minecraft Scam Shocked Me!

Hypixel (a minecraft server for you non minecraft gamers), is filled with the most vile creatures.... scammers! While things are definitely getting better, one of the scams I encountered was something I've never seen before and I dubbed it "the automatic scam". Because it automatically scams you (genius writing I know).

Anyways this minecraft scam isn't solely restricted to Hypixel, in fact it can also be shown as a lunar client scam. Regardless, the scammer promises a free lunar cosmetic item or hypixel ranks and if you fall for the scam, you lose your minecraft account. Tough. And the worst part is the scammer is going to sell it to another loser for like $70, smh my head.

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00:00 - Different Scam Approaches
03:57 - The Devious Scam Website
06:43 - Bye bye website
07:56 - Helpful scam resource

[NoTextToSpeech]

Also! With this scam, sometimes they will just send in a "login with one time code" email which won't have the big PASSWORD RESET words in blue. Regardless, never share codes from an email to someone!

[_Hamster]

The fact that the scam website Rickrolls you when you reload it is downright disrespectful

[ixnoah]

We in the Hypixel Housing community absolutely despise these, they basically butchered the entire system to send custom messages to prevent these annoying scams.

[narwhster]

these scams were actually getting so big in the skyblock minigame that the hypixel server had to add a special npc in the skyblock lobby that explains how they happen and how to avoid getting compromised

[Goddeh]

A scam will always be too good to be true. If you follow that logic, then you will simply become invincible

[HerobrineGaming]

never expected you to talk about hypixel on this channel! Thanks for covering this. It's great to see other creators talking about this massive issue in the hypixel community.

[IndigoPolecat]

Thanks for using your platform to spread awareness on this topic, as someone who manages a discord server that got raided by 1100 of bots trying to phish just yesterday it is absolutely a massive problem.

[andergamez]

As an active Hypixel Skyblock Player since 2019, people tried to get access to my account or items through various means already.
The most menacing I had was an old friend of mine who quit DMing me on discord if he could borrow around 2b worth of items (at the time multiple hundred dollar in irl value). I nearly ended up giving him the items, but what made me suspicious is that his minecraft IGN has changed and he always used to talk about wanting to keep it since he made many friends using that name. I ended up asking him if he remember our good friend XY who we used to play with, and he surprisingly said yes. That name was a completely made up one, so I got out of the scam like last second.

[HuTayo]

Thanks for covering this topic, theres an entire other issue that you may want to cover (if you haven't already) in hypixel as well, where people are nuking discord servers of well known players / well known servers, which removes the vanity link, they will then "snipe" the link and make it an oauth scam server or use it for cheating discords/irl trading

[ImaDoofus]

I remember back in the day before the custom join messages were nerfed because of this. Me my friends would make fake "you got muted" messages and pretend we couldn't see what they were saying 😂

[Kirill]

What they do makes it even worse in some cases, sometimes they've hacked into or have access to a high level account as the one shown in the video with Mvp++ and a black plus, which usually means people tend to trust those users more as having a black plus indicates some level of prestige

[flyinggrass]

there is actually another way to get your minecraft account compromised, the scammer usually approaches you in game and asks if you would like to join a discord server for giveaways (ranks, items etc) and then he invites you to a discord server, but you need to verify that you are not a bot (they say its to make sure you are not an advertisement bot) by clicking a link and clicking a 'yes' button. it doesn't give you any information that you are sending your minecraft account token (token is the same thing as a roblox cookie) to the scammer. after u have clicked the button the scammers have access to your account and you've lost your precious block game items that you worked so hard for.

[denether]

The last thing I’ve ever expected to see on NoTextToSpeech was hypixel housing. I am literally crying right now.

[marilakos]

Thanks so much for covering this, I honestly never expected this type of video from your channel, but i’m glad you posted it because not one but TWO of my friends have gotten hacked exactly like this. It’s really sad to see people losing their accounts because of something dumb like this

[KudaXD]

Thanks for making a video about this. People we're impersonating me on hypixel as "GET YOUR FREE HYPIXEL COINS" or "FREE RANK" and it was so annoying.

[lrxfo]

Finally someone that’s talking about this issue in detail

[QUITTERMAKER]

im an adult and once fell for a steam scam cuz sometimes ppl just catch you on a weird day or whatever. if you’re trusting it’s easy to believe a real person talking to you

[ignitedrowlets]

6:28 wow that's just adding insult to injury

[Skygobrr]

If someone sends a link regarding lunar+ or cosmetics, it is a scam.

As lunar purchases can be gifted directly by putting the username without link.

[xdam]

Me casually being on “Hypickle” and falling for this scam...