These 6 Discord Scams are EVERYWHERE!

Discord and scams are like peanut butter and jelly. No matter where you are on Discord: femboy hangout servers, genshin impact servers, or the worst of the worst, my server, you will be a target of a scam at some point.

Now unfortunately for the sake of my sanity, there are a lot of very common Discord scams that people still fall for. Like 50% of my DMs are about scams that I have already talked about (it got so bad I just use keyboard macros to copy and paste responses). To save myself, I made a video showing you common discord scams to look out for.

So now whenever someone sends me a DM about a scam, I can just send them this video. HOWEVER, I can't just be selfish about all of this. So uhh, you can also send this to your tech-illiterate Discord friends so they can learn how to not get scammed on Discord!

LINKS
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Steam Help Page

Discord Support Page

How to Clean Install Windows 11

SOCIALS
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Discord Server

Twitter

TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - 1. The oh so common fake nitro bot
02:13 - 2. Fake Verification
05:44 - 3. $50 Steam giftcard
08:00 - 4. Artist / sugar meemaw / psychic / free $3000
10:06 - 5. "I accidentally reported you" / Discord support
15:15 - 6. Download my game / beta tester

[MrCommentGod]

Rule number 1 of the Internet: *don’t click on random links*

[BIoxPixeI]

The irony of discord having so many scams problems and yet they still have that "joins server for you" for bot 💀

[SpeedUpThatComputer]

Rule 1: don't click on random links.
Rule 2: If a friend (or even a stranger randomly sends you anything out of the ordinary such as "i accidentally reported you" report them to discord.

[asteroidrules]

As someone actually into game development, with friends also involved in game development, the "test my game" scam is absolutely the worst. Discord's file sharing was really handy for sending unfinished builds and assets back and forth but now it's so strongly associated with scammers.

[Blakkrazor]

I've had easily a half-dozen people try the "oops, I think I accidentally reported you to Valve/Steam". They crack me up. Every time they claim it's for an exchange made through a game community involving a game I don't even own. Helps to not own any games that allow for player-to-player exchanges of digital goods.

[utFox]

I'm a mod in a server, and the admins above us once thought it would be a great idea for April Fools Day to pretend they got hacked and that the hacker would be sending fake Nitro links, only they would send actual real Nitro. Me and the other mods panicked so hard, trying to figure out how to keep the server safe, and the admins backpedaled really quickly after that

[solarcanic]

General rule for internet scams: if it's too good to be true, it is. Also, if it's banking on a time limit and fear, like the fake report scam, then it's using that to scare you out of thinking straight and into falling for it.

[thebreadnoob]

I'm really disappointed in myself for both falling for the fake nitro and the " I accidentally reported you on steam" scams

[TheZDDD]

"A accidently reported you to discord" -your smart friend

[paul_]

Discord needs to add a banner in dms that says: discord, valve, riot will never reach out to you in dms, ask for personal info or ask you to scan a qr code code. Or sth like this

[SwiGaVR]

Also to add: Discord never answers in less than 2 weeks

[kygigni]

I actually had the "I accidentally reported you" scam. The user then suggested to contact the support and this "support" guy than requested me to change my Email to a specific Email. He also didn't have any moderator badge. It was at that point I blocked and reported him.

[ProjectGaming]

Well I guess it's a modern day miracle because I haven't encountered a fake Nitro bot.

[ThatIcy]

"Butthole jumpscare" was not on today's bingo card lmao

[hundredLeech]

I almost fell for #5 a couple years ago. I was 99% sure it was a scam the whole way through, but I had so little self confidence at the time that I allowed the 1% to drive me until I finally cut the crap at the last possible moment. So glad my confidence has grown since then.

[TheSparkgod]

Someone tried the "i accidentally reported you" scam on me on steam, except it was just some random guy who I'd never talked to previously and didn't have any games in his library. He wasn't very good at the whole scamming thing.

[andre_julius]

Today on another episode of

PLEASE DISCORD, REMOVE THE "JOIN SERVERS FOR YOU" permission...

I can't believe it is still a problem... like when was your first video about this, over a year ago? *sigh*

[killzonefury]

Sometimes I like to entertain these scammers and myself. Acting, questioning, being stupid etc. Really get the most out of their time for nothing while I cut my time and enjoy them trying their maximum to scam me lol.

[Countrydoge]

That game tester scam shocked me, so there was a friend i had which i no longer talked too, and he sent me a file telling me it was a game he created, i just didn't download it because my other friends told me to not do it, this happens probably 2 years ago and this video made me remember that incident, i'm so glad that my other friends told me to not download that file because i was so dumb back then.

[Papaaaa]

10:18 I love how the current Polish president is trying to scam me.