Discord's Minecraft Verification Scam!

Discord is filled with scams, but it's not just about Discord. This new Minecraft scam asks you to "verify" your account. If you verify, you get scammed.

Now what actually happens? Well you're asked to join VC with someone in Minecraft because they want to duo with you or help out in a mission. They'll add you as a friend or DM you a Discord server they are on. This scam server has people talking in chat, but you need to validate your minecraft IGN.

How do we verify? Well a cute little discord bot will help us out, just send your in game name, your email, and this weird 6 digit code.

And uhh congrats! You've been hacked and the scammers will take your account. Time to rebuy Minecraft.

LINKS
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Minecraft Transaction ID

SOCIALS
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Discord Server

Twitter

TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - Please give me ur account
04:29 - Getting my Account Back
04:53 - Please Save this Number!

[NoTextToSpeech]

Also another thing. If your Minecraft account is linked to a Microsoft account, you should give the Microsoft support people transaction IDs of any other things you bought from Microsoft on that account.

[SlayzzFPS]

Those "people" in the voice channels are actually just alt accounts that they put there to make the server look lively.

[ars-brms]

ntts casually helping minecraft players to avoid scammers while insulting them a little bit, just like a professional mother

[nightlibra]

I love how microsoft advertised their mojang>microsoft account migration as "more secure", meanwhile these scams with pretty much no chance of recovery are only possible thanks to microsoft

[Vyydeo]

I remember joining a hypixel party with 50+ people and joining their discord server to get my email asked
I immediately left it after I realised it was a scam too quickly

[rdl]

Pro tip: You dont need the transaction ID to recover your account, instead, you tell the Microsoft Support team to revert any email changes. This had worked for me when someone tried to steal my microsoft account for a different game.

[CelestiaKay]

As a Hypixel Player thank you for covering this, THIS IS A PROBLEM, a lot of younger players don't really know better and will lose their account, giving the scammer more accounts to scam with, this is especially damaging as it's commonplace on Hypixel Skyblock, a MMORPG game (Think Runescape or World of Warcraft) so players losing their accounts can mean losing thousands of hours of progress.

Edit: I Quit! 💪🗿

[frkmann]

I'm an idiot. I'm 20 years old and I fell for this. Someone invited me to an smp server and there was the verify thing. There is NO reason they should've asked for my email, but my brain was on autopilot. My brain was turned off. I wasn't thinking. I feel so stupid for this, I've always been cautious about this stuff, I'm a cautious person in general.

[immatys]

The one-time password email should make it VERY CLEAR that it's used to log into your account and you should never share it with anyone else.

[growingup]

I like how the scammers were star struck before freaking out and deleting lol

[DominuxOfficial]

Imagine scammers not having a life, not going outside, not having a job and scam children


Sucks to be a person like them

[paws-at-you]

I've been in hypixel skyblock cheating communities and these are VERY common. ty for spreading awareness

[ACEiCLE]

There is a new discord going around pretending to be Hypixel called "Hypixel Squads"

[Sirtan]

The sad thing about transaction IDs is that a lot of people who bought minecraft in 2014 or longer ago, which now is 10+ years probably did not know the significance of the ID at the time. Now I can't get the code back for reasons with the bank, although I can see the purchase log of the game. I also know of many people who have lost access to their email or bank in some way which made them unavailable to get help when accounts got migrated.

[oDrqgon_Fb]

I legit fell for this after seeing so many videos on how not to get scammed this way I’m legit stupid

[mikey]

3 things:
as a owner of a big minecraft disc server way to many ppl have had there account compromised and it’s mostly younger players

it’s more common for them to use a qr code to get you to login to your microsoft account

most people that are scamming are people that have had there account hacked in the past


the transaction id method does not work anymore with the minecraft accounts being transferred to microsoft accounts. even with all the proof that you were hacked and transaction id all support can do is lock your old account.

[ThatPillow]

Probably worse that this is not just Minecraft, its a entire Microsoft account so thats a lot more

[mutebefehl]

It looks as if this scam is being used more frequently again. I keep hearing about accounts being hacked by this scam.

[ancovek]

Imagine if Discord had been bought by Microsoft back in the day 💀

[cinplux]

These scams are still rampant in the Minecraft Discord server to this day. It fucking disgusts me how vile these people are.