The Truth about Discord's Loading Image Hack / Scam!

There has been a lot of announcements made by proactive Discord mods that have warned users about a Discord scam that can apparently steal your account just by you clicking on an image. However, is this actually a thing? And if not, is there a scam poses the same risk?

In this video I'm going to clarify the misconception about a Discord scam that can hack your account with one click. And instead of ending the video after 10 seconds, I'm going to spend some time explaining Discord's loading image scam.

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00:00 - Dramatic Intro
00:29 - How it looks
01:15 - How it works
02:57 - How to secure your account
03:35 - TURN OFF SERVER DMS
03:56 - How to tell this is a scam
05:19 - Scammers scamming scammers
07:24 - Conclusion

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[youf.]

btw though i'd let you know since some ppl just say "look for the star in the corner" thinking it has to always be a GIF, sometimes they can use a real image where the format is messed up so it never loads

[sekki]

Just to clarify, because he made that kinda more dramatic than it actually is: If you click on the picture, absolutly nothing happens. If you click on "Open original", still nothing happens. But if you type in your credentials, you messed up.

[alwaysinthedark]

I can't wait until scammers start scamming scammers that are scamming scammers

[NotJaden.]

You can also see a small star in the corner of a gif if you hover over it, good way to see if something is actually an image

[catastrophyte]

Transparency on such scams is important. Of course, people hear "if you click on this image, youll get hacked" and know that cant be true, so they become lax, leaving them vulnerable against phishing scams because they think any and all danger might be inflated. Every wave of hacks comes with a wave of lies on how it operates and its only ever counterintuitive

[fishycraft]

People with light mode:

"" *Sorry, but you have failed* "

[qaxton]

The depth of work you put into your community is amazing. Thank you so much!

[BlackWolfWoof]

Thank you for clarifying this. I have seen a lot of people that didn't explain it right before <3

[ruinsfnbr]

Thanks for going in depth and explaining the true nature and the motives the scam, and explaining it.

[RobloxWithKing]

Discord must hire you as employee the way you find out new scam method and warn users is just insane !

[filip-xzre]

I found this channel like 1 month ago or so and I gotta admit it, it's pretty good youtube channel to be informed about new scam and such
Keep making very useful contents!

[notgaben]

Thank you for this, btw, will you be doing any more tutorials?

[BrainDamageNeko]

The mwah at the end was the most wholesome 2 seconds of NTTS history, love you dude

[TheDanikReals]

People who use light theme (with low brightness) and in the end the picture looks off theme: You cant defeat me

[davie]

Also the star that comes when you hover over a GIF is a dead giveaway that it's a GIF, not an image.

[Yutaro-Yoshii]

This phishing is actually smart and creative. I can imagine myself getting tricked by this. Props to the hackers!

[slyar]

4:05 Another thing, what if you don't even have a "jean serpent"?

[skyswimmer]

Another thing to note, attachments never prompt for login, otherwise they break in Discord itself, so thats another way to recognize a fake login.

[sqrtof]

It should also be mentioned that you'll never be asked to log in to Discord if you try to view an image. The official CDN requires no log in.

[Brisal]

Oh, also. Any picture hosted by the actual discord servers will not give the warning. Only websites that are not trusted by discord will give the warning.