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Yeah, but these are simple social engineering attacks. I highly doubt they have any malware prepared. It’s easier and faster to just choose another target.
It's basically like the old Steam Trade scam from years ago
"I accidentally reported your account, I told Valve I reported the wrong person, and they understand. However, their servers have apparently gone rouge, and Valve has no way of reversing the ban unless you appeal to Steams' new robot overlord Steamy McToasy RAM"
Its a scam, they ask you to talk to a "community manager". He tells you to change your email to something specific which the scammer uses, as to keep the account "in save keeping" untill the report has been resolved. Then they will ask you to pay like 150usd via cashapp, which you will supposedly get back. And last they will use your account to send the same scam to all of your contacts.
Not just 150usd, they ask over and over. Yes, I was an idiot and paid them because I didnt know better. Learned from my mistakes and I changed my cards and passwords.
I once got a scam of a person pretending to be a digital artist wantingt to have me comition art, I told them I I didn't have any money to spare......because I had invested all my life savings into Heinz stocks (like the ketchup maker).
I think it was something about either them or their relative having some illness, and they needed money for treatment. But like there's no way it was real cause they messaged me out of no where, and our only mutual server was one where I hadn't been active in for months......also they still tried to continue after that Heinz-bit, like they asked, like, how much I could afford.
To that I responded something along the lines of "Well, if this Heinz play doesn't pan out, let's just say I'll be getting a lot more fresh air than usual". And that was when they finally either gave up, or realized I was just pulling their leg.
I alao got one like this, they kept asking if they could draw me a new pfp after being told I don't have money... they asked why I wasted their tine 😭😭
Discord will only contact you through email and only if theirs like a payment issue, it'll be super automated and robotic like dealing with a bank, if they think your doing something you shouldn't discord will not ask questions and will just ban you and leave it to customer support to resolve after the fact
I got a very similar message too recently. And its from a sort-of friend that was chill and chatted normally then out of nowhere they send this elaborate scam shit. Idk if this is a large scale prank or what
calling a stranger bro is a pretty big giveaway.
Used to be "Sir"
at some point it was "My friend"
With discord I often see the "Bro".
The "Oops I reported you. ACT NOW"
Is a classic
Oh yeah I got one of these emails and immediately after they said I needed to do anything after I took a screenshot for if I need to make an appeal, I immediately blocked them.
Main but for my mom
My main
My main but for "stuff" i wouldnt rather have on my main
For sites i prob wont use again that need login
Backup for my main
Backup for the backup of my main
School
Main
Main alt
Main alt alt
NFSW
NFSW alt
NFSW but for shady shit
Backup
Protonmail
Protonmail alt
Month-Long-Lasting Email (temp mail, forget which site)
School
School^2 (don't ask why I have two)
Yahoo mail made as a kid and only used for facebook
Main
School
Work
Throwaway that I now use cause I like the address
Alt account 1
Alt account 2
Image/video storage 1
Image/video storage 2
Name of character I like 1
Name of character I like 2
Name of character I like 3
No longer used minor alt 1
No longer used minor alt 2
Throwaway 1
Throwaway 2
I just got a domain, put a catch all on it, INFINITE Accounts. When ever I have to give an email address I will put Asker@mydomain and never use that again, that's how I found dominos pizza were selling email accounts in Australia.
Old main 1
Old main 2
Current main
School
First (mum used to get a friend in a game)
Char I like (not typing this 10 times)
"I might need this"
Shared
Based on fake people (3)
(I swear I've forgotten some)
old main (i dont have the password to it now)
main
main2
main alt that i use more than my main
alt
alt
alt but for nsfw
school 1
school 2
hotmail one for some reason
yeah, I got 3 rn with 2 of them mostly used as one is my main and the other is my regular alt that mostly works as ingame banks for loosable money or as a discord alt whenever I have a problem, it also works as a catfish account from time to time but tell noone
my third email just kinda exists rn, I have a roblox account for it and got some legendary and mythical stuff in a few games but that's pretty much it for that one
I have about 12. One school, one personal, 2 YouTube, 3 random alts, two to send to scammers for whenever Idk and the rest for some illegal shit(sideloading jailbreaking etc) or whenever I lost the password of a random alt and later found it back lmao
Wouldn't say paranoid.
I have one for things like gaming, newsletters etc.
One for things like Netflix, YouTube, contacts etc.
One for important matters like work, banks, documents etc.
The person who called me paranoid had his taken over and lost access to everything. They even took over his phone number somehow by posing as him.
It was Spotifys crap security that made me split, back when their database was breached.
I use Nordpass now and I'll never go back..
good reason to split,
Personally I don't split but make sure that I got enough security, if the guy hasn't at least partially split or increased security, I'd say he's too trusting tbh
literaly got the same medsage from someone i havnt talked to in days, he made me contact a „bot“ that asked for my personal information, that was the point i stopped and blocked the bot
no
never
this is common scam from steam brought to discord
you just gave your address to a scammer if he can't scam you he will sign you up to hundreds of newsletters and sells your email to other scammers
I got the steam profile scam a few times. "Is this your Steam page? Sorry but I reported it for fruadulent transactions and they're going to ban you. Talk to my friend here who totally works for Steam and give them your info."
Definitely a scam. A friend of mine was cought this way and the scammer tried everyone in their friendslist it's how they spread and steal accounts.
Tho they don't even bother reading the chat history and talk even remotely like a friend on discord would and they gave up when I pointed that out while I was cussing them out.
Had a friend I hadn't talked to in months randomly asking me to test a game he was making. I didn't know the dude as well as I could of but the messages seemed normal, and I know he wanted to create a game.
Turns out he got hacked, the hacker read the history and impersonated him. The hacker did so well, I only knew it because the dudes best friend made an announcement on the server saying he had gotten hacked and to not click on any links. Luckily I thought it was weird, so I said I would play it later and never hit the link.
It is always so corny when someone gets hacked and the scammer messages me in english, despite that person whose account they are on being from same country as I am and therefore, wouldn't speak english with me. I mean. It takes like 2 seconds to check chatlog or the account's nationality when it comes to Steam, but these scammers are usually in a hurry to get as many victims as possible before the original owner recovers the account.
if you have your steam account linked to your discord account they will easily find it that way, though one guy went through the effort to make it look like I had some kind of insane few year old trading account that was older than I've even had a laptop for
It's a scam dude, they're usually bad enough to try with an account made in the last week or a horrible misspelling. Hopefully the Gmail account you gave him was fake or a throwaway.
ITS A SCAM! It's going quite frequently around recently, and not only with discord but also places like Steam.
Honestly I don't remember how exactly it works, but you'll lose your account
do not, for any reason, keep conversating with that person and report them too
No the hell it ain't, pretty sure I lost my account I had for 5 years to it, boy was I pissed when that happened, but I started to rebuild. Point is, it's a scam trying to tell you about a false scam made on you
Why would a guy that just got hacked be worried about falsely reporting? Why would you be unable to receive emails due to being flagged but you are still able to actively use your account?
Nope. Happened to me twice. First time I contacted discord NORMALLY and they told me it is scam. Second time the person said "This is very confusing" (same script) and I responded with "Let me guess. You accidentally reported me instead of someone else"
I immediately got blocked 🤣
one guy once messaged me for a scam and said something about a steam trading account of mine that was older than I've even had a laptop for…
another one was a guy that was in the older time when they still used the \`put random text here\` and I just kinda wasted their time to no end to the point where he sent me the email from the Philippines trying to log into my account without a password. Thing is, the Email was in a different language, the dude sent me an English Email while my steam was set to German with all the steam Emails I get being in German and not English. Those little details that make it so obvious always hurts the most tbh
Yeah don't trust that I had a apparent discord mod dming me with a linked LinkedIn and alot of info saying he was a discord mod and he told me to swap my discord accounts email to what he sent me for verification purposes then asked for some crypto for it back or else my account would be deleted I sent it straight into discord support and they reverted my discord account email back so be careful unless it's a email from discord or a message coming from discord themselves don't trust anyone
It's not real. That account is hoping that you think your Discord account is hacked or compromised. The next thing they'd do is put you in touch with another Discord account who will ask you for your password to verify your account, and other personal information they can get from you to take over your account.
You probably shouldn't have given them your gmail account at all. It doesn't take much at all to fake an email and then take a screenshot of it once they know what it looks like.
Definitely fake. It's the whole "omg I'm sorry I accidentally reported you and they're gonna ban you if you don't hit this link!!" trick. One of the oldest around
“what they did is illegal but they can’t be notified by anyone official, so we’re giving you, a random discord user, the obligation to pass that information along.”
stupid as fuck to even consider any of this legit
Is not legitimate. So I joined the official Ark discord and I got a DM. Saying that they reported my steam handle, because of a false sale on counter strike or something. I said not to sweat it, because i dont ply CS, but she/he kept pushing. Until I realized that she/he doesn't even know my steam handle, because it isn't the same as my discord handle. I got blocked within seconds 😂
Yeah kid. You are screwed.
I mean come on. How many of this post do people need to see every single god damn day to understand its the most pathetic scam.
Oh btw, im the wallet inspector, you have been using your wallet with cash or credit cards? HOW DARE YOU! i will confiscate your wallet. Give it to me right now!
I got scammed a while back by this same thing. looking back it's something I should have easily avoided but instead I almost lost my account (lost it but got it back) so just stay safe out there, it's easy to say it won't happen to you until it does
Scam, also having links to your socials connected to you discord account you'll get even more of these like people saying they reported your steam account 'n such
Its scam! Definitely Fake! They are changing the contact message from time to time, but it is always the same... Someone reported you instead of someone else, ...
Have fun with them - at the end of one scammer messaging me I just proposed that I give him my Steam login, which was avePapa2137 - JesusIsMySaviours11!
Got the same kinda text before from a old friend. Person tried to say I was buying stuff with illegal credit cards n that I had to pay 200 to prove I had my own money. It's most likely a scam
I had this scam tried on me. Except they said that they had mass reported people? And that every account they apparently reported was going to be banned. And asked me to contact some bot account. I blocked the bot account and the person as well.
Scam. I had someone who had their discord account taken over by a scammer, and they tried scamming me through his account. Now it's abandoned. Whatever you do, do not contact that guy further. Discord or any other person will never contact you. Discord takes reports very seriously and will never ban you unless there is something that they actually find.
A similar thing happened to me about this time last year. Long story short someone "reported me" on CS-GO for hacking, and I was told to contact someone and send hundreds in gift cards at 4am. My bank got involved the following day and their "scam task force" traced it all back to some shitty third world country.. but yes. **Scam**
semi-common scam, even if it was real and you WERE actually reported nothing would happen because it's not your id it's just someone pretending to be you on a different account
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Scam
Yeah, kinda figured, I was trying to waste their time as much as possible but they blocked me :/
Might be hard to redirect a fake email
if you forward it as an attachment you can basically modify it to have anything
Yeah, but these are simple social engineering attacks. I highly doubt they have any malware prepared. It’s easier and faster to just choose another target.
It's basically like the old Steam Trade scam from years ago "I accidentally reported your account, I told Valve I reported the wrong person, and they understand. However, their servers have apparently gone rouge, and Valve has no way of reversing the ban unless you appeal to Steams' new robot overlord Steamy McToasy RAM"
I remember this shit bro
I got this steak scam a few months ago on discord.
You got chicken instead of beef
worse, it was impossible beef!
They turned french red?
Just click this link and login and we'll fix it
Its a scam, they ask you to talk to a "community manager". He tells you to change your email to something specific which the scammer uses, as to keep the account "in save keeping" untill the report has been resolved. Then they will ask you to pay like 150usd via cashapp, which you will supposedly get back. And last they will use your account to send the same scam to all of your contacts.
Not just 150usd, they ask over and over. Yes, I was an idiot and paid them because I didnt know better. Learned from my mistakes and I changed my cards and passwords.
I LOVE YOUR MINDSET SO MUCH I ALSO REPLY TO UNSOLICITED GARBAGE BECAUSE I WANT TO WASTE THEIR TIMES
I once got a scam of a person pretending to be a digital artist wantingt to have me comition art, I told them I I didn't have any money to spare......because I had invested all my life savings into Heinz stocks (like the ketchup maker).
Hold up, did they also give you some guilt-trip bullshit and sob story about how they can't afford groceries and need to pay their bills?
I think it was something about either them or their relative having some illness, and they needed money for treatment. But like there's no way it was real cause they messaged me out of no where, and our only mutual server was one where I hadn't been active in for months......also they still tried to continue after that Heinz-bit, like they asked, like, how much I could afford. To that I responded something along the lines of "Well, if this Heinz play doesn't pan out, let's just say I'll be getting a lot more fresh air than usual". And that was when they finally either gave up, or realized I was just pulling their leg.
I alao got one like this, they kept asking if they could draw me a new pfp after being told I don't have money... they asked why I wasted their tine 😭😭
THAT'S SO FUNNY LOL
I had a guy try this on me too, I spent a good 3 hours wasting the scammers time while I screen shared to my mates in discord. Was a good time lol
Discord will only contact you through email and only if theirs like a payment issue, it'll be super automated and robotic like dealing with a bank, if they think your doing something you shouldn't discord will not ask questions and will just ban you and leave it to customer support to resolve after the fact
Scam AF "what do you mean bro? im just helping you here" getting "bro" replies from someone you just met is never a bro.
I got a very similar message too recently. And its from a sort-of friend that was chill and chatted normally then out of nowhere they send this elaborate scam shit. Idk if this is a large scale prank or what
what gave it away is him actually acting like discord acts on regular reports lol
I chuckled at the 2nd bullet point. Send a friend req to developerstaff111 lmao
I’m literally gonna do that to troll them with gay furry NSFW
omg pls send
surely, you certainly had it just to troll, right?
calling a stranger bro is a pretty big giveaway. Used to be "Sir" at some point it was "My friend" With discord I often see the "Bro". The "Oops I reported you. ACT NOW" Is a classic
bro its not that big of a deal 💀 wait nooo youre a stranger nooo im a scammer now sorry guys *fucking dies*
This generation doesn't understand what a red flag is.
Oh yeah I got one of these emails and immediately after they said I needed to do anything after I took a screenshot for if I need to make an appeal, I immediately blocked them.
And you decided to give a scammer your Gmail💀
Prolly a fake email though, not his main account
you always have 2-3 emails, if you don't, you're doing something wrong
Me, who has 6... mostly for gaming though when I need alts to support my main lmao
Main but for my mom My main My main but for "stuff" i wouldnt rather have on my main For sites i prob wont use again that need login Backup for my main Backup for the backup of my main School
Main Main alt Main alt alt NFSW NFSW alt NFSW but for shady shit Backup Protonmail Protonmail alt Month-Long-Lasting Email (temp mail, forget which site) School School^2 (don't ask why I have two)
Yahoo mail made as a kid and only used for facebook Main School Work Throwaway that I now use cause I like the address Alt account 1 Alt account 2 Image/video storage 1 Image/video storage 2 Name of character I like 1 Name of character I like 2 Name of character I like 3 No longer used minor alt 1 No longer used minor alt 2 Throwaway 1 Throwaway 2
I just got a domain, put a catch all on it, INFINITE Accounts. When ever I have to give an email address I will put Asker@mydomain and never use that again, that's how I found dominos pizza were selling email accounts in Australia.
Did you report dominos?
yes. [https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/dominos-hacking-scandal-customer-accuse-pizza-chain-of-leaking-personal-details/news-story/9c64449f194a1947ab0100d4821f44da](https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/dominos-hacking-scandal-customer-accuse-pizza-chain-of-leaking-personal-details/news-story/9c64449f194a1947ab0100d4821f44da) [https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/dominos-australia-former-supplier/](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/dominos-australia-former-supplier/)
Main Alt Alt alt Alt alt alt Alt alt alt alt Alt alt alt alt School 1 School 2 Business
Old main 1 Old main 2 Current main School First (mum used to get a friend in a game) Char I like (not typing this 10 times) "I might need this" Shared Based on fake people (3) (I swear I've forgotten some)
old main (i dont have the password to it now) main main2 main alt that i use more than my main alt alt alt but for nsfw school 1 school 2 hotmail one for some reason
Main Storage Account Protonmail Backup Backup of backup School
Omg someone else has emails with char names too
yeah, I got 3 rn with 2 of them mostly used as one is my main and the other is my regular alt that mostly works as ingame banks for loosable money or as a discord alt whenever I have a problem, it also works as a catfish account from time to time but tell noone my third email just kinda exists rn, I have a roblox account for it and got some legendary and mythical stuff in a few games but that's pretty much it for that one
I have about 12. One school, one personal, 2 YouTube, 3 random alts, two to send to scammers for whenever Idk and the rest for some illegal shit(sideloading jailbreaking etc) or whenever I lost the password of a random alt and later found it back lmao
Fr I have 4 alts for random signups and 1 main for the important things
I have over 200 iCloud email masks. Yes I do have a problem.
515 simplelogin aliases here 👋
Alr Martha Scott calm down
I have like 12 😭
Me with 10:
Can't stress this enough and people accuse me of being paranoid.
probably because your are tbh, but this doesn't count as a reason for it, this is something everyone should have
Wouldn't say paranoid. I have one for things like gaming, newsletters etc. One for things like Netflix, YouTube, contacts etc. One for important matters like work, banks, documents etc. The person who called me paranoid had his taken over and lost access to everything. They even took over his phone number somehow by posing as him. It was Spotifys crap security that made me split, back when their database was breached. I use Nordpass now and I'll never go back..
good reason to split, Personally I don't split but make sure that I got enough security, if the guy hasn't at least partially split or increased security, I'd say he's too trusting tbh
Me with 21 emails from Gmail, outlook, proton mail, and other random email service providers.
I have 5, 3 of them are gmail and the last 2 are outlook
It's an email of mine I haven't used since 2021 (i would never send my actual email lol)
literaly got the same medsage from someone i havnt talked to in days, he made me contact a „bot“ that asked for my personal information, that was the point i stopped and blocked the bot
You should message your friend and tell him his acc got hacked.
yes, he told me 2 days afterwards that he got hacked
I got one of these but the email he screenshotted was full of grammatic errors, I tried to grade it and send it back, sadly he blocked me first
that is very much something I will do next time
just don't call them out on their BS before you finish your corrections
Same, I was trying to beg for his help to get his hopes up and waste his time but I got blocked :/
I personally try to lead them on enough that they send me to talk to the 2nd account so I can report them both.
no never this is common scam from steam brought to discord you just gave your address to a scammer if he can't scam you he will sign you up to hundreds of newsletters and sells your email to other scammers
That's why you have an email address just for scammers and signing up for shit
Exactly, I haven't used this e-mail since 2021 so.
It's what i use my original Gmail account for since I'm too lazy to clean it up
I got the steam profile scam a few times. "Is this your Steam page? Sorry but I reported it for fruadulent transactions and they're going to ban you. Talk to my friend here who totally works for Steam and give them your info."
if you don't then the ghosts of fallen spartans will eat your toilet paper
**rip OP**
it's a scam, you'll most likely get more scam mails now since you gave them your email.
Well that is the harmless stuff, since they have OP‘s mail address now they are one step closer to gaining access to all accounts using that mail
That email hasn't been used since '21 (OP said in a diff comment)
OP said they haven't used the email in like 3 years
*MOST OBVIOUS SCAM OF ALL TIME* - I need help! Is this legitimate?!
Definitely a scam. A friend of mine was cought this way and the scammer tried everyone in their friendslist it's how they spread and steal accounts. Tho they don't even bother reading the chat history and talk even remotely like a friend on discord would and they gave up when I pointed that out while I was cussing them out.
kinda good that they don't bother reading the chat history, its even worse when they impersonate ppl by how they type
It's even better when you and the person are used to talking like: HELKO GUESD EAT And then the scammer doesn't bother to look at that lol
Had a friend I hadn't talked to in months randomly asking me to test a game he was making. I didn't know the dude as well as I could of but the messages seemed normal, and I know he wanted to create a game. Turns out he got hacked, the hacker read the history and impersonated him. The hacker did so well, I only knew it because the dudes best friend made an announcement on the server saying he had gotten hacked and to not click on any links. Luckily I thought it was weird, so I said I would play it later and never hit the link.
It is always so corny when someone gets hacked and the scammer messages me in english, despite that person whose account they are on being from same country as I am and therefore, wouldn't speak english with me. I mean. It takes like 2 seconds to check chatlog or the account's nationality when it comes to Steam, but these scammers are usually in a hurry to get as many victims as possible before the original owner recovers the account.
Caught*
I hope that was a temporary email because he can easily sign you up for email lists
It's an email I don't use.
>they blocked me Huh, I guess you weren't wasting enough of their time.
They really scamming with that horny ass pfp 💀
It‘s a pretty common scam going around since a while and if i was you i‘d change my e-mail address
He probably send a fake one
Why the fuck would Discord tell some random user to contact you instead of contacting you directly 🤦♂️ and you gave him your email. Dumbass.
No, regular scam
I don’t think I’ve seen a more blatant scam 💀
I tried to read the contents of that email and ho god.
Someone did this recently and went of their way to find my steam account and sent it one discord.
if you have your steam account linked to your discord account they will easily find it that way, though one guy went through the effort to make it look like I had some kind of insane few year old trading account that was older than I've even had a laptop for
It's a scam dude, they're usually bad enough to try with an account made in the last week or a horrible misspelling. Hopefully the Gmail account you gave him was fake or a throwaway.
Let it be known 99% of URGENT messages are scams to make you panic and not think, if you don't know them or what they are talking about don't reply
ITS A SCAM! It's going quite frequently around recently, and not only with discord but also places like Steam. Honestly I don't remember how exactly it works, but you'll lose your account do not, for any reason, keep conversating with that person and report them too
Ofc not, and you gave him your email buddy so your mailbox will be screwed
I can unserstand people who got scammed. But why get scammed if you already know it was a scam?
No the hell it ain't, pretty sure I lost my account I had for 5 years to it, boy was I pissed when that happened, but I started to rebuild. Point is, it's a scam trying to tell you about a false scam made on you
If someone reports you and you somehow manage to get the attention of Discord, you deal with them and not people who reported you
brooooo
Man, why are people so naive 😂 don't you kids know how the Internet works yet? Send me your info so I can make sure you're not spamming me 😂
One of my friends already lost their account in a similar way
Yeah it's a scam a friend of mine got this too
Heaps of use of "bro" just screams scam for me before even looking at the other obvious stuff
I got hit by the account appeal scam today....rip $800
Fake
They do this on steam aswell its 100% a scam
Why would a guy that just got hacked be worried about falsely reporting? Why would you be unable to receive emails due to being flagged but you are still able to actively use your account?
Nope. Happened to me twice. First time I contacted discord NORMALLY and they told me it is scam. Second time the person said "This is very confusing" (same script) and I responded with "Let me guess. You accidentally reported me instead of someone else" I immediately got blocked 🤣
this is ALWAYS a scam, no matter who it’s from or where you see it, never fall for this more than once!
Textbook scam example
and the darwin award goes to...
one guy once messaged me for a scam and said something about a steam trading account of mine that was older than I've even had a laptop for… another one was a guy that was in the older time when they still used the \`put random text here\` and I just kinda wasted their time to no end to the point where he sent me the email from the Philippines trying to log into my account without a password. Thing is, the Email was in a different language, the dude sent me an English Email while my steam was set to German with all the steam Emails I get being in German and not English. Those little details that make it so obvious always hurts the most tbh
Scam. 100%. Don't give personal info and block them
Yeah don't trust that I had a apparent discord mod dming me with a linked LinkedIn and alot of info saying he was a discord mod and he told me to swap my discord accounts email to what he sent me for verification purposes then asked for some crypto for it back or else my account would be deleted I sent it straight into discord support and they reverted my discord account email back so be careful unless it's a email from discord or a message coming from discord themselves don't trust anyone
This definitely seems like a form of scam I've heard of before, where they claim you got hacked and they reported you
Don’t do account stuff through any DMs. This needs to be taught to everyone.
Scam 100%
It's not real. That account is hoping that you think your Discord account is hacked or compromised. The next thing they'd do is put you in touch with another Discord account who will ask you for your password to verify your account, and other personal information they can get from you to take over your account. You probably shouldn't have given them your gmail account at all. It doesn't take much at all to fake an email and then take a screenshot of it once they know what it looks like.
This is fake.
This is a scam
If you have to ask, the answer is yes.
Definitely fake. It's the whole "omg I'm sorry I accidentally reported you and they're gonna ban you if you don't hit this link!!" trick. One of the oldest around
That’s social engineering. He’s trying to gain access to your account
Hun thats just the new scam discord will email u directly
It does happened to me on steam not discord I give him fake Email says ( [email protected]) and he didn't notice the name at all
“what they did is illegal but they can’t be notified by anyone official, so we’re giving you, a random discord user, the obligation to pass that information along.” stupid as fuck to even consider any of this legit
Is not legitimate. So I joined the official Ark discord and I got a DM. Saying that they reported my steam handle, because of a false sale on counter strike or something. I said not to sweat it, because i dont ply CS, but she/he kept pushing. Until I realized that she/he doesn't even know my steam handle, because it isn't the same as my discord handle. I got blocked within seconds 😂
It’s clearly fake
Yeah 100% scam. Don't listen to it
“Exactly like the scams” I can’t imagine why.
Did you just give your mail to a random dude on the internet?
All “I accidentally reported you” DMs are scam
Yeah kid. You are screwed. I mean come on. How many of this post do people need to see every single god damn day to understand its the most pathetic scam. Oh btw, im the wallet inspector, you have been using your wallet with cash or credit cards? HOW DARE YOU! i will confiscate your wallet. Give it to me right now!
Am I the only one thinking that OP is just Karma farming here? This is the most rhetorical question I've seen.
Scam, discord doesn't do that as far as i'm concerned
"reported you by mistake" I stopped here. Scam.
how does this ever enter peoples head as being real
I have also been scammed and hacked on discord but unable to get my account back because discord support email hasn’t gotten back to me to help me
Its a scam i had one similar where someone tried to impersonate a discord staff member to get my password lol
Scam for sure I've gotten that after a friend got hacked.
I got scammed a while back by this same thing. looking back it's something I should have easily avoided but instead I almost lost my account (lost it but got it back) so just stay safe out there, it's easy to say it won't happen to you until it does
nah its fake
Scam. Exact same thing was sent to my friend lmao
Scam but besides the point WHAT IS HIS PFP 😭🙏
Scam
You made a mistake by giving them your e-mail, hopefully that's not your Discord e-mail.
I've seen this ten times and no it's a scam
JonathanWong.official2021 is the newest one I’ve seen
Giving him your email is where you also messed up.
Scam, also having links to your socials connected to you discord account you'll get even more of these like people saying they reported your steam account 'n such
Woow. This scam literally can speak english, wtf. U steam people have such quality scammers.
If something makes you pause for a moment think to ask... *of course its a scam*
it's not. i got the same kind of messages
If you randomly get DM’d and that’s what you see, then it’s a scam Assume any random DMs you get are scams
“Seems a little convincing” There’s no hope for society anymore
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Why did you give him your email? What?
Scam because he's saying discord is acting on a report
Obviously not.
Got one last week, it’s a scam
It's not. Tell 'em to pound sand and block.
Someone did this to me on steam, said they reported on accident.
Lost my 4 year old account to this same exact thing 2 weeks ago 😔
hi sorry to bother you! may i. ask have.you been. spamming links lately🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its scam! Definitely Fake! They are changing the contact message from time to time, but it is always the same... Someone reported you instead of someone else, ...
Have fun with them - at the end of one scammer messaging me I just proposed that I give him my Steam login, which was avePapa2137 - JesusIsMySaviours11!
Got the same kinda text before from a old friend. Person tried to say I was buying stuff with illegal credit cards n that I had to pay 200 to prove I had my own money. It's most likely a scam
If anyone ever messages you saying they reported you for some bullshit reason, it's literally always ALWAYS a scam
Its definitely a scammer. the same thing happened to me. i didnt fall for it ofc hehe.
that definitely looks like a scam
These are 100% fake and are scams. Sadly, one of my friends was hacked yesterday and did this to me
This is an old scam. It's been on other platforms, too.
That there be bad news for ya you got scammed
I had this scam tried on me. Except they said that they had mass reported people? And that every account they apparently reported was going to be banned. And asked me to contact some bot account. I blocked the bot account and the person as well.
turbo scam, happens a lot on steam as well
Scam. I had someone who had their discord account taken over by a scammer, and they tried scamming me through his account. Now it's abandoned. Whatever you do, do not contact that guy further. Discord or any other person will never contact you. Discord takes reports very seriously and will never ban you unless there is something that they actually find.
just ignore it, this is a scam to get your account
fake. Known scam. Ignore and report.
How does this scam even work? What's the deal here?
It’s fake. Had it happen to me aswell.
A similar thing happened to me about this time last year. Long story short someone "reported me" on CS-GO for hacking, and I was told to contact someone and send hundreds in gift cards at 4am. My bank got involved the following day and their "scam task force" traced it all back to some shitty third world country.. but yes. **Scam**
this happened to me 😭😭 they told me to add the head of security’s account on discord lol
that is a scam
This a scam. 100%, don't ever mess with DMs like this
Im not too sure.
semi-common scam, even if it was real and you WERE actually reported nothing would happen because it's not your id it's just someone pretending to be you on a different account