The whole thing falls apart when you consider that if any corporate business thinks you're breaking TOS, they'll just suspend you with a "sorry not sorry" email. They won't ever make you plead your case unless you open up a support ticket after the fact.
This is so true. I had a youtube account (Never uploaded videos, nor shorts, nor comunnity posts and rarely leaved comments) and one day, I wake up just to find out that youtube "BELIEVES" I broke the TOS, so goodbye account until 2029. Just like that, cold turkey and no appeal posibility I can't even look in the homepage if I am logged with that email on a device
Fun fact: this scam and the Nigerian prince scam are actually known as the Spanish prisoner scam. It has been around since before the Industrial Revolution. Look it up on Google.
I was about to fall to that scam. Luckly I knew a specific youtuber who covers most of the common scam types. Totally worth it, thanks for the support! Keep doing your job that's helping tons of people!
You actually saved me from losing my account. This scam was happening to me and I looked up “Discord accidentally reported scam” and knew not to give them anything. Thank you very much
I remember the time I got a scam report on my steam account. I took the liberty to say that I do not own the account. After asking for things for a while, the conversation started derailing towards wanting to speak to the *real* owner of the account. They got very rude towards me since I was allegedly not the owner of the account, and the lines they used was funny. "I don't care about you man, Im here for the owner" and "Are you a teacher?" I forwarded them to my alt and continued to just stall with silly questions.
yeah like a month ago a friend of mine was hacked and I got that "accidentally reported you on steam" message. I learned how to navigate the web safely and recognize scams when I was 9 years old, ain't no way I'm falling for that. next time that happens I'll just reply with "skill issue" and block them
ah, same as me in a a way, one person sended me a photoshopped screenshot of my steam account and it contained my recent purcheses, there was a 5k purchase on a csgo knife(i was banned loooool). I ended up getting scammed cus idk how foolish i was and 2-3 days later steam sent me an email recovering my account and creating a 20 character password lmaooo
Yeah actual steam support is very good and direct. I once got my shit hijacked stupidly from a phishing site very early on in all that nonsense before it was common.. After it happens once your smarter typically. All they did too was try to Idle items on CSGO with an account full of games. lol anyway steam support with some proof gave it back to me after a day or 2.. The shitty par is they spam all your friends the the same links and luckily nobody else clicked them. Ive helped a few people after the situation because I knew what to do.. Steam legally asserts they don't do this but they will, I guess its to keep people from trying to use support to hijack.
I had one of these scammers too. He tried to get me to DM a specific person, but when I suggested to make a group chat with all 3 the dude was saying that it's not possible. Then I asked, "why doesn't he message me directly?" Again, same response. The scammer was saying a cheated him out of money on steam. ***Since when tf do you meet up to make transactions on steam marketplace?***
I want to say Discord would go: "Wtf, there's no record of any purchases made with this account." and not continue with the ban... but knowing Discord I can't say that with 100% confidence.
No offense but I just fell for one of these today aswell 😭 My family members were telling me not to and i ended up falling for it. My friend account was also comedized sadly and now I feel so stupid but lucky i got my account back. From now on ima gonna watch all the scam videos ._. so I'm not stupid to fall for these. That really scared the hell out of me fr
I almost fell for this scam TODAY, but I went to TH-cam to see if I was the only one who has had a problem like this, and low and behold, I found a video from you. You saved my account. Thank you for informing us of this scam; it not only helped me but others as well.
I had no idea this scam existed, i got the msg from someone who i had friended so im assuming they got hacked. Im glad I did my research before having a conversation with them. Tysm for explaining everything in detail because no one else explained it as well as you did
Someone did this to me and went in a vc to check my bank records so they could see that I wasn’t a terrorist, I just started screaming a bunch of random stuff till they blocked me lol
Just because you got scammed by these does not mean you're stupid. People like this like to manipulate people's kindness. It's never your fault for getting scammed
Unless they outright are called scam artist 69420, then it's like, literally in their name, that's like lesson 1, don't trust people with criminal literally plastered in their name. Identity stealer555 is probably going to steal your identity, go figure. The fact i can see this working on people is kinda a problem.
The steam scam I sadly fell for because I was scared of losing my steam account. Which I did lose it because they stole it from me. I had hundreds of dollars worth of games, had to make a new steam account. Though I did learn my lesson, and I'm glad your shining more light onto these situations. Hope the scamming gets taken care of somehow! EDIT: I got the account back!! :D
@@Gargolda7200 My dad who's quite a genius figured out how to get it back for me before it was fully stolen, at the time I thought it was fully gone but now it's still in my hands safely.
A few years ago one of those guys got into my account, but I got it back. If you file a support ticket on steam's official website, they will verify you are the real owner by asking you what card you used to buy games on the account.
i blocked the scammer, they ask you to change your email to the "discord domain" and if you do then they'll log you out lucky enough for me i didnt click anything@@Xsdrafim
Server bans where/are IP bans. A Friend banned me from his Server and I could not join the Server with my alt. Or new Accounts created in a different Browser, so no cookies or fingerprinting. After he unbanned I could join with all Accounts.
Holy shit! Thank you for this video. It helped me when I thought I lost everything. I legit bawled my eyes out and pulled out hair. Until I found your video and I went through the support with the help of some friends. So thank you once again
@@Hells_Avalanche yup! I sent it around 7am CST and got it back only a few hours later. Honestly I thought I was able to get into it because I had my phone number linked, but it was Discord's doing and I appreciate how fast they took action.
@@iconsumelead damn I wish mine was going that well I made a ticket the night that it happened which was around Friday night, they got back to me a couple days later saying they're going to escalate my ticket so the team can look into it further, And that was 3 days ago now and I haven't heard anything back yet
@@Hells_Avalanche also I suggest you give the email and username of the person who hacked. That's what I did, only as a precaution. In case they needed that to help locate and find my account.
@@iconsumelead Damn, wish my case was going that well. I made a support ticket on the night it happened, Friday night, took them a about a day to reply, in which they said they'll escalate my ticket and get back to me, and this was 3 days ago now, and if they ask for any additional info, I can give it, if you have any other suggestions, lemme know
my friend got the steam scam and today i got it on discord from one of my friends, i block the mand reported them but i changed the passwords and such to be safe
Oh god yes. Ive got one too - went away pretty fast after I not so nicely told him Im very much aware what bs they try to pull - and IF Steam Support has beef with me, they kindly can contact me xD
@@Moon-wolf0806my friend had the steam scam work on them but they got into their account with a passkey and so they were able to use steam with the hacker still on their account. They only noticed once they saw random people on their block list. It was confirmed when I got the “hey can I talk to you” message.
Thats exactly what happend to my friend that got hes account scammed and that person took it over and exactly said that he feels sprry he reported me accidentely💀😭
This is also a good time to comment that this scam has since improved, with the grammar being proper (for rthe most part) and the spelling is correct. The hacked accounts are no longer using the threat of “IP banning” (which doesn’t exist on Discord). In previous incarnations the scam had poor grammar, poor spelling, and threaten to IP Ban the target. One of the artists I commissioned had their account hacked today.
You're a deadass lifesaver. As I was about to get hacked, my friend sent me this video right as I was gonna tell him my credidentials. (discord ticket, date of birth, etc etc)
My best friend got one of those "I reported your Steam accout" messages once and he decided to troll and waste their time. He was instructed to message a different person and so he took his second account to make it look like the account he was supposed to contact and messaged "oh yeah everything is resolved" from there and sent a screenshot of that conversation to the scammer lol
I actually had one of these scams a couple days ago while I wasn't sober. Luckily I had enough critical thinking skills to realize why am I messaging steam customer support on discord and then blocked the guy.
I’ve fallen to a discord report scam and my account was lost, I saw this video just now, but now I know, I have always been very aware of scams but the discord one is probably the most believable one for me as I don’t know how discord contacts people, WATCH OUT FOR THESE ONES PEOPLE!
Thank you so much, no text to speech! I almost fell for one of these. I was a kind of skeptical of what was going on, so i searched and found this video confirming my suspicion. Its a bit different then it is in this video, but the beginning and messaging someone is the same.
I dealt with this today on my discord. In my defense, I was tired after a job interview and a terrible night for not recognizing this shit right away. But when he asked to change my account's eMail, I got suspicious and looked him up. I blocked and reported right away after finding a reddit entry about this whole scheme. Warned my pals about it as well, just in case they were friends with that same account that approached me. I don't really use steam, so this was the first time for me that I saw this scheme.
Someone i know irl actually fell for this type of scam earlier this week. I'm honestly sort of baffled that some people genuinely do fall for this. Its not like they're a kid either, they a full grown IT major ;;
Emotions are very irrational thing and scammers take advantage of it. Also, if someone’s less than sober, makes it easier for them to fall for those things. So please TF don’t judge.
working for discord AND valve at the same time must be super hectic. imagine getting thousands of user reports from discord and millions of "please help, my TF2 chat doesnt work but i spent enough money" reports every day
I got one of these messages while I was in Hawaii, I screwed around with the scammer for a solid hour and a half while i was flying between Hilo and Honolulu. Took everything to not laugh my ass off on that plane
@@TheDarkCeratosaurus Same i was literally crying because i thought my discord account would be banned.. then i realized.. why has someone i havent spoken to in 2 years saying this..?
Someone who was in a server I’m in messaged me about it, we weren’t close although the discord is still sometimes active for short periods of time, fortunately I found the video and didn’t make it past the I understand part
Omg, I almost got scammed like this the same way, luckily I didn’t fall for it since it seemed already to fishy when the person said they supposedly confused me with someone else that they were trying to report instead. It’s literally so super rare to confused people’s usernames in discord..
18 hours of talking to this scammer and they finally gave up. Some of them these days will not stop 'till they get your money or steal your account. Some highlights from this *fun* activity was from the scammer: "Ma'am are you on something?" and "Just change the god damn email already or your account will be deleted" in which I responded: "Nah I'm good, I think I need a new account anyway" so they said "Fk off" and blocked me. Around an hour after this came out, my friend said: "Hey Bro, Watch this NTTS video" and that led me to this video, less than 4 hours later another friend messages me with this same scam. I said to them: "Why should I contact discord support?" then they responded: "Youll get ur account daledted if u don't", I then went to correct them and say: "I'm all good bro, this account is getting pretty old anyways". Great vid bro!!! I emailed the email some weird stuff and reported them! Cya!
I fell for this yesterday. This is partially my fault because i thought this was real and not some sort of fake account. When me and my friends did research we realized that this was a scammer. Thank god for business and retail classes
I fell for this today, but I got all the info of the guy, multiple screenshots and username evidence to prove my case and hopefully get my account email put back into the email of my account, and get my account back by getting the guy who compromised my account locked out.
I did fall for this, luckily I gained common sense when they asked for $100, shockingly enough they said sorry when I told them they were a scam and was willing to give me the account if I gave them the money (I still don't think they're sorry, though) instead of a corporate manager or something though it was a person pretending to be a bot. I reported this to discord asking for my email to be reverted, still haven't gotten an answer.
@@Gargolda7200did you get an answer yet? I just fell for this I’ve been travelling for hours and couldn’t think straight 😭 I just want my account deleted so they can’t look at my messages
so glad you made this video. as soon i saw the guy wanted me to change my email, i was suspicious. Looked the guy up saw the real linkdin and then saw this video. blocked him and my friend's account removed me
My gf nearly fell for this scam on steam a while back. It took me a while trying to explain that it was probably a scam because no report system would work like that, before I gave up and googled it, reading out a script that almost perfectly mirrored what the guy was telling her. Anyhow, point being she is very trusting, and is most familiar with the 'he said, she said' model of moderation. So I wonder if a part of why people fall for this is just that they're of that same era, where half a dozen mods could run the largest forums on such a basis.
Interesting thought. I think back to games like Runescape where the player mods and even the official Jagex mods were just normal people walking around in-game and talking in chat. You’re probably on to something - familiarity with that style of moderation could lead someone that isn’t very computer-savvy with the modern era of support to believe that someone might just PM you with official business. I’ve never considered that before, very interesting thought!
oh my god thank you lol, i almost fell for it because i used to be a mod for a game server where people would often get scammed by losers and so i really thought they accidentally reported me for scamming instead of someone else. thank you!!
Thanks for posting this! A friend of mine got their account hacked and their account tried this scam on me. I clicked the e-mail message and immediately noticed the word salad...which was EXACTLY how this "friend" was talking to me and I said "This e-mail is fake. The grammar is terrible. No company would write this way." and blocked them. I was then a smidge worried that just opening the image in my browser might have given me malware so I Googled for more info about the scam and found this! PHEW! Thank goodness. I completely missed the "add Mike as a friend" part. That and I missed them when they first sent me the scam and they got back to me the next day so the "YOU ONLY HAVE 24 HOURS!!!" thing also tipped me off because it has been more than 24 hours. Anyway, thanks for the info on the latest scams. EDIT: Oh and why do people fall for these scams? Add "English is not their first language" to the list. I DO have one actual friend who kinda talks like these scammers, which made me believe the scammer's word salad but NOT the E-Mail's word salad.
1. Act suprised 2. Agree to add "Support member" to your friends 3. Do some small talk 4. Send them the grossest image you can find in google - like dog excrements or fungal infection 5. Watch their pain and disgust and get blocked by scammer. 6. ??? 7. Profit
Yay! I get 3 cookies! Got messaged by one of these that had taken over a friend's account on 1 November and responded with "I've not had a ban email from discord so... oh well" I think a friend fell for the steam version of this account a few years back but thankfully got access again. Thank you for raising awareness of this!
I fell for the Steam Report scam and was able to get the account back through contacting the ACTUAL support team. It is possible to recover from these scams, but it is annoying. (Also, I had to dm a lot of friends to clarify that I had not, in fact, reported them and that I was hacked.)
@@zatannavolkoff Yeah it texted some of my Steam friends the same thing it texted me. While I didn't have access, I contacted Steam Support to get it back while I told my Steam friends on Discord to not trust what I say on Steam until I have my account back.
Had this almost happen to me. Thankfully, I closed out and blocked them before any damage was done to my account. I almost screwed myself. This video is great information I wish I knew last time. Thank you!
I'm surprised none of my friends know about your channel. this is the second time I had to warn them that it was a scam. once was my closer friend and the other got it today so that's fun (/sar)
This very much is exactly like Steam Support Scam (minus Steam of course). It's funny that I would get messages like that every now and then and proceed to call them out time and time again before they block me (then I report them). Most likely because I have items on TF2 that I guess people really wanted. Never ceases to amaze me.
if screenshots were not a thing. Also real dsc agent can see what has been sent and deleted on any account, they have no encriptions on any end, spoiler sorry.
@@TT-fy6hkscreenshots can be easily faked. + There was this whole thing with reports being denied when the user couldn't give the discord staff a message link and it also being denied when the message is deleted.
@@TyricSatyric Yes and no, unless he publicly states he is using it nothing will happen. He can however, copy the message link and report it even when the message was deleted since all voice messages, voice calls and chats are logged on the discord system for official Discord staff team that can pretty much read the whole conversation.
Me too. I lost my account in 2020 because I didn't give them ID, so I panicked. I also just woke up after staying up until 3 AM, so I wasn't being rational.
thank god I searched for this video. The guy said the EXACT same words as in this video. This video is a perfect representation of what happened to me. PS: I told him "ur scamming me" and he instantly blocked me
This literally just happened to me lmao I thought it was sus from the get go but since I was just about to get to bed but the fact they wanted me to change my email address was the point where I looked it up and found out it was a scam Really dodged a bullet there
nah cuz i almost fell for it too but when they asked for my card i told them a rando bank and kept replying w/ "hold on" since I remembered I had stupidly gave my email to them 💀 but i still have my account since i changed the email and deleted the one i had told them
Almost fell for this today until I saw this after searching for discord scams thank you so much I cannot thank you enough for this. If I had not have seen this video I would’ve lost my account today so thank you.
I saw some idiot fall for this on my server. Worst part is... the scammer didn't just use their account to scam other, they didn't just buy nitro with the account. The scammer full on blackmailed this user into giving a TON of money on paypal (friends and family) in exchange for giving the account. They, obviously, did not give the account back.
I literally came from being almost scammed by the "same" person, I gave him the money, but due to errors, the payment could not be made thanks to an option that I was missing, "friends and family", only for that reason he did not take the money. Pls be careful on discord.
OMG I GOT THIS BY ONE OF MY "BEST FRIENDS" AND I WAS SO SCARED AND I JUST ENDED UP BLOCKING THEM MY HEART IS RACING BUT YOU JUST MADE IT GO DOWN TY SO MUCH I LOVE YOU FOR THIS
This just happened to me today! I was lucky that I started to suspect the moment they asked for my birthday and country. I gave them fake data, and then they kept going with asking me to change my email. I replied sending them this video and they blocked me. Not before I managed to preach about Jesus (just to mess with them) XD Thank you very much for preventing this malicious things to happen to more people! 🙏
I always secretly hope that they one day reach out to me so I can waste their time. They're always so horribly gramatically incorrect that it's entertaining. I still have this line saved from back when the Steam scams were popping off: "keep in mind that the you're the recent steam user that I have received in my coordinator review panel about illegal activity for illegal purchasing and scam attempts."
I recently fell for this scam. Swindled $700 out of me and I feel guilty that I didn't catch the signs. Now I probably won't be able to get my mom anything for Christmas...
Almost got scammed as well today. For you people who got this fishy scam thingy, first thing what i learned is.. Don't panic, take your time to breath and think rationally. Ask some random question to search for more of this suspicious message. They told me they got scammed yesterday and just made an alt acc to messaged me, but that "alt acc" was made a year ago. 🚩 Sec, someone won't just tell you that they got scammed and apologize to you for accidentally reported you, then give random screenshot of supposedly be Discord team response. Plus, funny thing is the screen shot of the reply is to email to some random username with tags than Official Discord acc. And one thing is that is basic, DON'T EVER EVER click random link given by some someone in internet, even your close contact since they might also fall or parted in it. Hope it helps ❤
The most unlogical thing is that i have to prove my inoccense in this. The Reporter has to proove that you committed something since they would be TOO lazy to do that
"how do people fall for this? cuz they're [throws insults]" bucko, this mentality is toxic. people fall for this for a variety of reasons. sometimes it's just plain stup!dity but try telling that to someone horribly depressed because they've gone through the worst situation in their entire life and it's just dragging on and on by others outside their control and discord is the primary way they keep in touch trying to stay sane with their friends during a global [incident] where most hangouts are online and see if they actually want to wake up the next day.
@@sugarglobe7993 I appreciate you caring 💚 It did. My steam account, one of those "I reported you by accident" scams. I realized after giving them too much information that it was a scam. they only got the account temporarily locked/banned or something and the ACTUAL steam support got it reinstated. that was june 2021. life is a rollercoaster but I am MUCH better now than I was then.
I fells for it because I had seen discord stuff bans people for no reason several times to the point that I can't even identify if they're even scammer or not
@@donaldnemesis393 I'm sorry about that. I hope that experience helped you to know/learn to be more cautious and ask more questions before going along with something. It's never good or fun but if we learn from it, that's the important thing.
@@sugarglobe7993 Hey, I had replied to you but I guess it never went through. I very much appreciate your concern, it means a lot that someone cares 💚 Yes, it was the Steam one. I was in a very very terrible headspace at the time and that message was a "omg great what now" kind of thing. despite numerous red flags, I didn't realize til it was nearly too late. thankfully, actual Steam staff were able to recover it and in all honesty, I probably hugely overreacted. as for the life stuff, I got through it as well better than it could've been but it's one of those I'd like the ability to erase from memory/existence.
GODDD this brings back PTSD from march this year, when i was scammed like this i was able to get my account back, but not my money. stay safe out there and never ever give out your card details to strangers no matter how trustworthy they say they are
There’s a very low chance that discord support will actually help you. My friend got hacked (he’s stupid) and discord gave him the run around for like a month before deleting his account
Late, but a buddy of mine got hacked also. Once his account got hacked, it sent invite links to "leaked tik toks" with the server picture of an ass cheek. Quickly i realized something was up and called him lol
I actually fell for a Steam version of this. I managed to recover my account due to quick thinking and immediate response to the situation, but didn't realise it was a scam until too late.
I fell victim to this...and lost my account...I change my Gmail to their fake safety one. And when I made the back up account they told me I needed for just in case I lost my account. They asked for money and that's when I knew I got screwed there. And now the scammer has my account...
I mean if Discord was more clear regarding account issues by having a single location (separate from DM's) and never used DM or email to contact you about this (and made this clear), these scams would be a lot more obvious.
I almost fell for this steam scam 3 months ago. The red flags in the convo were that I sold a $1500 CS-GO skin on Steam Market place. If I had that sorta money I wouldn't even be playing CS-GO in the first place. 😂
The reason why most of them use code blocks is so that when you report the message it will not be the same as reporting a nomal one. So most of the cases the discord staff will assume it's nothing too bizare so they (most of the time) will do nothing about it. For example you can see when Mike sent the first message, and then when he sent the second one (which was the scam part) he wrote it in codeblocks.
although its an old scam it seems to be a tricky one. if you arnt familiar with it this will make you sweat, as they state a time limit they create a sense of urgency to mess up your rational thinking. I think its important for everyone to follow people on youtube that will point out these type of scams. although I'm talking about a variation of the one that my friend got. the only reason my friend dodged this scam is because I vaguely remembered the linkedin profile thing. I had to search for this video lucky I found it in time. also because im on edge I told my friend to contact discord through the website directly(not clicking any links). but its actually a tricky one for people that don't follow these kind of youtube channels.
Someone I knew got hacked and sent me one of these messages. Im so glad I saw this video or I would’ve fallen for it! Stay safe and away from scams everyone
This is bringing me PTSD from the time I fell for the Steam version of this exact scam. My dumbass forgot that Steam would never contact you on discord, but on the bright side, I at least learned my lesson.
@@Tas_Real How do you manage in these days of age to fall for a scam when you can just search it up on youtube and first any company will say to you:"None of [your platform here] will contact you in any matter" Or you actually didn't read those, read what company tells you to not do they're telling you this for a reason...
I receive alot of this steam scam messages and I don’t remove my steam - discord connection on purpose because I actually enjoy messing with these scammers. Once I played a scared girl, the other time i Rick rolled them and another time I made them click on a short url with an ip grabber behind it. I always check beforehand from which server they found my account and then report them to the server mods, which are always thankful for that. It’s funny tho, because it’s literally always the same bs they are trying 🤭
Reposted comment on other video! They did this to my 13 year old sibling, but now here’s the major major problem. They got onto a call with her, and manipulated her into showing inappropriate things and screenshotted them, telling her that her account will be deleted or whatever if she didn’t do more, this literally happened two hours ago. The account was Allison Wang. They have inappropriate pictures of my sister, and private information of my family since we use discord to chat. We need to somehow find this person and put them in jail because now they have cp. I haven’t seen any other comments on ANYONE else’s videos that had a similar situation to this. So we are spooked, scared, and angry. If anyone has any idea what to do, please tell me. We contacted discord twice already about getting the account back but the email my sister used somehow disappeared off the face of the internet, and her password was changed, so we cannot get into her account. We are more worried about the fact this random person, most likely adult, now has photos of my underage sister. We need to figure out who these scammers are and take them down because in my eyes, they are evolving, they are taking advantage of minors by telling them “we need a Face ID to match your account” then telling them to remove clothing. This needs fixed. Pronto.
oh my word...I just fell for the same scam, and I can't log into my account any longer. Did you contact the support desk (the real one)? I truly hope you can find justice for this. I'm horrified.
Well as far as I know, discord hasn't actually specified whether or not they do. It still seems like the most logical thing, I couldn't think of another reason
@@YoikySploiker Right but my point was that *even if* discord does scan messages, there is precisely nothing special about code blocks that would make them invisible to discord's scans. So your claim that this is the "most likely" reason is just overconfident nonsense that is clearly false if you think about it for more than two seconds.
Throwing my two cents in here - they most likely use it because it’s strange looking and stands out, especially if you’re not a programmer or don’t know what code blocks are. It also looks a little bit official by the way it’s in monospaced font - like the text is coming directly from some developer’s console somewhere. At least as far as a basic subconscious connection might go anyways. Basically I think they’re counting on certain people seeing the code block text and confusing it for some kind of official or important message. And I bet that works to a degree - if you’re trying to determine whether or not something is sketchy, something like that might be all you need for your brain to go “okay, this is probably normal enough, I can stop thinking about this now”
Had this happen to me a few months ago, only they insisted they reported my nonexistent Steam account XD Then said I had to add some Steam mods on Discord, and were not able to say why , since A. I have to do it since they could just file another report or reach out to the support team they were already talking to B. How the person being reported is a lot less trustworthy in this scenario than the person who originally reported them.
Thanks for this to the new discord users! When I was new to discord, I actually fell for this. I happened to get all the way to the part where this fake Kevin Hanaford asked me for 500 dollars for helping my account be given back. Luckily, I finally asked someone that I know what to do. And I was able to save my account. So yeah. I guess I am a "Skibidi toilet kid." I'm not that youuunnnggg!!! Keep yourself safe on discord! :,)
In December 2022, I was approached by that scam and almost lost my account. Thankfully some red flags caught my attention and I backed off and blocked the guy. But that was one of the scariest days of my life.
I just fell for this, I feel so dumb. I found this video after it happened. I got scared, now my account of four years is gone. It was a bit different than this but the same general idea. I feel awful and I know I can't get it back, it's so frustrating.
me too :( I've had my account for 4 years too--and I fell for this. I sent a report to the discord help desk and I hope they can recover my account for me. Let me know if you get it back.
If you know about Steam Support scams (e.g. "I accidentally reported you"), then this is pretty much the same thing minus Steam
yeah
i literally messed around some of that idiots time for like an hour and a half
Someone did this, on a french server… and he started in english
Yea i fell for this good thing i forgot my password and my dad came save the day (i was kid)
Legit, the first thing on the steam support page is a warning about this scam. lol
The whole thing falls apart when you consider that if any corporate business thinks you're breaking TOS, they'll just suspend you with a "sorry not sorry" email. They won't ever make you plead your case unless you open up a support ticket after the fact.
This is so true. I had a youtube account (Never uploaded videos, nor shorts, nor comunnity posts and rarely leaved comments) and one day, I wake up just to find out that youtube "BELIEVES" I broke the TOS, so goodbye account until 2029. Just like that, cold turkey and no appeal posibility
I can't even look in the homepage if I am logged with that email on a device
fun fact: discord support was scammed more times than it did scam others
Fun fact: this scam and the Nigerian prince scam are actually known as the Spanish prisoner scam. It has been around since before the Industrial Revolution. Look it up on Google.
I got that Message today what do I do
@@Twilight19sparkleblock and u r fine
knowing this is funny
@@Twilight19sparkle waste their time and don’t fall for it
I was about to fall to that scam. Luckly I knew a specific youtuber who covers most of the common scam types. Totally worth it, thanks for the support! Keep doing your job that's helping tons of people!
I felled for the email because it was my friend that I knew really well
same my friend helped me find this vid
You actually saved me from losing my account. This scam was happening to me and I looked up “Discord accidentally reported scam” and knew not to give them anything. Thank you very much
Same here
samee.he said me and my parents will get arrested if i dont.searched it up and found this.life saving truly
DUDE THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOW
i got saved from this too just now
I fell for it but i fixed it and now all i have is just limited access for a while
I remember the time I got a scam report on my steam account.
I took the liberty to say that I do not own the account. After asking for things for a while, the conversation started derailing towards wanting to speak to the *real* owner of the account. They got very rude towards me since I was allegedly not the owner of the account, and the lines they used was funny. "I don't care about you man, Im here for the owner" and "Are you a teacher?"
I forwarded them to my alt and continued to just stall with silly questions.
yeah like a month ago a friend of mine was hacked and I got that "accidentally reported you on steam" message. I learned how to navigate the web safely and recognize scams when I was 9 years old, ain't no way I'm falling for that. next time that happens I'll just reply with "skill issue" and block them
ah, same as me in a a way, one person sended me a photoshopped screenshot of my steam account and it contained my recent purcheses, there was a 5k purchase on a csgo knife(i was banned loooool). I ended up getting scammed cus idk how foolish i was and 2-3 days later steam sent me an email recovering my account and creating a 20 character password lmaooo
Yeah actual steam support is very good and direct. I once got my shit hijacked stupidly from a phishing site very early on in all that nonsense before it was common.. After it happens once your smarter typically. All they did too was try to Idle items on CSGO with an account full of games. lol anyway steam support with some proof gave it back to me after a day or 2.. The shitty par is they spam all your friends the the same links and luckily nobody else clicked them.
Ive helped a few people after the situation because I knew what to do.. Steam legally asserts they don't do this but they will, I guess its to keep people from trying to use support to hijack.
I have had that happen too
I had one of these scammers too. He tried to get me to DM a specific person, but when I suggested to make a group chat with all 3 the dude was saying that it's not possible. Then I asked, "why doesn't he message me directly?" Again, same response. The scammer was saying a cheated him out of money on steam. ***Since when tf do you meet up to make transactions on steam marketplace?***
I want to say Discord would go: "Wtf, there's no record of any purchases made with this account." and not continue with the ban... but knowing Discord I can't say that with 100% confidence.
That's why you want to go with a chargeback first
discord just want money so they wouldn't care
well ofc they wouldn't because it's all fake
I fell for it. I realised when i saw your video in my feed. I feel so stupid for falling for it so yeah... Please shed more light on this scam...
Same man, they really scared me
No offense but I just fell for one of these today aswell 😭 My family members were telling me not to and i ended up falling for it. My friend account was also comedized sadly and now I feel so stupid but lucky i got my account back. From now on ima gonna watch all the scam videos ._. so I'm not stupid to fall for these.
That really scared the hell out of me fr
I feel your pain right now.
@@TwinLizzhow long did it take for you to get your account back i fell for it like an idiot and now im worried
@@chevellerubel 1 hour surprisingly and don’t say your a idiot.
I almost fell for this scam TODAY, but I went to TH-cam to see if I was the only one who has had a problem like this, and low and behold, I found a video from you. You saved my account. Thank you for informing us of this scam; it not only helped me but others as well.
Same omg 😭
Yikes
just happened to me , found this video sent it to the 2 people and then they both blocked me too funny.
I had no idea this scam existed, i got the msg from someone who i had friended so im assuming they got hacked. Im glad I did my research before having a conversation with them. Tysm for explaining everything in detail because no one else explained it as well as you did
Someone did this to me and went in a vc to check my bank records so they could see that I wasn’t a terrorist, I just started screaming a bunch of random stuff till they blocked me lol
NTTS is very close to revealing his full appearance by describing it very well 😂
we need a face reveal
Agree
@@_tr11the scammers will go punch him in the nuts!!
@@Rolltheredshow me
@@_tr11he already did before i think
Just because you got scammed by these does not mean you're stupid. People like this like to manipulate people's kindness. It's never your fault for getting scammed
This
Atleast don't do the same mistake again, or you'll be **really** stupid
Unless they outright are called scam artist 69420, then it's like, literally in their name, that's like lesson 1, don't trust people with criminal literally plastered in their name. Identity stealer555 is probably going to steal your identity, go figure.
The fact i can see this working on people is kinda a problem.
I nearly fell for it.
you fell for this scam lol
The steam scam I sadly fell for because I was scared of losing my steam account. Which I did lose it because they stole it from me. I had hundreds of dollars worth of games, had to make a new steam account.
Though I did learn my lesson, and I'm glad your shining more light onto these situations. Hope the scamming gets taken care of somehow!
EDIT: I got the account back!! :D
Today It happens to me too and I already watched the video too
Did you submit a report to steam?
@@Gargolda7200 My dad who's quite a genius figured out how to get it back for me before it was fully stolen, at the time I thought it was fully gone but now it's still in my hands safely.
A few years ago one of those guys got into my account, but I got it back. If you file a support ticket on steam's official website, they will verify you are the real owner by asking you what card you used to buy games on the account.
Bless you laddie
had one of these in my DMs and well did some searching, found this video and it saved me having to deal with getting my account back
cheers man
Were you hacked from this scam?
i blocked the scammer, they ask you to change your email to the "discord domain" and if you do then they'll log you out lucky enough for me i didnt click anything@@Xsdrafim
Thank you for making this video. Almost fell for this one but I did research to make sure it was a scam and this video popped up. Saved my account!
The first mistake of the scam is saying you'll get IP banned when Discord don't even have IP ban. F to the people who fell for this.
Proof?
They actually do. Cloudflare can IP ban you.
@malwarehub2198 i mean proof that discord doesnt have ip ban
@@David280GGdiscord DOES have IP ban, they just rarely use it.
Server bans where/are IP bans. A Friend banned me from his Server and I could not join the Server with my alt. Or new Accounts created in a different Browser, so no cookies or fingerprinting.
After he unbanned I could join with all Accounts.
Holy shit! Thank you for this video. It helped me when I thought I lost everything. I legit bawled my eyes out and pulled out hair. Until I found your video and I went through the support with the help of some friends. So thank you once again
So you got your account back? I'm going through it right now because I fell for the bs
@@Hells_Avalanche yup! I sent it around 7am CST and got it back only a few hours later. Honestly I thought I was able to get into it because I had my phone number linked, but it was Discord's doing and I appreciate how fast they took action.
@@iconsumelead damn I wish mine was going that well
I made a ticket the night that it happened which was around Friday night, they got back to me a couple days later saying they're going to escalate my ticket so the team can look into it further, And that was 3 days ago now and I haven't heard anything back yet
@@Hells_Avalanche also I suggest you give the email and username of the person who hacked. That's what I did, only as a precaution. In case they needed that to help locate and find my account.
@@iconsumelead Damn, wish my case was going that well. I made a support ticket on the night it happened, Friday night, took them a about a day to reply, in which they said they'll escalate my ticket and get back to me, and this was 3 days ago now, and if they ask for any additional info, I can give it, if you have any other suggestions, lemme know
The moment it went to "I acededantly reported your account" I instantly had flashbacks to the steam account scam.
my friend got the steam scam and today i got it on discord from one of my friends, i block the mand reported them but i changed the passwords and such to be safe
same
Oh god yes. Ive got one too - went away pretty fast after I not so nicely told him Im very much aware what bs they try to pull - and IF Steam Support has beef with me, they kindly can contact me xD
@@Moon-wolf0806my friend had the steam scam work on them but they got into their account with a passkey and so they were able to use steam with the hacker still on their account. They only noticed once they saw random people on their block list. It was confirmed when I got the “hey can I talk to you” message.
Thats exactly what happend to my friend that got hes account scammed and that person took it over and exactly said that he feels sprry he reported me accidentely💀😭
This is also a good time to comment that this scam has since improved, with the grammar being proper (for rthe most part) and the spelling is correct. The hacked accounts are no longer using the threat of “IP banning” (which doesn’t exist on Discord).
In previous incarnations the scam had poor grammar, poor spelling, and threaten to IP Ban the target.
One of the artists I commissioned had their account hacked today.
You're a deadass lifesaver. As I was about to get hacked, my friend sent me this video right as I was gonna tell him my credidentials. (discord ticket, date of birth, etc etc)
This video genuinely saved my account. Thank you. They have updated the scam.
Honestly me too. I think I *almost* fell for it. There was no email shenanigans or anything, just my country and birthdate and that's it.
My best friend got one of those "I reported your Steam accout" messages once and he decided to troll and waste their time. He was instructed to message a different person and so he took his second account to make it look like the account he was supposed to contact and messaged "oh yeah everything is resolved" from there and sent a screenshot of that conversation to the scammer lol
I actually had one of these scams a couple days ago while I wasn't sober. Luckily I had enough critical thinking skills to realize why am I messaging steam customer support on discord and then blocked the guy.
I once pissed one of those people off by acting 3 and never adding the person lmao
I’m not sober and it just happened to me 😭
I wish I had critical thinking when I wasn’t sober..
@@BrodesVRActing what?
I’ve fallen to a discord report scam and my account was lost, I saw this video just now, but now I know, I have always been very aware of scams but the discord one is probably the most believable one for me as I don’t know how discord contacts people, WATCH OUT FOR THESE ONES PEOPLE!
Thank you so much, no text to speech! I almost fell for one of these. I was a kind of skeptical of what was going on, so i searched and found this video confirming my suspicion.
Its a bit different then it is in this video, but the beginning and messaging someone is the same.
I dealt with this today on my discord. In my defense, I was tired after a job interview and a terrible night for not recognizing this shit right away.
But when he asked to change my account's eMail, I got suspicious and looked him up. I blocked and reported right away after finding a reddit entry about this whole scheme.
Warned my pals about it as well, just in case they were friends with that same account that approached me.
I don't really use steam, so this was the first time for me that I saw this scheme.
Someone i know irl actually fell for this type of scam earlier this week. I'm honestly sort of baffled that some people genuinely do fall for this. Its not like they're a kid either, they a full grown IT major ;;
take away the major. they dont deserve it at that point, just saying.
They used AI to get that 💀
Emotions are very irrational thing and scammers take advantage of it. Also, if someone’s less than sober, makes it easier for them to fall for those things. So please TF don’t judge.
They prey in kindness bro
working for discord AND valve at the same time must be super hectic. imagine getting thousands of user reports from discord and millions of "please help, my TF2 chat doesnt work but i spent enough money" reports every day
This actually happened to me and i am so thankful I saw your video. Your a live savior❤
my sister fell for the scam, and she’s older than me 💀
LOOL
The most amusing part to me is that the idea of "raporting" someone is almost the complete opposite of what they intended to say
I got one of these messages while I was in Hawaii, I screwed around with the scammer for a solid hour and a half while i was flying between Hilo and Honolulu. Took everything to not laugh my ass off on that plane
I KNEW IT
Someone I hadn’t spoken to in five years did this exact thing. It instantly felt wrong.
SAME!! someone who i didn't speak with in 3 years did the same thing to me too.
@@TheDarkCeratosaurus Same i was literally crying because i thought my discord account would be banned.. then i realized.. why has someone i havent spoken to in 2 years saying this..?
@@capybaragamesCPG yeah
just happened to me rn, its been 2 years. Im gon block him
Someone who was in a server I’m in messaged me about it, we weren’t close although the discord is still sometimes active for short periods of time, fortunately I found the video and didn’t make it past the I understand part
I just had this happen to me and this video REALLY. helped me in realizing it was a scam, thank you so much!!!
Omg, I almost got scammed like this the same way, luckily I didn’t fall for it since it seemed already to fishy when the person said they supposedly confused me with someone else that they were trying to report instead. It’s literally so super rare to confused people’s usernames in discord..
18 hours of talking to this scammer and they finally gave up. Some of them these days will not stop 'till they get your money or steal your account. Some highlights from this *fun* activity was from the scammer: "Ma'am are you on something?" and "Just change the god damn email already or your account will be deleted" in which I responded: "Nah I'm good, I think I need a new account anyway" so they said "Fk off" and blocked me. Around an hour after this came out, my friend said: "Hey Bro, Watch this NTTS video" and that led me to this video, less than 4 hours later another friend messages me with this same scam. I said to them: "Why should I contact discord support?" then they responded: "Youll get ur account daledted if u don't", I then went to correct them and say: "I'm all good bro, this account is getting pretty old anyways". Great vid bro!!! I emailed the email some weird stuff and reported them! Cya!
I fell for this yesterday. This is partially my fault because i thought this was real and not some sort of fake account. When me and my friends did research we realized that this was a scammer. Thank god for business and retail classes
I fell for this today, but I got all the info of the guy, multiple screenshots and username evidence to prove my case and hopefully get my account email put back into the email of my account, and get my account back by getting the guy who compromised my account locked out.
@@RisumiesEdits did u get it back? discord support still isnt responding me
@@aysegurer1686 nah discord support usually takes a while to respond, you just gotta hope for the best, I'll just retry once and wait for a while.
I did fall for this, luckily I gained common sense when they asked for $100, shockingly enough they said sorry when I told them they were a scam and was willing to give me the account if I gave them the money (I still don't think they're sorry, though) instead of a corporate manager or something though it was a person pretending to be a bot. I reported this to discord asking for my email to be reverted, still haven't gotten an answer.
@@Gargolda7200did you get an answer yet? I just fell for this I’ve been travelling for hours and couldn’t think straight 😭 I just want my account deleted so they can’t look at my messages
so glad you made this video. as soon i saw the guy wanted me to change my email, i was suspicious.
Looked the guy up saw the real linkdin and then saw this video. blocked him and my friend's account removed me
Great video, this is definetely more sofisticated that just spamming links with the accounts they hacked.
Thanks buddy, this just happened to me and this was the first thing that came up when I looked up ban scam. Thou art the G.O.A.T.
My gf nearly fell for this scam on steam a while back. It took me a while trying to explain that it was probably a scam because no report system would work like that, before I gave up and googled it, reading out a script that almost perfectly mirrored what the guy was telling her.
Anyhow, point being she is very trusting, and is most familiar with the 'he said, she said' model of moderation. So I wonder if a part of why people fall for this is just that they're of that same era, where half a dozen mods could run the largest forums on such a basis.
Interesting thought. I think back to games like Runescape where the player mods and even the official Jagex mods were just normal people walking around in-game and talking in chat. You’re probably on to something - familiarity with that style of moderation could lead someone that isn’t very computer-savvy with the modern era of support to believe that someone might just PM you with official business.
I’ve never considered that before, very interesting thought!
oh my god thank you lol, i almost fell for it because i used to be a mod for a game server where people would often get scammed by losers and so i really thought they accidentally reported me for scamming instead of someone else. thank you!!
Thanks for posting this! A friend of mine got their account hacked and their account tried this scam on me. I clicked the e-mail message and immediately noticed the word salad...which was EXACTLY how this "friend" was talking to me and I said "This e-mail is fake. The grammar is terrible. No company would write this way." and blocked them.
I was then a smidge worried that just opening the image in my browser might have given me malware so I Googled for more info about the scam and found this! PHEW! Thank goodness. I completely missed the "add Mike as a friend" part. That and I missed them when they first sent me the scam and they got back to me the next day so the "YOU ONLY HAVE 24 HOURS!!!" thing also tipped me off because it has been more than 24 hours.
Anyway, thanks for the info on the latest scams.
EDIT: Oh and why do people fall for these scams? Add "English is not their first language" to the list. I DO have one actual friend who kinda talks like these scammers, which made me believe the scammer's word salad but NOT the E-Mail's word salad.
The feeling of texting all your friends about your account getting hacked is similar to reaching out to your exes after finding you have a STD
Hey they updated this and it’s starting to get more advanced. My friend fell for this and I don’t know what to do. Thank you for this information.
1. Act suprised
2. Agree to add "Support member" to your friends
3. Do some small talk
4. Send them the grossest image you can find in google - like dog excrements or fungal infection
5. Watch their pain and disgust and get blocked by scammer.
6. ???
7. Profit
Did it like 5 times lol, was worth it every time
Yay! I get 3 cookies!
Got messaged by one of these that had taken over a friend's account on 1 November and responded with "I've not had a ban email from discord so... oh well"
I think a friend fell for the steam version of this account a few years back but thankfully got access again.
Thank you for raising awareness of this!
I fell for the Steam Report scam and was able to get the account back through contacting the ACTUAL support team. It is possible to recover from these scams, but it is annoying. (Also, I had to dm a lot of friends to clarify that I had not, in fact, reported them and that I was hacked.)
Did this scammer text our friends? What did you do with your account when it was away?
@@zatannavolkoff Yeah it texted some of my Steam friends the same thing it texted me. While I didn't have access, I contacted Steam Support to get it back while I told my Steam friends on Discord to not trust what I say on Steam until I have my account back.
Had this almost happen to me. Thankfully, I closed out and blocked them before any damage was done to my account. I almost screwed myself. This video is great information I wish I knew last time. Thank you!
I'm surprised none of my friends know about your channel. this is the second time I had to warn them that it was a scam. once was my closer friend and the other got it today so that's fun (/sar)
This very much is exactly like Steam Support Scam (minus Steam of course). It's funny that I would get messages like that every now and then and proceed to call them out time and time again before they block me (then I report them). Most likely because I have items on TF2 that I guess people really wanted. Never ceases to amaze me.
Advice: don't tell the scammer you discovered them before reporting them, they can delete the messages and you will not be able to report them
if screenshots were not a thing. Also real dsc agent can see what has been sent and deleted on any account, they have no encriptions on any end, spoiler sorry.
@@TT-fy6hkscreenshots can be easily faked. + There was this whole thing with reports being denied when the user couldn't give the discord staff a message link and it also being denied when the message is deleted.
*laughs in vencord message logger*
@@TakashiGolbach yeah but you can get banned lmao
@@TyricSatyric Yes and no, unless he publicly states he is using it nothing will happen. He can however, copy the message link and report it even when the message was deleted since all voice messages, voice calls and chats are logged on the discord system for official Discord staff team that can pretty much read the whole conversation.
i literally JUST fell for this scam
i was so damn panicked about being banned, i followed every instruction without thinking.
Me too. I lost my account in 2020 because I didn't give them ID, so I panicked. I also just woke up after staying up until 3 AM, so I wasn't being rational.
a modertaor will never ask you to add him
SAMEEE
Literally same until they asked for 499 bucks.
I was extremely close, but the money think made it hard to believe
Thanks man, that stuff is still going around. Just got hit with it and needed some additional reassurance!
thank god I searched for this video. The guy said the EXACT same words as in this video. This video is a perfect representation of what happened to me.
PS: I told him "ur scamming me" and he instantly blocked me
The real Mike Bang must be feelin himself after seeing this video 😌
I feel listened to and validated, thank you for warning users not to share their backup codes.
This literally just happened to me lmao
I thought it was sus from the get go but since I was just about to get to bed but the fact they wanted me to change my email address was the point where I looked it up and found out it was a scam
Really dodged a bullet there
Bro entered the matrix last second to dodge that bullet
nah cuz i almost fell for it too but when they asked for my card i told them a rando bank and kept replying w/ "hold on" since I remembered I had stupidly gave my email to them 💀 but i still have my account since i changed the email and deleted the one i had told them
When I heard “I accidentally reported you instead of the right person” I instantly remembered this video and had to double check
Almost fell for this today until I saw this after searching for discord scams thank you so much I cannot thank you enough for this. If I had not have seen this video I would’ve lost my account today so thank you.
I saw some idiot fall for this on my server. Worst part is... the scammer didn't just use their account to scam other, they didn't just buy nitro with the account. The scammer full on blackmailed this user into giving a TON of money on paypal (friends and family) in exchange for giving the account. They, obviously, did not give the account back.
This is literally the Steam "I accidentally reported you" scam just in a different platform
I literally came from being almost scammed by the "same" person, I gave him the money, but due to errors, the payment could not be made thanks to an option that I was missing, "friends and family", only for that reason he did not take the money.
Pls be careful on discord.
Same The same thing happened to me, I feel horrible for losing an amount that I have been saving.
OMG I GOT THIS BY ONE OF MY "BEST FRIENDS" AND I WAS SO SCARED AND I JUST ENDED UP BLOCKING THEM MY HEART IS RACING BUT YOU JUST MADE IT GO DOWN TY SO MUCH I LOVE YOU FOR THIS
This just happened to me today! I was lucky that I started to suspect the moment they asked for my birthday and country. I gave them fake data, and then they kept going with asking me to change my email. I replied sending them this video and they blocked me. Not before I managed to preach about Jesus (just to mess with them) XD
Thank you very much for preventing this malicious things to happen to more people! 🙏
I always secretly hope that they one day reach out to me so I can waste their time. They're always so horribly gramatically incorrect that it's entertaining. I still have this line saved from back when the Steam scams were popping off: "keep in mind that the you're the recent steam user that I have received in my coordinator review panel about illegal activity for illegal purchasing and scam attempts."
I know this video is two months old , but this just happened to me yesterday. Please watch out, these illiterate scams are still going on.
I recently fell for this scam. Swindled $700 out of me and I feel guilty that I didn't catch the signs. Now I probably won't be able to get my mom anything for Christmas...
goddamn dude i also lost money
@@arcl14543 How much did you lose?
Almost got scammed as well today. For you people who got this fishy scam thingy, first thing what i learned is..
Don't panic, take your time to breath and think rationally.
Ask some random question to search for more of this suspicious message. They told me they got scammed yesterday and just made an alt acc to messaged me, but that "alt acc" was made a year ago. 🚩
Sec, someone won't just tell you that they got scammed and apologize to you for accidentally reported you, then give random screenshot of supposedly be Discord team response. Plus, funny thing is the screen shot of the reply is to email to some random username with tags than Official Discord acc.
And one thing is that is basic, DON'T EVER EVER click random link given by some someone in internet, even your close contact since they might also fall or parted in it. Hope it helps ❤
Thanks to this video I figured out I was being scammed, best part is I sent them this video and they blocked me a moment after! Absolutely funny
The most unlogical thing is that i have to prove my inoccense in this.
The Reporter has to proove that you committed something since they would be TOO lazy to do that
"how do people fall for this? cuz they're [throws insults]"
bucko, this mentality is toxic. people fall for this for a variety of reasons. sometimes it's just plain stup!dity but try telling that to someone horribly depressed because they've gone through the worst situation in their entire life and it's just dragging on and on by others outside their control and discord is the primary way they keep in touch trying to stay sane with their friends during a global [incident] where most hangouts are online and see if they actually want to wake up the next day.
Did it happen to you and are you alright?
@@sugarglobe7993 I appreciate you caring 💚
It did. My steam account, one of those "I reported you by accident" scams. I realized after giving them too much information that it was a scam. they only got the account temporarily locked/banned or something and the ACTUAL steam support got it reinstated.
that was june 2021. life is a rollercoaster but I am MUCH better now than I was then.
I fells for it because I had seen discord stuff bans people for no reason several times to the point that I can't even identify if they're even scammer or not
@@donaldnemesis393 I'm sorry about that. I hope that experience helped you to know/learn to be more cautious and ask more questions before going along with something.
It's never good or fun but if we learn from it, that's the important thing.
@@sugarglobe7993 Hey, I had replied to you but I guess it never went through.
I very much appreciate your concern, it means a lot that someone cares 💚
Yes, it was the Steam one. I was in a very very terrible headspace at the time and that message was a "omg great what now" kind of thing. despite numerous red flags, I didn't realize til it was nearly too late.
thankfully, actual Steam staff were able to recover it and in all honesty, I probably hugely overreacted.
as for the life stuff, I got through it as well better than it could've been but it's one of those I'd like the ability to erase from memory/existence.
Did not think the scammers could evolve. Guess this scam works better for them since they don't have to scrounge for an attached steam account.
GODDD this brings back PTSD from march this year, when i was scammed like this
i was able to get my account back, but not my money. stay safe out there and never ever give out your card details to strangers no matter how trustworthy they say they are
how did you manage to get it back? I’ve been spamming them for hours
@@PenguinHoildaysame here!
It happened to me yesterday
my dumb ahh saw the red flags but ignored them and then saw it was a scam when they started asking for bank account information
There’s a very low chance that discord support will actually help you. My friend got hacked (he’s stupid) and discord gave him the run around for like a month before deleting his account
Late, but a buddy of mine got hacked also. Once his account got hacked, it sent invite links to "leaked tik toks" with the server picture of an ass cheek. Quickly i realized something was up and called him lol
I actually fell for a Steam version of this. I managed to recover my account due to quick thinking and immediate response to the situation, but didn't realise it was a scam until too late.
same for me here, but fr i got scared about my account getting banned xD
I've gotten this scam before, it's crazy man
It seems like the Mike Bang account isn't just one, but multiple people all disguised as one person
I fell victim to this...and lost my account...I change my Gmail to their fake safety one. And when I made the back up account they told me I needed for just in case I lost my account. They asked for money and that's when I knew I got screwed there. And now the scammer has my account...
Omg i got almost scammed , thankfully i found this video on youtube while i was texting the scammers. THANK YOU SO MUCH
I mean if Discord was more clear regarding account issues by having a single location (separate from DM's) and never used DM or email to contact you about this (and made this clear), these scams would be a lot more obvious.
He makes me feel loved at every end like i'm gonna cry at some point
Change spawnpoint then...
what@@Gimmy1337
I almost fell for this steam scam 3 months ago. The red flags in the convo were that I sold a $1500 CS-GO skin on Steam Market place. If I had that sorta money I wouldn't even be playing CS-GO in the first place. 😂
If someone comes to my dm and says “Soery I accidently filed your account for illegal transaction” imma turn into a full on English professor
BRO YOU JUST SAVED ME IN 2024 THIS DESERVES A SUB
The reason why most of them use code blocks is so that when you report the message it will not be the same as reporting a nomal one. So most of the cases the discord staff will assume it's nothing too bizare so they (most of the time) will do nothing about it. For example you can see when Mike sent the first message, and then when he sent the second one (which was the scam part) he wrote it in codeblocks.
This makes no sense
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I'm not sure where you got this from but it should just appear either formatted or in raw text so: `text`.
I lost my steam account to a scam like this a couple months ago, it's sad that it made it's way to discord.
Great video. When Discord will finally change?
never
although its an old scam it seems to be a tricky one.
if you arnt familiar with it this will make you sweat, as they state a time limit they create a sense of urgency to mess up your rational thinking.
I think its important for everyone to follow people on youtube that will point out these type of scams.
although I'm talking about a variation of the one that my friend got.
the only reason my friend dodged this scam is because I vaguely remembered the linkedin profile thing.
I had to search for this video lucky I found it in time.
also because im on edge I told my friend to contact discord through the website directly(not clicking any links).
but its actually a tricky one for people that don't follow these kind of youtube channels.
Someone I knew got hacked and sent me one of these messages. Im so glad I saw this video or I would’ve fallen for it! Stay safe and away from scams everyone
This is bringing me PTSD from the time I fell for the Steam version of this exact scam. My dumbass forgot that Steam would never contact you on discord, but on the bright side, I at least learned my lesson.
What did you lose? hopefully it wasnt much
Yeah I also just lost my steam acc just yesterday
@@Spiderfffun It was quite a lot, but I don't really wanna go into specifics tbh
@@Tas_Real How do you manage in these days of age to fall for a scam when you can just search it up on youtube and first any company will say to you:"None of [your platform here] will contact you in any matter"
Or you actually didn't read those, read what company tells you to not do they're telling you this for a reason...
@@tucannYT yeah, because we don't care really. not hate.
I actually feel sorry for the real Mike Bang
I receive alot of this steam scam messages and I don’t remove my steam - discord connection on purpose because I actually enjoy messing with these scammers. Once I played a scared girl, the other time i Rick rolled them and another time I made them click on a short url with an ip grabber behind it. I always check beforehand from which server they found my account and then report them to the server mods, which are always thankful for that. It’s funny tho, because it’s literally always the same bs they are trying 🤭
i just got this while talking to mike lmao, im definitely dumb, so thank you for posting this.
Reposted comment on other video!
They did this to my 13 year old sibling, but now here’s the major major problem. They got onto a call with her, and manipulated her into showing inappropriate things and screenshotted them, telling her that her account will be deleted or whatever if she didn’t do more, this literally happened two hours ago. The account was Allison Wang. They have inappropriate pictures of my sister, and private information of my family since we use discord to chat. We need to somehow find this person and put them in jail because now they have cp. I haven’t seen any other comments on ANYONE else’s videos that had a similar situation to this. So we are spooked, scared, and angry. If anyone has any idea what to do, please tell me. We contacted discord twice already about getting the account back but the email my sister used somehow disappeared off the face of the internet, and her password was changed, so we cannot get into her account. We are more worried about the fact this random person, most likely adult, now has photos of my underage sister. We need to figure out who these scammers are and take them down because in my eyes, they are evolving, they are taking advantage of minors by telling them “we need a Face ID to match your account” then telling them to remove clothing. This needs fixed. Pronto.
oh my word...I just fell for the same scam, and I can't log into my account any longer. Did you contact the support desk (the real one)? I truly hope you can find justice for this. I'm horrified.
Hey bro, please contact me, I know someone named Allison Wang
The reason they use code blocks is most likely because discord scans messages for scams and spam.
And? Code blocks aren't magic. Discord can scan the text in them too.
Well as far as I know, discord hasn't actually specified whether or not they do. It still seems like the most logical thing, I couldn't think of another reason
@@YoikySploiker Right but my point was that *even if* discord does scan messages, there is precisely nothing special about code blocks that would make them invisible to discord's scans. So your claim that this is the "most likely" reason is just overconfident nonsense that is clearly false if you think about it for more than two seconds.
@@MeOnStuff Yeah you're right, I just woke up so I probs am spouting nonsense
Throwing my two cents in here - they most likely use it because it’s strange looking and stands out, especially if you’re not a programmer or don’t know what code blocks are. It also looks a little bit official by the way it’s in monospaced font - like the text is coming directly from some developer’s console somewhere. At least as far as a basic subconscious connection might go anyways.
Basically I think they’re counting on certain people seeing the code block text and confusing it for some kind of official or important message. And I bet that works to a degree - if you’re trying to determine whether or not something is sketchy, something like that might be all you need for your brain to go “okay, this is probably normal enough, I can stop thinking about this now”
Had this happen to me a few months ago, only they insisted they reported my nonexistent Steam account XD Then said I had to add some Steam mods on Discord, and were not able to say why , since
A. I have to do it since they could just file another report or reach out to the support team they were already talking to
B. How the person being reported is a lot less trustworthy in this scenario than the person who originally reported them.
Thanks for this to the new discord users! When I was new to discord, I actually fell for this. I happened to get all the way to the part where this fake Kevin Hanaford asked me for 500 dollars for helping my account be given back. Luckily, I finally asked someone that I know what to do. And I was able to save my account.
So yeah. I guess I am a "Skibidi toilet kid." I'm not that youuunnnggg!!!
Keep yourself safe on discord! :,)
In December 2022, I was approached by that scam and almost lost my account. Thankfully some red flags caught my attention and I backed off and blocked the guy. But that was one of the scariest days of my life.
I just fell for this, I feel so dumb. I found this video after it happened. I got scared, now my account of four years is gone. It was a bit different than this but the same general idea. I feel awful and I know I can't get it back, it's so frustrating.
me too :( I've had my account for 4 years too--and I fell for this. I sent a report to the discord help desk and I hope they can recover my account for me. Let me know if you get it back.
@@materialgirl6194 I did get it back! If you filed the report correctly you should get it back within a week. I wish you luck
@@materialgirl6194did you get it back?
@@kaifeedlehow to file the report for this pls I have nitro on the account and can’t get it back 😢
@@materialgirl6194 I did get it back! File a report and discord should let you reset your email, hope it works!