this was a recent situation in regards to a scammer stealing a mutual's discord account, but i need to state this really quick for anyone who has not experienced someone trying to take their credentials:
if, for any reason, someone comes to your DMs and says they "accidentally reported you" and shares a screenshot of a text report with your username on it, IT'S FAKE. if they begin to tell you to speak to someone through Discord DMs to resolve the report, DO NOT ADD THEM. if they start to ask for your credentials & passwords or bank account information, DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT INFO.
any form of moderators or admins that work FOR Discord will never, ever talk to you through direct messages. that form of communication will be through e-mail or through their official website of some kind. this can also be applied to Steam and other various forms of social media or usage of personal accounts.
be mindful and be careful if someone sends you a message and you notice it's not written the same way that they normally would type or form sentences. be suspicious if something is off, because admins will NEVER try to talk to you through direct messages. ever. they will constantly try to make you worried by making the situation as realistic as possible with phishing links and fake screenshots. be mindful of that if you get a suspicious DM.
examples of how "fake reports" can look:
any kind of message to forward to any "security" or "admin" that's on Discord will always be fake. know that you can change your username to ANYTHING you want and it can include "security" or "admin" in the username.
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Genshin Impact Account Security Information
Recently, we have received feedback from Travelers through community and customer service channels that some Travelers have logged in to phishing sites from unknown sources, resulting in problems such as unauthorized logins and account theft. We take all feedback of this nature extremely seriously and will promptly investigate and follow up on each case based on the information provided by Travelers.
In the process of checking accounts with security risks, we found that many of these accounts have logged in to third-party websites and applications from unknown sources. While we continue to crack down on illegal phishing websites and enhance account security through technical means, we hope that Travelers:
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Anyone who uses LastPass should look into resetting all of their passwords saved in their vaults. Entire vaults were stolen during their recent breach.
CHANGE THOSE PASSWORDS, Y'ALL!
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Wtf, I think someone hacked my AO3 account ? There's a bunch of fic in my history and marked for later list that I've never seen in my life, nor for fandoms I'm in ?
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Password hacked.
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KC: the imbecile who usually uses this account has simply frightful cybersecurity. it should not have been this easy to get access to this account
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