🚨-account-safety

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I was invited here to join a program! Is this real?

• Short answer:
  No, it's a phishing scam.
• Long answer:
  If you receive a direct message where someone says you've won something or that you have a limited time to claim something or to join a project / program, they are likely scammers. Discord will only contact you through the e-mail you have linked to your account, using system messages or using in-app notifications such as deals/announcements appearing at the top of your client in a colored bar.

Where can I learn more about this scam?

• Scams and What to Look Out For
  https://discord.com/blog/common-scams-what-to-look-out-for
• Protecting Against Spam on Discord:
  https://discord.com/blog/protecting-users-from-scams-on-discord

What can I do if I encounter a scam link?

• Click the "Report Spam" button & block the user.
  If you provided your user info, change your password and enable 2FA immediately. We recommend reading this Safety article to better protect your accounts: https://discord.com/safety/360043857751-Four-steps-to-a-super-safe-account

How do I know if a message is legit?

• Discord's in-app messages will always include a System tag right next to the name and you cannot reply to their messages.

Someone's claiming to be working for Discord, how can I tell if it's real?

• Employees will have a Discord Staff badge on their profile. They will never reach out to you in DMs to ask for your account information or tell you to change your account info for verification purposes. They do not take any requests via DMs and all official requests must be through this form: https://dis.gd/contact

Someone DM'd me that I won Nitro and it looks like the real thing!

• Discord Nitro & Classic have special embeds where the option to claim Nitro is part of the embed and not a button below an image. When you click/tap on any part of the embed, you are redirected to the Nitro tab in your User Settings. For Desktop, the embed also changes its size when you resize your Discord and you can hover over the embed to see it react to your mouse movement.

I joined a server where they ask us to verify using a QR code, what should I do?

• Never approve a QR code login that you didn't generate yourself! If you've been sent a QR code by someone else that opened the login verification screen, hit cancel right away. If you approve a login that wasn't yours by mistake, you can change your Discord password to log out of all devices at once, including those you don't personally approve of.

Most importantly, don't forget that any QR code login attempt needs to be approved before it goes through. Keep an eye out for that verification screen and never verify or approve a login that you didn't ask for.

My account keeps joining random servers! I already changed my password and removed all devices and it's still happening! What do I do?

• Double-check if you authorized any applications to join servers for you in your User Settings > Authorized Apps. Deauthorize any apps you don't remember authorizing or no longer use. This is a normal scope of applications but there are definitely bad actors misusing this function. Make sure you trust and double-check the applications you're authorizing on your account!