You are truly wise beyond your years.

People only come here after they get scammed. Just trust me.

Somebody got scammed...F.

Don't worry, I don't even use Discord.

I think you should replace the first five characters in your profile name with "WISE" instead.
I recall posting that advise to people who got hacked as well, but they didn't welcome it. (I mean, there literally is no benefit when linking your account anyway, so idk why that even happened.)

Currently Discord pretty much tracks and registers whatever program you're running and tries to read stuff like usernames anyway. Even if you don't link your account; unfortunately it seems that Discord still finds it nessecary to register information that maybe useful for these scammers in your settings window.
And so it isn't enough to just not link basically.

It helps at least, but I recommend just not using it. Only use it when you have to, but not as a mainstream chat / explore the internet thing.
Make sure that losing your discord doesn't matter a thing at least.

Wow i didnt expect anyone even finding this post and its kinda sad that this kind of stuff even happens. Luckily for me, i managed to not fall completely for it and looking back it was painfully obvious that it was a scam. I just posted this as a warning to anyone else that was actually WISE enough to do some research before trusting someone on the internet.

Someone doing research would have found the hundreds of other threads made before yours.

I couldn't be paid to use discord.

引用自 Pscht：

Someone doing research would have found the hundreds of other threads made before yours.

Agreed.

Though I'll be honest; my account's linked to Discord but for these two years, I never get to see scams happening on me and lost my account again, at least after my last experience in 2020.

It's why be vigilant and act calm and quick is better than be sorry. Scams will look for any vulnerabilities in mind.

There is no risk to simply having the two linked. Discord can't do anything more than anyone else can by viewing your profile. So if someone wants to link Steam to thier Discord account, it's not going to do damage to their Steam account.

What it will do is allow others to see what Steam account is yours and possibly attract the attention of others who would like to gain access to your account or try and steal your Steam inventory items. Then the vulnerability that exists is how easily swayed you are to confidence scams.

If you can't tell the difference between genuine or malicious intent, then you're better off not being on any social platform anyway. Having a Steam account linked to a social platform is the least of your worries. But, the less attention you attract the better off you'll be, so it's probably best for you to not link anything, Steam or otherwise, to your Discord account.

引用自 rawWwRrr：

There is no risk to simply having the two linked. Discord can't do anything more than anyone else can by viewing your profile. So if someone wants to link Steam to thier Discord account, it's not going to do damage to their Steam account.

What it will do is allow others to see what Steam account is yours and possibly attract the attention of others who would like to gain access to your account or try and steal your Steam inventory items. Then the vulnerability that exists is how easily swayed you are to confidence scams.

If you can't tell the difference between genuine or malicious intent, then you're better off not being on any social platform anyway. Having a Steam account linked to a social platform is the least of your worries. But, the less attention you attract the better off you'll be, so it's probably best for you to not link anything, Steam or otherwise, to your Discord account.

Thank you for clarifying that. Reading posts I got the impression that youre compromising your acc just by linking.

引用自 󠁳⁧⁧ 󠁳⁧⁧৫：

Reading posts I got the impression that youre compromising your acc just by linking.

Linking your accounts makes you more vulnerable to attempted scams.

Not linking your accounts is good advice.

引用自 󠁳⁧⁧ 󠁳⁧⁧৫：

引用自 rawWwRrr：

Thank you for clarifying that. Reading posts I got the impression that youre compromising your acc just by linking.

Nah, it's just the fools that love to omit the bad steps that they too. I can't count how often I've read "I clicked a link and my account got hijacked". Well, actually they spell it "hacked" but that's besides the point. The point is, fools love omitting details. Either because they're fools and really believe that details don't count, or because they want to make themselves look better by omitting the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they did. Clicking a link isn't dumb, neither is linking your account. Following scammer's breadcrumbs, now that is dumb. And fools love not talking about the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ they did.

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.