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We in the Hypixel Housing community absolutely despise these, they basically butchered the entire system to send custom messages to prevent these annoying scams.
As an italian, I honestly feel so ashamed on behalf of this jobless scammers, cheating people for their hard earned money and when they are targeted how easily the gaslight the victim and start abusing, I hope all your page reach us many people has it come and teach them not to pick up cause from unknown scam phone numbers in the first place so that they are safe and don't get scammed. You do a great service to everyone here in the Italy taking out this lowlife keep up the amazing work global revive assets on the internet, you are one of a kind.
these scams were actually getting so big in the skyblock minigame that the hypixel server had to add a special npc in the skyblock lobby that explains how they happen and how to avoid getting compromised
@@Alxx_YT Half the time, when the devs try to do indirect countering like having the npc, they have devs in on the scam in some capacity. I can't say much for hypixel themselves since I never play online minecraft, or have ever touched that server, but ark survival evolved has that issue with modding (yes some members of their publishers are playing competitive and outright cheating on their game, and with admin power abuse too).
Sadly this doesn't always work because there are alot of ppl gifting tons of ranks to random ppl to get cosmetically rewards. The hypixel community is used to get free ranks and the scammers abuse it
@@haudraufienix0145but the server opens a book in-game where u have to accept the rank instead of redirecting u to a website. so its pretty obvious if its a scam or not...
never expected you to talk about hypixel on this channel! Thanks for covering this. It's great to see other creators talking about this massive issue in the hypixel community.
Thanks for using your platform to spread awareness on this topic, as someone who manages a discord server that got raided by 1100 of bots trying to phish just yesterday it is absolutely a massive problem.
Thanks for covering this topic, theres an entire other issue that you may want to cover (if you haven't already) in hypixel as well, where people are nuking discord servers of well known players / well known servers, which removes the vanity link, they will then "snipe" the link and make it an oauth scam server or use it for cheating discords/irl trading
As an active Hypixel Skyblock Player since 2019, people tried to get access to my account or items through various means already. The most menacing I had was an old friend of mine who quit DMing me on discord if he could borrow around 2b worth of items (at the time multiple hundred dollar in irl value). I nearly ended up giving him the items, but what made me suspicious is that his minecraft IGN has changed and he always used to talk about wanting to keep it since he made many friends using that name. I ended up asking him if he remember our good friend XY who we used to play with, and he surprisingly said yes. That name was a completely made up one, so I got out of the scam like last second.
I remember back in the day before the custom join messages were nerfed because of this. Me my friends would make fake "you got muted" messages and pretend we couldn't see what they were saying 😂
Thanks so much for covering this, I honestly never expected this type of video from your channel, but i’m glad you posted it because not one but TWO of my friends have gotten hacked exactly like this. It’s really sad to see people losing their accounts because of something dumb like this
What they do makes it even worse in some cases, sometimes they've hacked into or have access to a high level account as the one shown in the video with Mvp++ and a black plus, which usually means people tend to trust those users more as having a black plus indicates some level of prestige
yep, there's really no countering it so long as they have an endless supply of accounts to scam on. Scammers will always find a way around. Best players can do is get educated on scams, knowledge the new generation of internet users don't tend to have.
there is actually another way to get your minecraft account compromised, the scammer usually approaches you in game and asks if you would like to join a discord server for giveaways (ranks, items etc) and then he invites you to a discord server, but you need to verify that you are not a bot (they say its to make sure you are not an advertisement bot) by clicking a link and clicking a 'yes' button. it doesn't give you any information that you are sending your minecraft account token (token is the same thing as a roblox cookie) to the scammer. after u have clicked the button the scammers have access to your account and you've lost your precious block game items that you worked so hard for.
im an adult and once fell for a steam scam cuz sometimes ppl just catch you on a weird day or whatever. if you’re trusting it’s easy to believe a real person talking to you
My little brother fell for one of these on his birthday, losing 6+ months of hardwork . I tried helping him by contacting Microsoft to restore his account but once the scammer changed the security info Microsoft will ask you for the scammer's information not the original email or name
that is literally why i don't get that anyone even falls for those scams. they are so badly made most the time that it seems like some ppl are missing their brains...
My minecraft account has been hacked 3 times for this exact reason. Some scammer messaged me that i won a random cosmetic giveaway, and my old self 5 years ago, clicked on the link, and then a few minutes later, "your password has been changed", "your recovery email has been changed" and all that sht. Really wish i had an account.
when i recieved a password reset from microsoft it literally just said "your one time code" at the top and it basically indicated nothing about what was actually happening
that's what literally happened to my friend's 900 stars account trying to get a free ++ from a non-suspicious normal looking website. this thing needs to be stopped.
It's so sad that people still doing it... I saw many of those and almost fell in one of them but simply understood its a scam and just stopped believing people I just chat report and warn everyone in lobby from who is trying to do it hope your video will help to raise the awarness of those scam methods and make sure no one gonna fall for it again really good video!!!
btw when someone gifts you a rank on hypixel it doesn't tell you to go to some random bad sites, there's not even any chat messages, just a book that pops up and says "someone wants to give you a rank, will you accept?" with two buttons yes and no
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS!!!! There's so many dumb children that fall for this CONSTANTLY. And a large part of this problem is people ratting to get skyblock profiles that they then sell for money. Irl trading has become a huge problem that's resulted in people losing their microsoft accounts a lot. So nice to see a popular youtuber for covering this and making sure more people know!
Something you should cover is ratting, its where somone sends you a mod skyblock mainly then takes over your account then sells your gear and coins and account for irl money, its crazy how often it happens
Didnt expect you to make a vid on this but power to you. Tons of OG minecraft usernames and cape accounts worth thousands each have been stolen with this method.
I got messaged by one of these people a few days ago with the “said you may be interested” but I thankfully turned them down, because despite them knowing some random person on my friends list (even I forgot who they were so I doubt that) it just seemed way too sketch, and I already had MVP+ so that was enough for me.
The lunar scams tend to target high star accounts, and as someone that’s like 600 stars I get these types of messages to often it’s kinda insane. At first I would just accept the duel and just mess with them on discord, but after like 20 of these it’s really getting annoying.
As someone who's been hacked before, I must say that these scams have gotten much worse nowadays, becoming a major part of skyblocks underground community of hackers and ratters. From a simple fake mod to a website that instantly steals your account session id and saved passwords
They aren't exactly ratters since they don't give you malware, this is just a phishing scam. Ratters would be someone who makes a malicious mod or software.
As a former hypixel skyblock player, i can confirm that minecraft scams escelate to child exploitation to get kids to send their friends malware. The people who get the children to do this give the kids half of the coins, while the hacker keeps the other half of the coins and sells them, microsoft password, and in extreme cases access to their computer (which ultimately leads to losing money.)
I remember the being in the skyblock community and finding out loads of people losing their accounts to ratters with the Microsoft migration thing in discord servers I wasn’t a victim but it’s crazy how scammers have evolved.
I remember reading in chat that someone would "give you x2 the value of an item in money" or something like that if you visited him. So i visited him, (the scammer had a buddy in the coop) and told him "this seems fishy." They asked why, and i replied "you ever heard of the saying nothing in life is free?" And as soon as i said that, i got kicked, and blocked. I told the people in the hub to not visit him due to being a scammer, and they thought i got scammed, but in reality, they just made themselves look even more suspicious. Moral of the story? Scammers are not good at scamming alert people.
I got one of these scams. I, since I'm a decent-good pvper I detected that the guy wasnt playing. No one that's bad bets money on something that they are bad. I folded the guy, he hitted me twice. It's actualy hard to fall for these. Hypixel says that you gotta re-enter hypixel.
Its a sponsor it's fine they're just paying him to say good things about them so that they look good in front of the hundreds of thousands of people watching the video 👍
Thank you for coming across this, I fell for this scam in mid december of 2022 and I don't want to get much into it but thank you for bringing awareness about this scam.
people also use a "public hypixel verify bot" in a discord server that asks for your username and email, and then asks for a 6 number pin from Microsoft.
As from someone who has been gifted a hypixel rank, when someone gifts you the rank, hypixel just gives you a 'claim' option without any links.I didn't need to even open my browser for accepting a rank, this was my case, could be different if the hypixel made some new way.
No worries, I always try to waste as much time as possible whenever a scammer comes across my way. I once got a scam call asking about my car, and I don't own one. So instead I sat around for 40 minutes with this guy, and I got him to believe that I had a Doriter2000 truck that is bright orange, triangle shaped and the license plate was "Dorito." Now, I know scammers aren't the brightest people in the world but it was so hard to not laugh every 5 seconds. They were so genuinely confused, telling me they can't find the model on thier computer.
this is very common on the hypixel duels server actually and its known as "beaming" maybe hypixel will do something about this now that you've shed some light on it, thanks
This is super relatable, as once I got a dm from someone asking me if i want free vip, then told me to tell him my email. I told him my email that i never use and he said theres a gift code sent to that email. I looked at the email and it said "Microsoft OTP (One Time Password) code requested". Dont get scammed guys!
I know several ppl who do such scams. They say it's okay to steal accounts because falling for it is the victims fault or just "these things belong to the game" they use some of the scammed accounts for cheating and sniping other players, the other accounts are sold or given to other ppl they know. I also know several ppl who lost their main accounts to scammers. In my opinion it's also not okay to buy/get scammed accounts as you support accounscamming if you do that
The way they do it with YT in their name is insane. I have another YT channel with 240 subs and 2 guys literally changed their usernames to my UA-cam name with _YT or just YT at the end of it and started going around scamming using the housing method and a few people fell for it.
This has been a popular scam targetting the Skyblock community, and I was surprised that I actually got "gifted" a rank a few days ago. I decided to test out by using a random name (like BallsInYourJaws) and a throwaway email, and after that they just straight up redirect me and I didn't even have a chance to enter the code
Many accounts which are sold don't only come from these Rank Upgrade scams but some also come from 0Auth scams & from RATs (malware disguised as in this case a Hypixel QoL mod or a legit mod with some malware added to it)
There are many scams like this but one of the worst is with custom made "skyblockmods", which basically are built like legitamate skyblock mods, tho they will steal you minecraft session ID resulting in basically the same thing as in the video. You can watch a good vid about it by for example cekofari, but there are many others.
Sadly, the first one happened to me. The website is literally the exact same as the normal, just with different codes (the end part which I assumed was for different player ids), and they send you a verification code and then you lose your account
hypixel skyblock has a hilariously large problem with scammers. like for example, one single person scammed around 70 billion ingame skyblock coins (which is worth around $7000) and based off of how the majority of the hypixel skyblock community aren't the smartest people out there, i can definitely see a lot of people falling for scams like these
I had an old account and this happened to my best friend while she was using my account on Hypixel. She ended up giving my account away. I was so mad. I lost everything. I had thousands of dollars on my Microsoft account and it was all gone. That is the only time in my life I ever screamed in someone face mercilessly.
I love how most of these scams take place on social media I don't and have no interest in using Scammer "you have a discord?" Me "nope" Scammer "can you make one to receive free gift?" Me "nope"
Another scam to look out for (email variant) - this same scam is possible with some discord bots (I’ve seen it and almost fell for it oops) - instead of password reset, it emails a “one-time-code **for use** with your Microsoft account” - no password reset, and doesn’t say login, so a lot more people fall for it - it’s sad - I personally like to flood their bots/sites with false info, and I suggest you do the same thing.
Very well explained, i have some irl friends myself that fell for this, some of them losing over $300 worth of cosmetics/ranks/etc on their account. Thank you for giving this subject some attention!
i was always curious: what makes someone spend 300 dollars on ranks in the first place? does anyone actually think its cool? i am trying my hardest to not sound sarcastic here, i literally don't know anyone who buys ranks, or cosmetics over like 20-30 bucks per year
@@Maric18 Skyblock players including me need ranks to reach max efficiency in doing anything by having better teleport locations only for MVP+ Cosmetic I have no idea they're stupid or smth.
@@Maric18 I had played on hypixel for a whole year, gaining about 1300 hours of playtime, so I decided to buy a rank for about $50(idk the exact price), which gave me all the perks i needed to make the game even more fun. So yes, spending money on the server is defenetly worth it. But i regret every singe penny i spent on lunar cosmetics for example, the money is now gone and I dont even use lunar client anymore since i switched to badlion(i dont have any cosmetics on badlion). However, I think my Optifine cape was worth it 100% just like my rank, it really makes my skin look cooler. You can compare it to someone spending $500 on a pullover, which I have never done, same for shoes. Or someone Buying skins in valorant even though they dont do anything better than the deafult skins. My account is about $250 - $400 worth considering the playtime+stats(level)+cosmetics+ranks
@@Paulksla highly interesting and yeah while idk if that's WORTH-worth it definitely seems reasonable. in ye olden days people probably spent 50 bucks a year in an arcade.
I actually fell for something similar years ago. I was offered a free minecraft cape and, as a young dumb 7-8 year old, I went thru with it until my account got hacked and I got banned from Hypixel. Me and my brother shared the account at the time, so yeah, he got upset(luckily he doesn't play anymore, so he gave me his account). I didn't actually get unbanned until around 2 or 3 years ago, when I was 15 or 16. I never knew how to appeal the ban until that year, so I did manage to get my account back, and I always hate my young self whenever I think back to it.
As someone who deals with these scams (in a good way, wasting their time, exposing or even scamming them back) I think this is a very good video. Shows what really happens, how you can report the sites/discords and a big warning overall.
@@Christian10aber09 eh, you can't really scam them back because most of the scam links come from bots partying you. if you encounter them on hypixel what you can do is party the bot trying to scam you and quickly warp it to your island for free social xp.
My minecraft account got hacked because of the "Hey, wanna duel for a lunar cosmetic?" one... The account I've had for around 10 years. Just stolen by a man named BERTI... I wonder what's happened to that account I'd love to have it back but simply I can't afford another account and the sheer sentimental value that that account had for me... It was a trajedy upon losing it... I had bought a 10 quid optifine cape, VIP+ AND MVP+ on it.. Along with that I had a bunch of online friends (and youtuber friends) whom I'm never getting back. It just sucks to suck, though, I guess.
Someone tried to scam me exactly like this inviting me to their housing and giving me the link, but since I knew about it, I went and bought some gold and got mvp++ myself and just said thank you bro. He didn't stop msging me for the next 2 weeks and I loved it
Like 4 years ago I saw someone doing this and it said i got gifted vip, I tried clicking the link but nothing happened and I was too lazy to type out the link.
i've been scamming once for trading skyblock coins for an Optifine Cape. Finally found a good video from you! (Didn't expect that you will talk about Hypixel)
ive known this for a while, i always mess with then and waste their time by pretending to fall for it. one dude once i told him i knew it was a scam after was actually kinda chill, he didnt just straight up block me so yeah 🤷♂️
ah yes i remember when someone on coldpvp did the same with lunar client cosmetics who blocked me after and when i wished death to a bot who tried to scam me with the sameass thing
I fell for this scam 5 months ago. Somehow, the hacker took control of my Microsoft account, but I reversed engineered the Microsoft retrieve account system and got back my account.
One guy literally tried to do this with me like a month ago. It all looked pretty realistic (I’m not that bad at Minecraft so it wasn’t unrealistic for me to win). I noticed it was s scam when the guy wanted some kind of confirmation code that literally was there to reset my password, I confronted the person and they blocked me. I wish I had played along to waste their time more but oh well, could’ve worked with younger people than me.
someone tried to get me with this by saying they were friends with someone i haven't talked to in a couple years. I asked them, and they didn't know the person
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Also! With this scam, sometimes they will just send in a "login with one time code" email which won't have the big PASSWORD RESET words in blue. Regardless, never share codes from an email to someone!
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How do people fall for these????
Bet
Also the blur in the video does nothing I can clearly read the name (and so AI that was taught to do so will do even a better job)
i wonder if sponsorblock will ever be able to remove comments
The fact that the scam website Rickrolls you when you reload it is downright disrespectful
i totaly agree
Nah, it makes me love the scammers
Thats hilarious ngl
@@katunu6030 frr
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We in the Hypixel Housing community absolutely despise these, they basically butchered the entire system to send custom messages to prevent these annoying scams.
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@@jackuw hhenryy wants to build for u again ngl ☠
Hello stranger
Yoo the whole gang is here!
do any of u guys remember Duarmo from the housing community? 2018-2020
As an italian, I honestly feel so ashamed on behalf of this jobless scammers, cheating people for their hard earned money and when they are targeted how easily the gaslight the victim and start abusing, I hope all your page reach us many people has it come and teach them not to pick up cause from unknown scam phone numbers in the first place so that they are safe and don't get scammed.
You do a great service to everyone here in the Italy taking out this lowlife keep up the amazing work global revive assets on the internet, you are one of a kind.
these scams were actually getting so big in the skyblock minigame that the hypixel server had to add a special npc in the skyblock lobby that explains how they happen and how to avoid getting compromised
the security sloth, yeahhh
Honestly, it happens a lot in lobby 1 in Bedwars too. Someone with 900+ stars will say 3/4 or 1/2 in lobby and then proceed with the whole scam
I'm honestly very confused why Hypixel doesn't block certain phrases from house descriptions, like the 'Claim your [MVP]' shown in the video.
@@Alxx_YT they hate players
@@Alxx_YT Half the time, when the devs try to do indirect countering like having the npc, they have devs in on the scam in some capacity.
I can't say much for hypixel themselves since I never play online minecraft, or have ever touched that server, but ark survival evolved has that issue with modding (yes some members of their publishers are playing competitive and outright cheating on their game, and with admin power abuse too).
A scam will always be too good to be true. If you follow that logic, then you will simply become invincible
Sadly this doesn't always work because there are alot of ppl gifting tons of ranks to random ppl to get cosmetically rewards. The hypixel community is used to get free ranks and the scammers abuse it
that is too good to be true, scammer
@@MarcTenson naw i got vip if u go to bedwars lobby 1
@@MarcTenson have you ever been in bw lobby 1
@@haudraufienix0145but the server opens a book in-game where u have to accept the rank instead of redirecting u to a website. so its pretty obvious if its a scam or not...
never expected you to talk about hypixel on this channel! Thanks for covering this. It's great to see other creators talking about this massive issue in the hypixel community.
he's already talked about hypixel lol
@@fog- which videos? I never saw
Hypixel has the most demented scammers there and it’s crazy.
Thanks for using your platform to spread awareness on this topic, as someone who manages a discord server that got raided by 1100 of bots trying to phish just yesterday it is absolutely a massive problem.
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Thanks for covering this topic, theres an entire other issue that you may want to cover (if you haven't already) in hypixel as well, where people are nuking discord servers of well known players / well known servers, which removes the vanity link, they will then "snipe" the link and make it an oauth scam server or use it for cheating discords/irl trading
(they will also hold it for ransom or whatever asking for hundreds of dollars to return the links etc)
(about the scams and ratting etc)
omg hi bucklez
@@aidenyeoh4700 he is bucklez, I think je already knows about hellcastle x))
hi bucklez
As an active Hypixel Skyblock Player since 2019, people tried to get access to my account or items through various means already.
The most menacing I had was an old friend of mine who quit DMing me on discord if he could borrow around 2b worth of items (at the time multiple hundred dollar in irl value). I nearly ended up giving him the items, but what made me suspicious is that his minecraft IGN has changed and he always used to talk about wanting to keep it since he made many friends using that name. I ended up asking him if he remember our good friend XY who we used to play with, and he surprisingly said yes. That name was a completely made up one, so I got out of the scam like last second.
bro Ill give you 4 vbucks for your hyperion
you didnt have 2b in items in 2019 since 0 people even had 1b at the time dont lie. most players had 10m at max LOL your a no name
@@稱 whoops i meant 2020. Time flies too much when sweating the game
Shame that your friend was hacked.
Damn, sucks you lost your friend to hackers. I am a pretty recent player. (I joined i think 2 years ago)
I remember back in the day before the custom join messages were nerfed because of this. Me my friends would make fake "you got muted" messages and pretend we couldn't see what they were saying 😂
yo its doof
A naked man fears no pickpocket.
what about the prison pocket?
he does fear the d1ckpocket
A naked man would invite you to check that pocket for yourself
A naked man fears no pickpocket.
@@NovaTech1 Ubisoft!?
Thanks so much for covering this, I honestly never expected this type of video from your channel, but i’m glad you posted it because not one but TWO of my friends have gotten hacked exactly like this. It’s really sad to see people losing their accounts because of something dumb like this
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What they do makes it even worse in some cases, sometimes they've hacked into or have access to a high level account as the one shown in the video with Mvp++ and a black plus, which usually means people tend to trust those users more as having a black plus indicates some level of prestige
yep, there's really no countering it so long as they have an endless supply of accounts to scam on. Scammers will always find a way around. Best players can do is get educated on scams, knowledge the new generation of internet users don't tend to have.
na most of the time we just buy session ids and fuck wid ppls accs
@@稱 you do realise that you have just admitted to an IRL crime right?
@@Surr3alD3sign oh no!!!
The last thing I’ve ever expected to see on NoTextToSpeech was hypixel housing. I am literally crying right now.
.... me ... wait a game like this exists ... i would rather mod the shit for free
this is crazy
there is actually another way to get your minecraft account compromised, the scammer usually approaches you in game and asks if you would like to join a discord server for giveaways (ranks, items etc) and then he invites you to a discord server, but you need to verify that you are not a bot (they say its to make sure you are not an advertisement bot) by clicking a link and clicking a 'yes' button. it doesn't give you any information that you are sending your minecraft account token (token is the same thing as a roblox cookie) to the scammer. after u have clicked the button the scammers have access to your account and you've lost your precious block game items that you worked so hard for.
Thanks for making a video about this. People we're impersonating me on hypixel as "GET YOUR FREE HYPIXEL COINS" or "FREE RANK" and it was so annoying.
Finally someone that’s talking about this issue in detail
im an adult and once fell for a steam scam cuz sometimes ppl just catch you on a weird day or whatever. if you’re trusting it’s easy to believe a real person talking to you
My little brother fell for one of these on his birthday, losing 6+ months of hardwork .
I tried helping him by contacting Microsoft to restore his account but once the scammer changed the security info Microsoft will ask you for the scammer's information not the original email or name
6:28 wow that's just adding insult to injury
If someone sends a link regarding lunar+ or cosmetics, it is a scam.
As lunar purchases can be gifted directly by putting the username without link.
that is literally why i don't get that anyone even falls for those scams. they are so badly made most the time that it seems like some ppl are missing their brains...
My minecraft account has been hacked 3 times for this exact reason. Some scammer messaged me that i won a random cosmetic giveaway, and my old self 5 years ago, clicked on the link, and then a few minutes later, "your password has been changed", "your recovery email has been changed" and all that sht. Really wish i had an account.
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when i recieved a password reset from microsoft it literally just said "your one time code" at the top and it basically indicated nothing about what was actually happening
Hey thanks for showing this! Its been such a big problem recently.
Hello man you play Ironman so the scams don’t affect you.
@@yleyatarn playing ironman doesnt prevent your mc account being hacked and sold
hey toad!
that's what literally happened to my friend's 900 stars account trying to get a free ++ from a non-suspicious normal looking website.
this thing needs to be stopped.
scams will always be around, if he is a 900 star he does need to acquire some braincells at some point
as a hypixel player thank you for covering this. i hope that this can help the stupid people to not fall for these kinds of scams
It's so sad that people still doing it...
I saw many of those and almost fell in one of them but simply understood its a scam and just stopped believing people
I just chat report and warn everyone in lobby from who is trying to do it
hope your video will help to raise the awarness of those scam methods and make sure no one gonna fall for it again
really good video!!!
1:32 “high pickle” 💀💀💀
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btw when someone gifts you a rank on hypixel it doesn't tell you to go to some random bad sites, there's not even any chat messages, just a book that pops up and says "someone wants to give you a rank, will you accept?" with two buttons yes and no
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS!!!! There's so many dumb children that fall for this CONSTANTLY. And a large part of this problem is people ratting to get skyblock profiles that they then sell for money. Irl trading has become a huge problem that's resulted in people losing their microsoft accounts a lot. So nice to see a popular youtuber for covering this and making sure more people know!
Something you should cover is ratting, its where somone sends you a mod skyblock mainly then takes over your account then sells your gear and coins and account for irl money, its crazy how often it happens
Happened to me, but fortunately I wasn’t running windows
Ur dumb af 😂
thats what this vid is about pretty much lmao
also ratting with mods is not common at all anymore, its mostly just oauth's different types of oauth, and fake websites like he showed in the video.
@@blackhnohj no his video is about a phishing attack, a rat is a malicious mod and they are still quite common
Me casually being on “Hypickle” and falling for this scam...
Didnt expect you to make a vid on this but power to you. Tons of OG minecraft usernames and cape accounts worth thousands each have been stolen with this method.
I got messaged by one of these people a few days ago with the “said you may be interested” but I thankfully turned them down, because despite them knowing some random person on my friends list (even I forgot who they were so I doubt that) it just seemed way too sketch, and I already had MVP+ so that was enough for me.
Good job on not falling for it
The lunar scams tend to target high star accounts, and as someone that’s like 600 stars I get these types of messages to often it’s kinda insane. At first I would just accept the duel and just mess with them on discord, but after like 20 of these it’s really getting annoying.
awh don't waste our time it's not that nice
@@稱 why u flexing beaming here im not
The last week atleast 10 people have tried to scam me like that, watchout!
As someone who's been hacked before, I must say that these scams have gotten much worse nowadays, becoming a major part of skyblocks underground community of hackers and ratters. From a simple fake mod to a website that instantly steals your account session id and saved passwords
As a skyblock player, I hate these scammers and these people are called ratters in the community.
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They aren't exactly ratters since they don't give you malware, this is just a phishing scam.
Ratters would be someone who makes a malicious mod or software.
Happened to me
Microsoft is so bad you can't even get your account back
same i was hacked in the same site that looks like hypickle
If you encounter any lunar related scam websites please report it to lunar and they will take it down swiftly
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As a former hypixel skyblock player, i can confirm that minecraft scams escelate to child exploitation to get kids to send their friends malware. The people who get the children to do this give the kids half of the coins, while the hacker keeps the other half of the coins and sells them, microsoft password, and in extreme cases access to their computer (which ultimately leads to losing money.)
no we dont LOLLLLLLL WE DONT BLACKMAIL THEM WE JUST TAKE THE STUFF AND DIP
I remember the being in the skyblock community and finding out loads of people losing their accounts to ratters with the Microsoft migration thing in discord servers I wasn’t a victim but it’s crazy how scammers have evolved.
FR saw loads of my friends fall for this. I retired from skyblock but had a fun time. Terrible community tho.
this rabbit hole goes so much deeper you don't even know haha
fr, tamb fan
Sounds like tunnel vision could be why they get scammed
I remember reading in chat that someone would "give you x2 the value of an item in money" or something like that if you visited him. So i visited him, (the scammer had a buddy in the coop) and told him "this seems fishy." They asked why, and i replied "you ever heard of the saying nothing in life is free?" And as soon as i said that, i got kicked, and blocked.
I told the people in the hub to not visit him due to being a scammer, and they thought i got scammed, but in reality, they just made themselves look even more suspicious.
Moral of the story? Scammers are not good at scamming alert people.
I got one of these scams. I, since I'm a decent-good pvper I detected that the guy wasnt playing. No one that's bad bets money on something that they are bad.
I folded the guy, he hitted me twice. It's actualy hard to fall for these. Hypixel says that you gotta re-enter hypixel.
Getting your minecraft account stolen and getting rick rolled is like paying a 100 dollar gift card that already been used
Can't afford Guardio😢
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Its a sponsor it's fine they're just paying him to say good things about them so that they look good in front of the hundreds of thousands of people watching the video 👍
Don't worry, There are free vpns, adlocks, and plenty of other stuff. Guardio only cares about your money.
Thank you for coming across this, I fell for this scam in mid december of 2022 and I don't want to get much into it but thank you for bringing awareness about this scam.
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LOL , the way you said "WAIT THIS SITES MALICOUS" got me to chuckle good vid
Thanks for helping a lot of people with sketchy links and scams, I really appreciate that!
people also use a "public hypixel verify bot" in a discord server that asks for your username and email, and then asks for a 6 number pin from Microsoft.
As from someone who has been gifted a hypixel rank, when someone gifts you the rank, hypixel just gives you a 'claim' option without any links.I didn't need to even open my browser for accepting a rank, this was my case, could be different if the hypixel made some new way.
No worries, I always try to waste as much time as possible whenever a scammer comes across my way. I once got a scam call asking about my car, and I don't own one. So instead I sat around for 40 minutes with this guy, and I got him to believe that I had a Doriter2000 truck that is bright orange, triangle shaped and the license plate was "Dorito."
Now, I know scammers aren't the brightest people in the world but it was so hard to not laugh every 5 seconds. They were so genuinely confused, telling me they can't find the model on thier computer.
this is very common on the hypixel duels server actually and its known as "beaming"
maybe hypixel will do something about this now that you've shed some light on it, thanks
X to doubt.... i reported legit cheaters and they still online.
@@miciso666 cheaters macroers everywhere, I even had my whole guy report a macroer and yet 2y later they are still not banned
@@miciso666 absolutely, I stopped playing due to the number of people/bots that get away with it.
beaming is fun asf
This is super relatable, as once I got a dm from someone asking me if i want free vip, then told me to tell him my email. I told him my email that i never use and he said theres a gift code sent to that email. I looked at the email and it said "Microsoft OTP (One Time Password) code requested". Dont get scammed guys!
I know several ppl who do such scams. They say it's okay to steal accounts because falling for it is the victims fault or just "these things belong to the game" they use some of the scammed accounts for cheating and sniping other players, the other accounts are sold or given to other ppl they know. I also know several ppl who lost their main accounts to scammers. In my opinion it's also not okay to buy/get scammed accounts as you support accounscamming if you do that
The way they do it with YT in their name is insane. I have another YT channel with 240 subs and 2 guys literally changed their usernames to my UA-cam name with _YT or just YT at the end of it and started going around scamming using the housing method and a few people fell for it.
so real they 100% want to use YOUR name for it nn
Got a similar scam a month ago, reported that fake website to google.
Hypickle, so happy to hear someone else call it that
This has been a popular scam targetting the Skyblock community, and I was surprised that I actually got "gifted" a rank a few days ago. I decided to test out by using a random name (like BallsInYourJaws) and a throwaway email, and after that they just straight up redirect me and I didn't even have a chance to enter the code
The fact that little Timmy won the giveaway/duel for a free rank just to get Rickrolled is down right disrespectful
Many accounts which are sold don't only come from these Rank Upgrade scams but some also come from 0Auth scams & from RATs (malware disguised as in this case a Hypixel QoL mod or a legit mod with some malware added to it)
There are many scams like this but one of the worst is with custom made "skyblockmods", which basically are built like legitamate skyblock mods, tho they will steal you minecraft session ID resulting in basically the same thing as in the video. You can watch a good vid about it by for example cekofari, but there are many others.
Sadly, the first one happened to me. The website is literally the exact same as the normal, just with different codes (the end part which I assumed was for different player ids), and they send you a verification code and then you lose your account
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hypixel skyblock has a hilariously large problem with scammers. like for example, one single person scammed around 70 billion ingame skyblock coins (which is worth around $7000) and based off of how the majority of the hypixel skyblock community aren't the smartest people out there, i can definitely see a lot of people falling for scams like these
Don't forget about the discord verify scam that has you "link" your Microsoft account!
I had an old account and this happened to my best friend while she was using my account on Hypixel. She ended up giving my account away. I was so mad. I lost everything. I had thousands of dollars on my Microsoft account and it was all gone. That is the only time in my life I ever screamed in someone face mercilessly.
I love how most of these scams take place on social media I don't and have no interest in using
Scammer "you have a discord?"
Me "nope"
Scammer "can you make one to receive free gift?"
Me "nope"
Another scam to look out for (email variant) - this same scam is possible with some discord bots (I’ve seen it and almost fell for it oops) - instead of password reset, it emails a “one-time-code **for use** with your Microsoft account” - no password reset, and doesn’t say login, so a lot more people fall for it - it’s sad - I personally like to flood their bots/sites with false info, and I suggest you do the same thing.
Very well explained, i have some irl friends myself that fell for this, some of them losing over $300 worth of cosmetics/ranks/etc on their account. Thank you for giving this subject some attention!
i was always curious: what makes someone spend 300 dollars on ranks in the first place?
does anyone actually think its cool? i am trying my hardest to not sound sarcastic here, i literally don't know anyone who buys ranks, or cosmetics over like 20-30 bucks per year
@@Maric18 Skyblock players including me need ranks to reach max efficiency in doing anything by having better teleport locations only for MVP+
Cosmetic I have no idea they're stupid or smth.
@@Maric18 I had played on hypixel for a whole year, gaining about 1300 hours of playtime, so I decided to buy a rank for about $50(idk the exact price), which gave me all the perks i needed to make the game even more fun. So yes, spending money on the server is defenetly worth it.
But i regret every singe penny i spent on lunar cosmetics for example, the money is now gone and I dont even use lunar client anymore since i switched to badlion(i dont have any cosmetics on badlion). However, I think my Optifine cape was worth it 100% just like my rank, it really makes my skin look cooler.
You can compare it to someone spending $500 on a pullover, which I have never done, same for shoes.
Or someone Buying skins in valorant even though they dont do anything better than the deafult skins.
My account is about $250 - $400 worth considering the playtime+stats(level)+cosmetics+ranks
L probably was me and my friends
@@Paulksla highly interesting
and yeah while idk if that's WORTH-worth
it definitely seems reasonable.
in ye olden days people probably spent 50 bucks a year in an arcade.
I actually fell for something similar years ago. I was offered a free minecraft cape and, as a young dumb 7-8 year old, I went thru with it until my account got hacked and I got banned from Hypixel. Me and my brother shared the account at the time, so yeah, he got upset(luckily he doesn't play anymore, so he gave me his account). I didn't actually get unbanned until around 2 or 3 years ago, when I was 15 or 16. I never knew how to appeal the ban until that year, so I did manage to get my account back, and I always hate my young self whenever I think back to it.
Eventually this person scams the wrong guy and swat roll up to that mans door every week
"You get a dm on discord from hypixel promotions (which is also a furry for some reason)"
that was the best phrase ive ever heard LOL
the silly kiss at the end makes me feel so much better, never stop doing it
As someone who deals with these scams (in a good way, wasting their time, exposing or even scamming them back) I think this is a very good video. Shows what really happens, how you can report the sites/discords and a big warning overall.
Could you tell me how exactly you sometimes scam them back? I usually just scambait, but i kinda feel like hving a bit more fun with them...
@@Christian10aber09 eh, you can't really scam them back because most of the scam links come from bots partying you.
if you encounter them on hypixel what you can do is party the bot trying to scam you and quickly warp it to your island for free social xp.
I haven't run into this scam yet though over the last few months I have been literally bombarded with art scams.
My minecraft account got hacked because of the "Hey, wanna duel for a lunar cosmetic?" one...
The account I've had for around 10 years. Just stolen by a man named BERTI...
I wonder what's happened to that account
I'd love to have it back but simply I can't afford another account and the sheer sentimental value that that account had for me... It was a trajedy upon losing it...
I had bought a 10 quid optifine cape, VIP+ AND MVP+ on it.. Along with that I had a bunch of online friends (and youtuber friends) whom I'm never getting back. It just sucks to suck, though, I guess.
skill issue
My bro being a virtual bodyguard
A very very thank you ♥️
Someone tried to scam me exactly like this inviting me to their housing and giving me the link, but since I knew about it, I went and bought some gold and got mvp++ myself and just said thank you bro. He didn't stop msging me for the next 2 weeks and I loved it
Like 4 years ago I saw someone doing this and it said i got gifted vip, I tried clicking the link but nothing happened and I was too lazy to type out the link.
i've been scamming once for trading skyblock coins for an Optifine Cape. Finally found a good video from you! (Didn't expect that you will talk about Hypixel)
ive known this for a while, i always mess with then and waste their time by pretending to fall for it. one dude once i told him i knew it was a scam after was actually kinda chill, he didnt just straight up block me so yeah 🤷♂️
I love how he keeps saying "kypickle" 😂😂😂
as someone who used to play sb a lot and had a fairly large sb severe, you will be surprised at the number of people that fall for things like this.
dudes calling out every scam in the world first discord then roblox then minecraft
holy bro knows everything
ah yes i remember when someone on coldpvp did the same with lunar client cosmetics who blocked me after and when i wished death to a bot who tried to scam me with the sameass thing
My friend got his account scammed, and then some random noticed how much time had gone into it, counter stole it, and returned it to him.
Wish that happened to my account
“with over one million users”
*casually shows the extension with 800k users*
"hypickel" i love this guy i've seen a couple his videos and they are amazing keep the great work up!!
first time seeing an actually useful sponsored ad
I fell for this scam 5 months ago. Somehow, the hacker took control of my Microsoft account, but I reversed engineered the Microsoft retrieve account system and got back my account.
damn, that sponsor transition was incredible
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LMAO THIS IS HOW MY ACCOUNT GOT SCAMMED 😭😭😭
I was so gullible idk how I fell for it
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same
Been using Guardio for months now before NTTS started getting sponsored by them and I can confirm it is worth it.
One guy literally tried to do this with me like a month ago. It all looked pretty realistic (I’m not that bad at Minecraft so it wasn’t unrealistic for me to win). I noticed it was s scam when the guy wanted some kind of confirmation code that literally was there to reset my password, I confronted the person and they blocked me. I wish I had played along to waste their time more but oh well, could’ve worked with younger people than me.
When you play along all you are doing is wasting your own time not theirs
Someone once tried to scam me so I just gaslight him, saying I alr did the windows thing
tmw scammer not only scams you but also rickrolls you afterwards
someone tried to get me with this by saying they were friends with someone i haven't talked to in a couple years. I asked them, and they didn't know the person