Shady Businesses are Invading Discord
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2023
- Discord is the new fertile ground for strange businesses to plant their seed of annoying advertisements. Mobile games, if you can call them games, are being shoved down people's throats through a somewhat transparent advertisement. Accounts ran by advertisers will add you as a friend and talk to you. Eventually they will start to push you into downloading a game...
Now I thought this bad boy was a scam, I thought it was going to be some malware that I download and kaboom my phone is now some dude's new crypto miner. But the truth is a bit more interesting.
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Something to add is that when me and my friend were trolling one of these scammers, we asked if we could join so we could get paid too as a joke, and he actually told us how much he was being paid and how to do the job, so its either a pyramid scheme or a weird mobile game marketing stunt.
Yo how much money was he being paid?
@@derp__king614419$ fortnight card
how much did he get tho, cant be that much per player if they REALLY want you to download and play the game, bet they get a bonus if you buy something ingame
They probably get a commission if you spend money in the game, probably why they need your ID
I can verify this myself as yesterday before this video even came out I had this exact scam happen to me. I was trying to figure out how it was a scam and the person I was talking to was apparently American and lived in NY. They didn't have broken english like the ss in this video so I think it's some marketing campaign.
The persons discord account was 5 years old and had an active nitro sub for 2 years.
As if Discord wasn't shady enough...
*Flashbacks to the last video*
I just got that scam and i tell him that i will play it letter
And the game is same
@@notalfeo4521 raid shadow legends reskins
Well at least these people don't really lie
A naked man fears no pickpocket.
Lmao wtf
unless it's a brave pickpocket
boy you got me rolling here
Flesh pocket
ok das cool but what does this have to do with the issue at hand
Discord has become a wasteland of scams after they got rid of trust and safety..
Wtf, they did?
I literally have never been contacted by any bots, spammers or scammers on discord. It’s crazy to hear that they are so common.
The joys of having all DMs and friend requests from outsiders disabled.
Yeah people join overcrowded servers that theyre not even active in and then act surprised when they get unsolicited DMs.
Same thing until I forgot I had that setting enabled
@@AzureRT456yea
I've gotten bot DMs from friends who got hacked but that's about it
NTTS somehow can entertain us, while telling us important things lol
@@enzoshorts. us as in the people
Watching
@@enzoshorts.The viewers obviously
@@enzoshorts. "Never Comment On NTTS 😰 #Shorts #Roblox" lookin' mf really asking this
we love edutainment 🔥
now we just have to do this every time someone needs to learn anything
These have been going on for the past year, the fact that people haven't caught on until you have made this video just proves that it's been working.
It's in fact the opposite. Nobody cared, nobody has seen, it always goes to spam, so nobody will talk about it
I hate how I once fell for one of the scams where they send you an "early access game" and when you run it it locks you out from discord and steals your information. The person on the other side was being very patient and nice so I didn't think it could be something bad. When I downloaded it and saw that the game was very small, I thought something fishy was happening, but I decided to continue, then I ran the file and immediately realised what was happening, deleted discord and it seems like I'm fine
What was the space
@@Okarabouzouklis the size of the "game" wasn't big, iirc it was around 10 mb or a bit more
Seems like you were quick as hell, and bit lucky. Glad you still kept you account, I'm assuming
@@magenta9105 yup, still kept it
I can’t believe that Discord isn’t doing ANYTHING about this type of stuff. It almost seems like they are facilitating it.
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what are you even talking about? you sure we just watched the same video?
I mean discord should be able to detect bots, but scammers are always a hassle to handle. im sure if multiple ppl report a guy, discord will take care of it
If you have such a great solution I'm sure discord would love to hire you.
What do you want them to do? sure these guys seem shady at best, but they don't seem to be doing anything illegal or TOS breaking
I was reached out by one of these advertisers for the dominion game. I went through with it since I was curious and the game would always encourage you to buy some limited time character or so. The advertiser was also pushing me to do it but it's not like I got any bucks on me to spend on some random game on Play Store. They also invited me to a server that was supposedly about a certain category in the game and it was growing pretty fast which was very surprising (100 members in a day). Nonetheless thank you for spreading awareness about these clowns :)
Counterpoint: They may have a list of ppl to which they dm, and they share it between themselves. If you try to scambait them you may end up on that list and just get your account filled with even more of those. The best way to do it is probably to use a fake account linked to a fake email
If they have a list of people it'd likely who's fallen for it, to get them hooked even more.
More fun for you then!
yeah i doubt that. like someone else said if they have a list theyll probably add previous "victims" to it, not people who wasted their time. they just want people to make accounts and use codes, they dont wanna waste time with kitboga ver 2.5 jr.
@@sandjaarx Exactly, there's no reason for them to waste time especially if they get paid for it (probably per successful scam)
@@when-do-we-get-a-block-button Yup. And possibly the screenshot they ask for is just a proof for you actually playing and not just lying about it.
The fact they need a screenshot could be them using your user progress screenshot to complete offers on third party sites that give gift cards and such for completing a certain amount of progress in certain games as well.
I'd be shocked if those websites even worked xD 99% sure those are scams
@@JordanPlayz158 a lot aren't they just require a stupid amount of progress in games in order to pay out.
@@WGG-01 I know back when I was a dumber kid, I did try those and would reach the requirement, there was no way to show or validate it, not saying all of them are scams but I'd bet most of them are
fairly sure that's it
@@JordanPlayz158lucky patcher be like:
its a happy day when NTTS uploads
People: 2 wrongs dont make a right
NTTS: they cancel each other out
My favorite way to respond to these types of dms is death threats and racial slurs
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Wow, I remember tumblr being flooded with “try my game” scams years back. Sad that it’s happening again on Discord
feals like 2017 - 2018 roblox bots ngl that spams every server when i 1st JOINED
The outro of your videos always cracks me up lol
I can always count on you to make me laugh, this video is funny just like most😂
The only time these shady business accounts feels like they're spoken by a real person, is when they start to cuss & get angry, otherwise, all of their other replies (such as i want to be your friend, send me yourinfo, details, address etc) are all feels like they're just automated replies by a bot
I got one of these DMs, but they were very kind and stopped when I told them I wasn't interested.
For some reason I can't stop laughing at 4:31 when NTTS said "ligma games" 💀
Once got my Discord successfully hacked by the "Hey test my game!" routine. Yes, anyone with at least 5 brain cells wouldn't fall for it, but hear me out: I just so happened to be in university at that moment for game design, where it was rather frequent for other random peers to have us do playtesting for class. I was literally the TINY percentage of people that "test my game" ACTUALLY applied to logically and didn't strike me as odd.
Well, if you're in game dev corner, "test my game" DMs sound like a perfectly normal thing to encounter lol
Though either way, it's probably still perfectly fine (if not highly encouraged) to scan everything you intend to install even if it's for a alpha/beta test.
@@crowdemon_archives Yeah, that taught an early college me that lesson rather quickly.
I love how youtube said:
"Hmm, this Black Desert Mobile"
Advance congratulations on 500k ❤
thanks for the vid! i just found it when i checked some shady guy that dm'd me on discord and reported to the owner of the server we were both on!
I've got that a few weeks ago, had a little fun acting naive and all just to "politely" ask them to get lost after half an hour. It was pretty funny
They're also breaking Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines relating to unsolicited DM marketing messages (spam) so be sure to report them.
NTTS on the UA-cam grind rn
Thanks man, this actually helped a lot because I wasn’t sure if their game was a scam or not.
i've been contacted for a game on steam, gravity oddity, and sadly discovered it was also a malware campaign...
It's not only shady, but it's also against Discord's TOS. I'm pretty sure Discord doesn't allow DM Advertising. Correct me if I'm wrong of course.
Chaotic Neutral video. Love it.
The games also have a ton of unnecessary app authorizations, which normally is a sign of data mining your info from your phone, AND that info can be tracked down to discord if you send them a playerID
God the pun opportunities in this vid
The video: Explaning a scam
UA-cam: we think is Black Desert Mobile
Ntts is our hero and even download malwares on his old computer. Thank you ntts.
GG on the 500K Subs
I remember I got something like this recently from a user who wasn't even verified in a discord server I'm in and they said they were a "designer" or something like that and my bullshit senses were tingling. Luckily they were banned from the server after I reported it to one of the moderator's of said server so no harm was done. This happened to me on the 25th last month.
ok the memes you show casually on your videos. I always wonder how they exist... but what worries me the most is how you find these......
yo this is some insane black desert mobile gameplay
I also have this exact ‘scam’ but them pretending to be sfx artist. Ive had over 20 people like that… its so annoying
Your channel has grown so much since I first subscribed, and it's still some of the most entertaining techie content on UA-cam. I appreciate all the work put into this, thanks bro 🫡
When I hears. Mobile games
I immediately know where this going
500k subs congratulations🙂
Congo 500k 🎉
why do I know want to get these dms know just to annoy the hell out of them also no text to speech I love your videos >:D
keep doing what your doing cause it makes me happy and makes my day!
Bro my bestie watches u and he prolly already watched this vid so i am gonna act like i am a game dev and bro might even believe me . Btw i love ur vids
Congrats on half a million subs
Ok but who starts a sentence with “um, um” 💀 0:21
this reminds me of how I used to waste the time of those adult webcam site promoters back on all the old chat room services by telling them I didn't have a credit card and wouldn't ever get one because I have bad credit. I played stupid and didn't even acknowledge the fact that my debit card would have worked fine, I simply stuck to playing it straight, company wants a credit card but I don't have one so I can't sign up :D... After I got bored of that one, I had tons of fun abusing the fact that I'm legally blind so there's not much I could even see if I did sign up lol...wasting the time of shady scammers and companies is my favorite pastime :D
lmao Nice. I'm also legally blind and this helped me defeat those car extended warranty scams.
Can't have a car when you can't legally drive, after all.
@@MultiCool55 so very true :) just like you're not going to tell a network systems/computer repair major there's something wrong with their computer without them realizing the truth lol. scams are so much fun to screw with when you're the perfect negative for them :D
NTTS as my math teacher would be fun
i downloaded some mobile game like 2 months ago called like ant legions or sumthing like that, it basically prompts you to join a guild as fast as possible and it very often puts you in a guild owned by a promoter which asks you for your discord and carries out this same process. its funny that its not just random selection they actually have people in other games targeting new players to play a different game thats also just p2w
something i don't hear talked about as much is how i'm fairly sure scammers (i get the same thing with random texts, calls, dms, and emails) will dm you saying stuff like "hi" to see if you reply and if you do they put you on a list of potential victims and get signed up for more spam. i never accept calls or requests from people i've never talked to (at least, unless it's not something actually potentially worthwhile) and if they ask about money or my personal accounts it's an immediate block. some of them make it look legit too, pretending i played a steam game with them or something but i figure if they're asking if this is my steam profile or if they just say "Hi" from a new account in a random server it's fake and block
congrats on 500k
We all know that NTTS wanted to download those games and not test them for malware
He saw the boebs
he said: " lemme check those"
@@cataclysmiNo one can resist the boebs.
Except for gay guys, I think@@zgamez129
"Get 8 leme coins... Lemme see them- Stop get back on topic"-NTTS
Can you do a deep dive into the GFX bots? They're all over twitter and they've started flooding small content creators' discord servers.
Can't wait to troll one of those guys
ok time to watch now
There's a bunch of people I suspect to be scammers that seem to be working on this angle of "do you create content on (Twitch, UA-cam, etc.)? I'm a graphics designer, and want to show you my portfolio." I always refuse, because 1) I'm an artist myself, 2) I haven't started my channel yet, and 3) I have strong suspicions they'll post a link that is dodgy, in an attempt to capture information, or maybe try to install malware/trojans etc. on your computer.
man just for fun can you revisit guilded? i want to see new comparations between them.
I find that there are a lot worse things on discord, but this is still quite shady.
Hes a news channel so some stuff might not seem as important as others but he covers pretty much everything as it happens
I could see the actual promoter tracking the user name and then just attacking them on alt accounts
I fell for this, it sucked alot. Goo to know that NTTS has reviewed it. More people need to know about this.
This man is so cool. These videos would work as podcasts bc the video is unnecessary.
Edit: (Only the visible part)
Its my lucky day ntts released a video
the reasons these games have any sort of millions of downloads is there ability for you to play these games and gain ingames rewards on other crappy games you play usually done by unison or offerwall
Great point
I swear I used to see advertisements for 'Clash of Empires' constantly. Like youtubers promoting it.
Scambaiters have prepared me for this moment when these people come knocking
I literally had this happen to me a few months ago. Good thing i denied, but yeah, she would conversate and keep asking if id want to play it and join them. Its over with now, but damn, seeing this video later is crazy.
ah the perks of not having a rare username on discord, almost no one randomly adds me, unless its from a server im in
It's not to track you for analysis, it's so the "promoters" themselves can get their commission for bringing in marks
Arnold is like if Jesse Pinkman started doing mobile scams on Discord and looked 100% better.
My only experience with being randomly invited by strangers on discord was with a group full of “Ditto” as their usernames.
"How much money do you think they make? I bet you'll be wrong"
Trillions.
Oh it's billions.
I'm getting shady shit like this so often, like art promoters
thank youu, one of those almost had me fooled
"You know Discord messed up when ntts uploads" - Me
That's not how signatures work...
Alright so time to grab a bunch of Eustace Bagge's gifs from the What's your offer episode of courage the cowardly dog.
The game promoter scenario is the most logical if you consider tis concept: many people in countries like China who don’t go outside or work (Neets) have to find other ways of making money. Often this leads to online jobs that are quite odd… but easy. like this.
The fact that discord is banned in China only cements this.
I got one of these and I instantly knew what it was all about. This type of "game" has been copypasted for decades upon decades, I wish I knew which one was the original or what base they use (though they could probably just hire developers to build it from the ground up tbh).
its pronounced eye-la but great video either way lol
When I encounter them I just copy paste the Thianamen Square copypasta
"are you being evil, yes" nah we aint evil we just chaotic neutral
I remember my friend getting hacked and his brothers account got hacked too, they both sent me a message about “Needing a play tester for their game they made for a collage project” and all I could think was “..But we’re in high school??”
There is a lot, I mean a lot of Discord scams for "Graphic Design Artists," especially if you have your twitch connected. They rob art and sell it as their own to then make you pay an absurd amount of money for robbed art. I've gotten a lot of information from some scammers and they seem to make quite a bit doing it.
I always ask those scammers for free sample images (which they always send after that) and it's funny enough that they not even smart enough to only steal from one person. At least the ones that finds me from random servers are the ones who are just throw in some random image from their photo gallery and not even check it if it's all the same style or not.
I love your channel
now that's a plot twist
discord : I'll just pretend this didn't exist
Glad I saw this because I started chatting with them😂
Yk its real when this gentleman speaks on it
ntts saying "izla" instead of "eye-la" is hilarious
Fг
I have to point this out, when you asked for screenshots at the end, you meant the conversation screenshots. In relation to the rest of the video, it would be easy to misinterpret this as the in game, avatar screenshots. xP
we almost lost ntts in the beginning
Sorry, I didn't notice I was focused on something else 😂
I haven't ran into those yet
Oh yea, I got one of these. Assumed it was just some weird guy wanting free rewards in a game, didn't know it was weird like this.
I'll have a good one, just for you darlin
Arnold's PFP looks like dark viper au
I actually messed with one of these scammers and tricked him into thinking i had the game installed. It was rly funny
I've known those sorts of games years ago from being like clickbait-style games on browser or the app store, that basically have the same micro-transaction hellhole with timers to build stuff, that you can pass by paying real life money, wait times for everything and obviously the PVP is skewed towards being Pay-to-Win. They made those shitty ads like Mafia City and such on UA-cam that was a trend as well, none of the ads showed any gameplay and relied on 'low level becomes high level'-types of stories, absurd/gross factor or whatever else. It was them. So I'm not surprised that they are trying to attempt this now on Discord.
(Funnily enough, the big companies are trying and are actively doing the same shit to you now as well, and get away with it.)
well that was a plot twist