/pony/ - Pony

Wheat and Manley are still active out there?

I mean, I hope they do recover from this thing.

Yeah, to give some more specifics, it's the "Test out this game I made" scam.

The scammer uses that to hack your account, then demands you pay them money to not sell your passwords to various accounts. They actually did send me screenshots of password lists, briefly wrote a message in the chat from my own account, and could see I had bought Steam Games.

I refused to bow to this, and soon after I was kicked off of my Discord profile and could not log back in or  even recover the password, since they appear to have changed the recovery e-mail attached to the account.

The funny thing is they downright haggled with me. As in, demanded 200 Euros first, but gradually went down to 150 and 100 as I insisted I don't actually have that kind of cash and they hit a fairly broke target. So there are people behind it, cause they can respond to what you say. Not just bots.

I obviously ticketed Discord right away (and like a bunch of clowns they've sent a "Rate our performance in support!" email before even getting around to the problem), changed all major Google, PayPal ETC passwords, checked and uninstalled all apps installed that day, and so forth. Nothing else has happened yet, and I suspect it actually won't, as this appears to be more of a scare tactic to get you to pay.

After all, if they wanted money and could actually use all my passwords, they'd have just gone to PayPal and sent whatever they could to themselves instead of trying to haggle with me.

That said, it certainly was scary to realize that yes, they had indeed gotten access, if to nothing else, then to my actual Discord account and could write messages in my name.

So yeah. If anyone - and that goes for any friends you have who dabble in Game Dev, too - ask you to "test a game for a few minutes" and insist you do it soon, don't engage, report and tell the same story.
I honestly should have smelled the bait cause it was from someone I haven't talked to in a long time on Discord, but I was working on something else and am usually more than happy to help friends out for a second, so I got suckered right in.

Someone once tried to get me to download a virus that way, but it was a .exe and I only use Mac.

Never run an executable of untrusted provenance outside of a sandbox (VM or at least a Docker container, or a wipeable  'burner' computer with no sensitive data).

wouldn't a Discord hack be good? it might turn him back to stone or something

Speak of the devil, I just got an offer from Manley's discord.

>>1199744

I did, as well.  Haven't heard from him in probably months, stuck here wondering if he's even still alive, and now some hacker is puppeting his corpse.  State of the world today, sheesh.

>tfw working on a game and now if I ask people to test it, they'll immediately assume my account is hacked and I'm trying to scam them

>>1199664
This is good advice in general when it comes to computers. I thought people had already learned this years ago, but apparently not.
Also use MFA on every important account.

Heads up - my account is still hacked, and it's apparently messaging people right now. Ignore it.

Discord has not reacted AT ALL to my ticket for ten days now, but had the gall to ask me to "rate their performance" within less than 24 hours.

I've sent a followup email with screenshots of people telling me they're being messaged right now. Seems all I can do. God I am sick of this shit.

Aaaand now it's finally back. A followup email got 'em going so it was restored while I slept. Good lord.

Anyway, sorry to anyone who got bothered by that jackass.

>>1200294
Good it's back to normal.

>>1200295
It's certainly nice to havei t back. I've done a little cleanup deleting the messages the hacker sent, apologized where it did happen, and of course let the few people that I had added on a temporary account now - and told them to just ask me any question they need to to confirm my identity.

Thankfully they don't seem to have contacted that many people, and didn't post in any servers I was in.

okay good time to unblock

Crazy shit: Discord ITSELF got hacked recently. Specifically Discord support got hacked, so all the people who went to Discord for help from getting hacked now have their information taken, maybe