I've been scammed on Discord
3 months ago
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I've should've known better.
A Discord user pretended to be a popular artist that I admired approached me on Discord (I honestly don't know how they know my username. Probably through an FA server?) and asked me to send the payment as family/friends for a space-themed dragon YCH. When my payment didn't go through on their invoice, they asked me to pay through their friend's PayPal (once again with a F/F payment). That got me pretty suspicious.
I informed
kdromka about it, and he stated that the person I've paid is an impersonator/scammer pretending to be him.
And since I can't file a PayPal dispute on F/F payments, my only option is to send a money request to the scammer's friend, letting them know that the said scammer conned me on Discord. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
You can see the screencaps on my Bluesky.
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SCAMMERS/IMPERSONATORS!
A Discord user pretended to be a popular artist that I admired approached me on Discord (I honestly don't know how they know my username. Probably through an FA server?) and asked me to send the payment as family/friends for a space-themed dragon YCH. When my payment didn't go through on their invoice, they asked me to pay through their friend's PayPal (once again with a F/F payment). That got me pretty suspicious.
I informed
kdromka about it, and he stated that the person I've paid is an impersonator/scammer pretending to be him.And since I can't file a PayPal dispute on F/F payments, my only option is to send a money request to the scammer's friend, letting them know that the said scammer conned me on Discord. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
You can see the screencaps on my Bluesky.
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SCAMMERS/IMPERSONATORS!
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Also I reblogged on bsky to help you!