How to Spot Scammers

The universal red flags

Almost every scam, regardless of the story around it, relies on the same levers:

• Urgency. “Only today”, “last chance”, “decide now or the offer is gone”. Pressure exists to stop you from thinking and verifying. Legitimate people can wait.
• Too good to be true. Free uridium, giveaways that require a “small confirmation” first, unbelievable trades. If it sounds like a gift, it is bait.
• Secrecy. “Don't tell the admins, let's handle this in DMs.” Scammers isolate their targets; honest people have no reason to avoid public channels or moderators.
• Refusing verification. Whoever dodges simple checks (“prove it's your account”, “let a moderator confirm”) is hiding something.

Impersonation: check IDs, not names

The most effective scam in Discord communities is pretending to be someone trustworthy: a well-known middleman, a server admin, “AccInsight staff” or “Bigpoint support”. Display names and avatars can be copied in seconds — the underlying account cannot.

• On AccInsight, every verified middleman has an official profile page listed on our middlemen overview. Compare the exact Discord user ID from the profile with the person contacting you — not just the name.
• Be suspicious when “a trusted person” suddenly contacts you first. Impersonators approach their targets; real staff and verified members rarely do.
• When in doubt, ask in the public channel of the community server whether the person is who they claim to be.

Don't trust screenshots

Screenshots of stats, inventories or conversations are trivial to fake. This is one of the reasons AccInsight exists: an account page is generated from the account's actual data and cannot be photoshopped.

• If someone wants to prove their account's stats, ask for their AccInsight account link instead of pictures — and check that the link really points to this website, not a lookalike domain.
• Check the creation date on the account page. A snapshot from a year ago proves little about today.

Dangerous links and downloads

• Never log in through links sent to you in DMs. Type the address yourself or use your own bookmarks — see our account safety guide for how to recognize phishing domains.
• “Helper tools”, “bots” or “hacks” sent as downloads regularly contain malware that steals every credential in your browser. Do not run them.
• Nobody legitimate needs your session ID, password or email access — ever. Any request for credentials is the scam itself.

Use the community's memory

Scammers depend on finding victims who haven't heard of them yet. The community keeps records — use them:

• Check our public banned users list before trusting an unknown person. Users banned for scamming are documented there, including their DarkOrbit user ID.
• Look at a middleman's ratings and history on their AccInsight profile instead of taking their word for their reputation.
• Prefer the verified community servers listed on our homepage — their moderators know the current scam patterns.

If you got scammed anyway

1. Secure your account first: change passwords, invalidate sessions — the steps are in the safety guide.
2. Report the scammer to the Discord server's moderators with screenshots of the conversation, and report the profile to Discord itself.
3. Warn the community. Public reports are what make lists like our banned users page possible — they protect the next person.