In short, a kid made a Discord account at age 12, lied about her age and said she was 18. The kid at age 13 clicked a scam link claiming to be Discord support and lost access to her account. Scammer asked for parents bank account details which is how the dad became aware. Dad tried to report the issue to Discord, but had to go through an AI support bot that kept closing the ticket. Dad spoke with someone named “Molly” that was possibly a human and explained that his daughter’s account had a lot of underage friends tied to the account that could be at risk. “Molly” said they’d have to open a ticket from within the app, which they no longer had access to because his daughter never set up 2FA.
Discord didn’t actually do anything about this until Ars stepped in. After regaining access to the account the daughter found 2 friends fell for the scam. Discord later banned the account for violating the TOS when lying about her age and stated they would only restore the account if they shared a photo of the kid along with a copy of her birth certificate or passport. The father gave in and complied so she didn’t lose access to her friends.
I’d of told my kid they are SOL and to learn from their fuck up. Go make a new account kiddo, ask your friends for their discords when you go back to class.
What does it mean to “of tell” someone something?
It means they never went back to class themselves
They meant “I’d have” and not “I’d of”
“I’d 'ave”
People make real friends online. Who they don’t know in person. You’d be telling your child to toughen up and get new friends.
Ever had to move when you were a kid? Kids have to make new friends all the time. So do adults. Being forced to make new friends because of your own mistakes is part of life. You talk about it like it’s abuse.
Yes, because welcome to the internet. This is what we used to deal with.