Account was disabled(scammed for my username)(help isn't coming) Final update.
Hi, My account was disabled at around 7pm central yesterday. I never received an email but taking a look at what I was doing yesterday I believe I figured out why. I started talking to someone new a couple days ago, and specifically yesterday we began talking about a video game we supposedly both play. They asked if they could watch, and invited me a server. Upon joining the server I was presented with a “captcha” which asked me to select the image with color from 4 images, right click, copy, and paste the image into the verification channel. The image in question is nothing special it was a picture of someone eating popcorn on webcam, but upon reviewing it the person does look like they could be underage. I think I was tricked into posting that image so that they would report me as underage to discord to get my account disabled. I'm still very hopeful that discord support will assist me with this perhaps that's more likely if I'm persistent, but I wanted to let anyone here know maybe there is a new type of exploit people are using the get others banned so be careful.
Edit: New information has revealed that I was in fact lured into a scam where someone used a fake captcha to have me post a picture that gets you automatically banned. One of these replies has a video that details how that works. They invited me into a server asking if they could watch me play a video game after talking to me in DM's for a couple days. I would post the pictures I managed to get but they contain stuff I'm not sure discord forum managers would approve of. I have not received a reply from discord, and I'm worried at this point that I may not. If you are seeing this and haven't been scammed like myself be careful out there.
Edit 2: I have officially lost hope. Additional people coming forward with information that these bans are being carried out by a bot that acts unchecked but humans. The wealth of people reporting that the same thing happened to them, and that they are not being helped. The absolute radio silence when dealing with tickets related to my appeal. While the tickets that I put in related to the future of my server are answered with demonetization, and the advice that I should transfer my server to someone else. The precarious timing of this event as if the people who did it knew that discord support would not only be indisposed but also unable to help as the result of new policy. Finally being treated like a villain while people prey on me doing things that threaten aspects of my livelihood, and the livelihood of my friends has left me in a position where I feel as though I have no choice but to cut my losses. I'll be taking the advice of the support associate who I messaged about my server. Discord permitting I will be able to successfully transfer the server to my friend, and move on. If this manages to get resolved before my account is permanently lost I will update you guys.
Good Luck,
Jacob
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Rozianist If I were in your shoes, I would honestly sue them. This cost/affected you the most out of anyone I've heard from. No one should be losing their job and defamed. That's beyond failure on Discord's Trust and Safety's part.
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It is really bad, too bad I'm not in the US and not it Citizen, so I can't even do much about it, you know..if police already CONFIRMED (which mean I have enough evidence to back me up), they SHOULD LOOK AT IT, NOT JUST IGNORED and get me deleted. Totally useless support. Ignore even government official paper, no wonder why it CEO need to have subpoenas in front of his Office to get him in court.
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Another victim chiming in. No luck with appeals after 42 days. Keep getting Clyde responses.
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Keep trying though, play your cards right. Good luck you guys.
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Lazy if ur account didnt get deleted in 30 days then I guess that's hope in itself since the ones who did get their accounts back didn't lose their accounts in 30 days. Good luck.
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A literal 100 days since the ban and I suddenly get an email saying my account was disabled for suspicious activity and to set a new password. Just like that, I'm back in
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