My idea for preventing & ending Nitro Scam Links.
So lately my staff team and I have noticed an insane amount of users getting their accounts compromised by the typical bots spamming the "I got you free nitro just click this link" type messages. We often kick these accounts from our server just incase they ever do their account back they're able to rejoin and It also protects our members from getting messaged with the same links and also losing their accounts as well. Now this could only work in stopping the scams from going to my server, There's still thousands of accounts getting hacked daily. So here's what I came up with to potentially protect all of discord from this:
When you get a new message from someone you're not friends with or has never messaged you before that contains a link, A warning message saying something along the lines of "This user has never messaged you before, Are you sure you'd like to open this link? Learn more about nitro scams and protecting yourself on discord here: (discord article about the situation)". That way It alerts newer people that It's very risky to that that link.
For the accounts that are already hacked and messaging an accounts friends/servers, A warning would pop up the same way with the link they sent: "Warning! It appears this account may be hacked are you sure you'd like to open this link? Learn more about nitro scams and protecting yourself on discord here: (The same article about the situation)".
I've attached a very rough draft image of what the image could look like for reference. It would definitely be a lot prettier than my rushed example if discord Implemented this on the platform. Let me know your thoughts. 
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Amazing idea!
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