This is a Help Center post.

Anyone can publish these posts, not just Discord staff. Bad actors often take advantage of this fact and send threatening messages (usually via verified bots) to users in an attempt to social engineer them and compromise their account.

If you are ever sent to a page on the https://support.discord.com/ website, do not trust or act upon any information.

More specifically, do not ever do any the following:

• Click on a link to go to another website
• Change the email address associated with your Discord account
• Give away any of your 2FA backup codes
• Scan a QR code