They could stand to lose their gaming accounts, their logins for other services, some money, or perhaps a combination of all 3. While many gamers who know their stuff won’t fall for those kinds of things, plenty of others will. Next week it’ll be promoting crossover deals with a service which went out of business a year ago. This week it’ll be a bot promoting a “red hot” offer from 2018. Their purpose is to hit the channels and drift forever, spamming all and sundry until they get a few hits. You’ll also frequently see bots pushing offers for things which simply don’t exist anymore. The messages run the range of free games, discount sign-ups for services, or just plain old fake login screens. Service users can create bots, those bots can be invited into channels, and then they get to work spamming. You may recall we’ve covered a lot of Discord scams previously. Discord, a group text chat/VoiP app of choice for many gaming communities, is having a bit of trouble with phishing links. A number of bogus offers are doing the rounds in Discord land at the moment.
