Discord Vanity Links Are More Dangerous Than You Think...
16,603HALT.
Before you visit Pokimane's Discord server or another content creator's Discord server, double check you aren't being scammed.
Recently Discord scammers have been stealing people's custom Discord invite links / vanity links and using them to redirect people into getting their accounts hacked. And this Discord scam has been getting worse and worse throughout the years because Discord has stopped their partner program and verification program.
LINKS
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Cheakpoint Research Article
https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/from-trust-to-threat-hijacked-discord-invites-used-for-multi-stage-malware-delivery/
SOCIALS
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Discord Server
https://discord.gg/ntts
Twitter
https://twitter.com/notexttospeech
TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - PSA: Invite Links are spooky
00:34 - How Vanities Get Stolen
03:33 - Discord is making it worse
04:17 - Stealing technique the 2nd
05:39 - Other Scam Targets
07:15 - Getting Scammed...
10:03 - How to Protect your Server
10:57 - Acceptance... with some rules
11:56 - The Nerdy Solution
Correction:
10:35 For Wick, Discord removed the ability for Discord bots to change the vanity link. Instead Wick will quarantine a user that changes the vanity link.