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The real question: Why didn't she just make a new Discord account? It's free and stupidly easy.
It's not that hard to contact your old friends and tell them your account was hacked. In fact, that happens all the time.
I assume these are internet friends, otherwise yeah just talk at school and discuss the scam over phone or whatever.
It must be a lot of friends who don't all know each-other too.
If it's a bunch of friends on one discord server, surely it's not too hard to get back on to that same server and say "my account was hacked". But, if you have dozens of friends spread across many servers, you might not even remember the servers.
It's probably because we tell kids about how dangerous scams are and all the problems that can occur, but we don't teach ways to mitigate the issue when it does occur, the child was probably worried that all of their friends would fall for the scam and everyone would get in trouble, it honestly sounds like she was more concerned for her friends then she was about her discord account.
I've had adults act pretty much just like this, they are not well versed in how shit works but hear all the scary stories, so if things go a little wrong it is terrifying.
Remember, kids: If we taught you how to protect your privacy and recover from things like this, you'd also learn how to get around the censorship we impose upon you so stay in the dark and suffer.
When they don't understand they will trust in the broken support system to save them.
The fact that adults still believe in tech support is crazy to me.
There's been a spate of Discord-based hacking attempts lately, two of my friends have had to do this. They can't get their old accounts back, Discord is basically just ignoring them. Starting new accounts is easy.
The hard part is that they also lost their gmail accounts, that's a lot more important for most people to be able to recover. I recommend everyone with a gmail account do the "create an emergency recovery code" thing, print it out and store it somewhere safely off anything digital.
This is how Discord works.
I’ve two separate friends who lost access to their accounts. One lost it via hacking or social engineering, and the other lost access because their mail service shut down. Both long time users, with the subscription bullshit.
Both struggled with support, neither got their accounts back. Both made new accounts and continued paying the subscription. Absolutely bonkers.