Discord Vanity Links Are More Dangerous Than You Think...

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HALT. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheakpoint Research Article https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/from-trust-to-threat-hijacked-discord-invites-used-for-multi-stage-malware-delivery/ SOCIALS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discord Server https://discord.gg/ntts Twitter https://twitter.com/notexttospeech TIMESTAMPS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.