Discord Is the World’s Most Important Financial Messenger, Hotbed for Scammers

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n848/discord-is-the-worlds-most-important-financial-messenger-and-a-hotbed-for-scammers

by jbegley • 4 years ago

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phoe-krk• 4 years ago

Article title: Discord Is the World’s Most Important Financial Messenger, And a Hotbed for Scammers

Article heading: Rampant spam, phishing attacks, scammers, and malware—Discord has a lot of challenges securing crypto projects.

So, according to the article, finances = crypto.

Seriously? I don't even have words to respond with anymore.

heretogetout• 4 years ago

I'm not sure what a financial messenger is but if it means a real time chat system for people interested in finance the title and heading are not necessarily incongruous. Maybe real time finance chat[0] is focused on crypto these days? Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

0: edit: I meant to include "free" somewhere around here.

wincy• 4 years ago

This title seems like clickbait, I’m pretty sure a Bloomberg Swift terminal (which they even say in the article!) is the worlds most important financial messenger. This is just self important crypto clickbait from Vice.

hnbad• 4 years ago

This is also a feature, not a bug. There are plenty of other options for crypto yet they flock to Discord because it's an easy way to generate hype and attract "investors": the person most likely to buy into your crypto scam is someone who's already invested in other crypto scams.

Just the other day I saw someone joke that the tech crowd monitoring the failures of web3 should organize using a decentralized platform like Matrix because of the irony of all crypto/web3 communities (supposedly all about decentralization) using Discord as a centralised platform.

tchock23• 4 years ago

I believe someone did launch a decentralized version of discord for crypto, but it didn’t take off because the greater fools aren’t there already.

InefficientRed2• 4 years ago

Spam invites to Crypto/bitcoin Discord servers has made most messaging services, including SMS, basically useless for me. "Join our BTC discussion group!!1!" == the new Nigerian Price.

hammyhavoc3• 4 years ago

Can you not utilize a whitelist on your phone so anybody not in your address book/contacts goes to spam?

InefficientRed2• 4 years ago

No; I use that number for inbound business.

tormeh• 4 years ago

Unrelated to crypto bros, Discord is just the best messenger for groups. It being used by business is inevitable, as it just outmatches Slack, and obviously Teams.

captn3m0• 4 years ago

Most importantly, Discord is free for large orgs, and is not priced per user even for extra features.

hammyhavoc3• 4 years ago

Name one publicly traded business that uses Discord.

leach• 4 years ago

I had to turn off direct messages from people I don’t know. I still get constant friend requests from scammers trying to get my crypto.

To be fair, anyone holding their own keys needs to be top notch on their opsec. So they should be wary of any random messages anyway.

Discord Is the World’s Most Important Financial Messenger, Hotbed for Scammers

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