Online scams can cause real financial harm to people, so we work hard to keep Discord a safe place where users can connect with their communities without worrying about being deceived for illegal or dishonest purposes. Users may not use our service to promote, coordinate, or carry out any type of financial scam.
Financial scams exploit individuals through false promises of goods, services, or other financial benefits. Common examples include Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, advance-fee fraud, market manipulation (including "pump-and-dump" schemes), romance scams, employment scams, and phishing scams.
For example, you may not post, share, or engage in:
Malicious Conduct
We want users to enjoy a safe, secure experience on our service. Therefore, we prohibit any activity that could damage or compromise the security of accounts, computer networks, or systems. We use the term malicious conduct to refer to these types of activities, which includes, but is not limited to, phishing, malware distribution, and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
Phishing is a deceptive technique used to trick others into revealing sensitive information such as login credentials or payment details. Individuals may phish for information with manipulated links or fake websites that appear genuine to convince targets they are trustworthy. Malware refers to any type of software used for malicious purposes — including theft of account credentials and other sensitive information. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks overwhelm a target with traffic to make the resource temporarily or permanently unavailable.
For example, you may not post, share, or engage in:
Fraud Services
We permanently remove fraudulent services and efforts to facilitate illegal behavior when we discover them. We define fraud services as coordinated activities designed to generate fraudulent profits at others’ expense. Profit may include monetary gains or property obtained from third parties.
Users may not offer access to illicitly-obtained goods — including, but not limited to account credentials, credit card information, personally identifiable information, and cracked commodity goods. Coordinated efforts to defraud businesses, price gouging, forgery, and money laundering are also not allowed.
For example, you may not post, share, or engage in:
How to Avoid Violating These Policies
Please report and leave servers dedicated to any of the violative content described above. Discord may take action against accounts that are present in violative servers.
We take violations of these policies seriously and will take statements of desire or intent to engage in illegal activities at face value.
Don’t send malicious links. This includes “IP grabbers” and other tools that try to collect other people’s sensitive information
Don’t engage in fraudulent activities. This means somehow trying to generate a profit at the expense of others
Don’t participate in communities selling commodity goods that may have been stolen or illicitly obtained
How to Report Violations of These Policies
Reporting safety violations is critically important to keeping you and the broader Discord community safe. All Discord users can report policy violations right in the app by following the instructions here. For more information on these policies, please reference our Community Guidelines #20, #21, and #22.
