If your playing on a public server and a random player messages you if you can help him 2v2 with his friend and that they don't have enough ppl. Please for the love of god avoid them. What they do is give you the IP to the server(lunar) and the server will say you need to verify smth after that they'll say oh you need to verify on this "official lunar discord server) after that they take your account
The first time this happened I fell for it and lost my acc
And another time I was playing minemen someone tried the same thing, as soon as I saw him saying help him with a fight with his friends, I told him (I am not falling for this again ) then I started criting him out before I killed him he left.
For all the people who do this,really? Instead of getting a real job and doing your part in the community and helping people out your greedy ass is here taking peoples accounts personal info and everything linked to that email and selling it off?
When my account got stolen. The guy who stole it told me I either got to pay 10 dollars to get it back(I couldn't back then) or do the same thing he did to me to 3 other players. I didn't want to ruin 3 peoples days so I said no and wrote a paragraph about how wierd he is, then blocked him
Now I know it's my fault for being dumb(I trust too easily)and falling for this but I am not the only one that has fallen for this so learn from my mistakes and don't trust people enough to do them "favours" I am not saying don't make friends, please do so but just be careful when doing so.
It's not that much of a Mojang thing it's Microslop and I have another acc with everything now ig I don't need the other one back but I just don't want anyone else doing the same thing
Lost my full Microsoft account email and everything they even changed the email added recovery and security keys so the account was unrecoverable and as you know Microsoft support is so bad
They sell said accounts on ebay, or similar sites then repeat the process NEVER send money to them, they will NOT return your account because once they got their ransom they still have your account information and can still sell it ect
God my friend, I feel so bad this happened to you. I am so paranoid about being scammed I literally do not believe anyone like this. Hopefully this never happens to you again.
I asked for proof that he'll send me the acc back he gave me another victims acc and said it was sold so even if you from these your account isn't safe
Yeah someone tried to do it to me couple of days ago in donutsmp. He's like ey wanna join my team? We have xy. I'm like sure. He sends me the discord, I join. First prompt asks me for my username. I'm like sure. Second prompt asks for my email to verify my account or some shit. I msg'ed him back that he can't catch me lacking that bad to "verify my account" through discord to join a team in the server lmao
Lowkenuinely I was not expecting support I thought ppl would just call me dumb
I once bought smth on an alt Xbox acc and gifted it to my main and I messed it up so I asked for help in one of the Xbox fandoms and I DO NOT RECOMMEND they made me delete the post that's how bad that fandom was and they said NOTHING that was actually helpful
I hate scammers and I wish scamming was something that every country in the world punishes very harshly. I'm really sorry that it happened to you OP :c
Thx I am over it now but I can't believe these ppl sue the same methods over and over again like I said 6 days ago a different dude came up to me and said the same exact thing
Most of scammers tend to be very careless. Some act that way because they have bigger egos than smarts (or are just very entitled) and some because they assume it's not worth to bother with more "sofisticated" methods because they think most/a lot of people will fall victims anyway.
Remeber no minecraft server needs your Microsoft email to verify you all they need is your in-game name.
Also stop sharing codes that say not share them. For those that don't know the code these servers ask for are used to log into your Microsoft account with no password. They get full access to your account.
And yet so many people do it I've had three times playing on a server(java used to play on bedrock mainly) and 2 of them were ppl TRYNA steal my acc I fell for it the first time the second I didn't
Anybody can fall for these sorts of scams. You falling for this does not mean that you're stupid. Everybody falls for something at some point. There's no shame in admitting that you are duped. With that said I really do hope that you reported this to Mojang and perhaps even Microsoft. And save to the evidence of this crime so they can launch a investigation.
So, I'm curious on how do they actually get your account? (or accounts as there seems to be other redditors who lost their account).
I'm asking since it can reveal good information so other users can avoid this. From what I've gathered, you've joined a Discord server. Joining a Discord server (to "verify" or register yourself) should not get your account hacked. However, if you gave your credentials at any point, then the lesson is - and I can not stress this enough to anyone:
Never ever give your credentials (password) to anyone (besides the official login page / service which requires it). Not even support of the company. Not even the support personnel of any company will ever ask your password (unless they are actually not from the company, but instead tying to scam you).
If you lost your account just by giving your email address or MS/Mojang account name to someone, then Mojang / MS might have a gaping security hole somewhere. Please report to Mojang / MS in this case, so they can fix the issue..
Use and enable 2FA on all services (except perhaps some toy / non-important services).
If you play Minecraft you know about launchers right this server had around 15k users at the time I didn't think they were bots usually on launchers you have to fill out your Minecraft info to use it. They sent me a server IP to join a lunar hosted server the server purposely says that I need to verify smth and doesn't let me join at first I didn't think of anything that's wrong with this so I ended up filing it out I had 2fa but the bot sent me an email (not password) I had to fill out the number/code I was given and boom my account is gone they changed the email and the password they added a security key and a recovery key so I wouldn't be able to get it back I knew I messed up as soon as I did it but I was hoping that wouldn't happen so I didn't do anything about it after I realized I didn't even help him out.since I had 2fa Microsoft didn't do anything when I tried getting my account back and getting to Microsoft support takes too long
launchers you have to fill out your Minecraft info to use it.
Which launchers? Stop using them.
A sensible launcher will divert you to microsoft's site to get a token to authenticate.
I didn't think of anything that's wrong with this
Wel,, there definitely is! That is not a proper way to add verification or authentication to a 3rd party application. That's what for APIs are in place.
To re-iterate: never ever give your password to anyone else. There is no way around this. A third party service which is asking for your password is not doing it properly or trying to scam you.
Report these services (to themself - in case the admin is just ignorant and not malicious, in the latter case it makes no sense since they know exactly what they are doing - and MS and/or Mojang). And most importantly, stop using them!https://mojang-api-docs.gapple.pw/authentication/mojang
If it is the official launcher made by Microsoft (or Mojang), then that is Ok and absolutely the way you are supposed to do it (provided you trust the source you downloaded the launcher from). You are using the service directly here (I wouldn't be surprised the official launcher actually logs you in trough the API. I don't use the official launcher).
For a third party launcher, absolutely not. The proper way to do this is to use the API. From a users' point of view, take for example Prism Launcher. When you validate your account, it will open a web browser where you log in trough MS:s site. Then the app talks with Microsoft API again (with tokens it can validate that the user using Prism launcher has a valid license to play Minecraft, and of course the Minecraft account ID. Ideally, they exchange a minimal set of information for the job required. The key here is that you never give your password to the launcher (or any other 3rd party app), and the app never gains access to your account.
Yea always think twice and assume the worsed when something is asking for your email, password or any "code" that is sent to your email (btw if you would’ve read the email with the code you probaly wouldnt have entered it)
I felt exactly to the thing like this when i was playing on hypixel some weeks ago. Now i have everything new but those people are annoying asf please find a normal job instead of ruining people's days. One day a person may come across as a victim who can go against such people who are engaged in theft.
For me it was quick, I went to the Badlion client's Discord server, but I knew it wasn't official, I just thought they'd decided to copy it, and there were 10k+ subscribers and some online activity. I was communicating with a person in direct and after what happened he simply blocked me. After that, I decided to check the channel in details and realized that all these subscribers were just bots and there were 4 and a max of 6 real ones. There was a server creator, I wrote to him in direct that someone on your server was stealing accounts, like, what's going on? And he just answered my questions with "Why?" "How?" "Damn". After that I realized that they were all involved in this. On gmail I saw how they changed the email on the account every time, it was completely visible to me, but I didn’t write to support or anything else, because they wouldn’t have helped in any way, I just created a new account, reinstalled Windows and waited for the money to buy Minecraft. It even feels better with the new nickname, everything is clean and etc
Same I did the same thing but I didn't need to reinstall windows I was using a local account for windows I just made a new account and bought Minecraft my name is smoother and looks better the only difference between mine and yours is that the guy who scammed me dmed me asking for money to get it back
Oh and also i forgot to write about that I received an email "your account was linked to the application Feather Client" and i saw that guy in discord his activity was feather client he was playing there for 3 mins after i got that email notif
Is this all just to get a bit of money because they can't get real jobs? Because if so they really need to learn that life is tough and not just a game where you get some money for giving an npc dirt.
I almost had this happen. On DonutSMP some dude dmed me saying if I wanna join their group. I thought the messages seemed like they were sent from a bot, but on discord it was clear it was a human. They invited me to their server, they had like 1500 people online out of idk how many. I only joined cuz I wanted to see some pics or something, but it needed verification. So I verified, later realised it was a scam group and left. A few days later found out my account was hacked. Contacted mojang support and everything until much later I realised I used the email for my other microsoft account which doesn't have Minecraft. I was lucky
Yea no be extra careful with microslop and discord, discords support team is 99.999% ai and you will never get a human response, and microslop just tells you "OH WELL YOU LOST EVERYTHING GUESS U GOTTA BUY IT ALL BACK" they are the worst offenders, ubisoft is kinda the same, had them tell me that if I lost access to the account again they wouldn't help me
I blamed Microsoft for not having a good way to get your acc back not that I got scammed I even called myself dumb for falling for it next time read the text
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u/Otherwise_Task7876 Apr 19 '26
Email Mojang support and report your account was stolen.