I received messages about an account that wasn’t mine, to an email address that wasn’t even the one I used back when I still had Discord.

It seems to be them, their address is correct, and is properly signed as far as I can tell.

What is even going on here. Come on, Discord.

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I got this too.

I have a Discord account. But I was never able to use it because they demanded that I enter a phone number. Can’t do that, I dont have a phone number for security reasons.

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They don’t let you use an account without a phone number anymore? Oh wow

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You can, but I don’t know how/when they ask for it. When I changed my email on my main a couple months ago they asked for a number. When I changed the email of an alt recently they didn’t, which was weird.

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Either way, I’m glad I don’t use it anymore. So much unnecessary data collection

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And you can’t delete it without a phone number

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FYI, that first screenshot is probably sufficient to make out your name, in case that’s your actual name

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Could’ve done that a bit better, that’s true. It’s not even my own name, which is why I painted over it in the first place

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Discord was (is?) rather aggressive about setting up new accounts. You could have clicked an invite link two years ago and it associated with your email and generated an account.

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The one account I had, I made on my own accord, no invites or anything. Didn’t even know invites were a thing

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I received the same two messages but with an alt account that was actually mine and haven’t used in like 2 years. Strange…

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