Discord Impersonation

[Ally]

For the love of god, everyone is so intent on sticking to names and Discord tags for Discord impersonation checking.

Do not use peoples' Discord names and tags to check if the person is impersonating.

Why?

1. "Homoglyphs" are characters that may look identical, but are actually different. This causes people to be confused and gain the "same" name with the same number tag.
2. People can change their Discord #tag. This is confusing in itself.

What should you use?
Use Discord IDs. In order to do this, you need to go to your Settings menu down at the bottom left, and click it. From there, go to Appearance, scroll down and select Developer Mode:

You can check someone's ID by right clicking on them:

Click "Copy ID". Now find the person you're dealing with onsite, and get them to give you their ID. They should give it out to you. You'll know if the ID(s) is/are fake, too.

Next you need to use a string matching program/website to see if the IDs are identical. By all means do this yourself, but something like this: https://text-compare.com/, is faster.

Please don't get scammed via Discord kthxbye.

 

[Ally]

You need to enable developer mode to see ID's btw

Oh yes. Let me add this. Thank you for that, I forgot I had that on.

 

[Ally]

tl;dr
pm onsite

Well... kinda. I can make a profile post on my profile with my Discord ID, so that people don't have to PM me for Discord deals.

 

[Skye]

Easiest way to really do this is to PM the person asking for their discord. You add them, and then have them screenshot the PM. 2fa all the way baby.

 

[Ally]

Easiest way to really do this is to PM the person asking for their discord. You add them, and then have them screenshot the PM. 2fa all the way baby.

No, not really. Lol.

 

[Skye]

No, not really. Lol.

How do you figure?

 

[Annie]

Already knew how to do this but +1[DOUBLEPOST=1531101977][/DOUBLEPOST]Althogh using a text comparer is overboard you got eyes, use em

 

[Ally]

How do you figure?

Because it literally takes a minute to confirm IDs. This method doesn't necessarily require communication between both parties onsite. Yours does. :shrug:

But it is another way to confirm. So at least if you can confirm, you're all good.[DOUBLEPOST=1531115485][/DOUBLEPOST]

Althogh using a text comparer is overboard you got eyes, use em

If people are lazy or cannot do it as well as others, it's just fine.