Discord Nitro / Scamming

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So, I noticed that discord impersonators are increasing.

I started thinking, and realized.. What's stopping discord nitro users from copying the numbers and everything from the person they're impersonating?

I.e: Lets say I wanted to impersonate Capaldi. Well, his/her discord is Canyoning#9287. I have discord nitro. I could, hypothetically, change my number to #9287, and my name to Canyoning. Then what? I can easily scam people because nobody will know it's not Capaldi without checking.

People will go to Capaldi's profile, and say they scammed. And either A) Eclipse would be banned for scamming, and I would be fine. Or B) People figure out that I'm not Eclipse, and figure out I am BOOP, and I get banned for impersonating.

So.. what's stopping people from doing this..? Nothing.
 
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If there's someone with the name Canyoning#9287 you can't take it, you can take canyoning but not Canyoning.
People use this method to scam.
 

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If there's someone with the name Canyoning#9287 you can't take it, you can take canyoning but not Canyoning.
People use this method to scam.
Most people don't check capitalization. They just check whether it's the right letters + numbers. Doing this, would make it MUCH easier to scam as oppose to just changing their name...
 
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