Hide your crypto: Infamous ‘try my game’ Discord scam on the rise

An X user known as Princess Hypio said they lost $170,000 in crypto and NFTs to a scammer who infiltrated a Discord server and pretended to have mutual friends.

Last month, crypto user and NFT artist Princess Hypio told her followers she lost $170,000 in crypto and non-fungible tokens after a scammer convinced her to play a game with them on Steam. 

While she was “mindlessly” playing with the scammer, they were secretly stealing her funds and hacking her Discord. The same tactic was used on three of her other friends, she wrote in a post on Aug. 21 on X. 

It turns out, the tactic has been around for a while and is known by some as the “try my game” scam, which users have been reporting for years in different forms.

Speaking to Cointelegraph, Kraken’s chief security officer, Nick Percoco, said these methods have become an increasingly popular attack method

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