But, of course, it will never go into profit and the scammer has probably just made hundreds (or, Odin forbid, thousands) from you buying worthless crypto or stock that you are never going to make a financial return on. They will usually DM you claiming that they have “insider knowledge” or something similar about a cryptocurrency or other trade that will soon spike in value, so you should invest in some right now in order to profit later.
Shilling scams: These scammers mostly target servers relating to cryptocurrency and stock trading. A good community server enforces policies such as “official staff will never DM users first” to try and help you identify these scammers. The purpose of this is to try and gain funds or account details from you. When a user asks for support in that channel, the scammer will pounce on them with a DM, claiming to be an official support representative of that community. Support scams: These scammers will prey on a server’s official support channels. Or they may ask for funds along the lines of “send us £500 and we’ll double it to £1,000!” - I shouldn’t really need to tell you that this sort of thing is fake, right? Check the community’s official announcement channels and social medias for any genuine giveaway announcements, don’t just jump on the bandwagon because some random person told you about it. These “giveaways” will probably try to get you to share account details. Giveaway scams: Similar to the two previous points above, some scammers my privately or publicly share a link to a “giveaway” or to a server that is claiming to be hosting one. Calm down - nobody is going to give you a free rare Fortnite skin or an expensive premium CS:GO in-game item for nothing, it’s a scam. These are easy to detect as they will often have spelling errors in their links, for example “Strean” instead of “Steam”, “Tvvitch” instead of “Twitch”, or “Nitr0” instead of “Nitro”. 
They are generally someone claiming to give away free games, free game content, free game accounts and free Nitro gifts.
Twitch, Steam and Nitro Giveaway scams: These scams may take place in either DMs or in public channels on servers.These scams are predominantly sent out by bots who will raid a server with poor security and immediately DM its users. Cryptocurrency scams: These scammers will send you a DM that (usually) claims that you have won a giveaway of some sort, where the prize is cryptocurrency funds, usually but not always Bitcoin.Here are some examples of the most common scams you may experience on Discord: It usually depends on the intention of the scammer and the purpose of the Discord server that the scammer is targeting.
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