My online friend (19M from the UK) sent me (24F) a message on Discord with two links (which I didnât click on and wonât link for obvious reasons), paired with what appears to be fake news stating: âElon Musk donated $800 each: weâve created a project called âEXLYNA.comâ â enter the code 2026 and receive your reward.â There was also a screenshot of a CashApp account that had received the $800, plus two images of a âreward receivedâ screen showing the money added.
I believe my friend was hacked. I was a bit anxious because my friend hasnât been reachable since he sent those messages early that day. Itâs now been a week since he was last seen online anywhere, to my knowledge. Iâm assuming he was hacked and his account was taken over, but Iâve only found one other Reddit post in a different group with these exact screenshots.
Can anyone confirm this is a current scam/hack? Attached are screenshots of what I received.
For more context: who was involved was my online friend (who I suspect was hacked) and myself. What happened was my friend sent me the message described above in the early morning. I hadnât spoken to him in about two days. The message was randomly sent with no other context or contact after, even when I messaged him on other platforms.
This happened the early morning of March 29th, and itâs now April 6th, about a week after the initial incident. It took place on Discord, though I had no other odd contact from him across other platforms. When I asked other friends, they confirmed they hadnât received similar odd messages, so as far as I know, I was the only one who received it.
Iâm not sure exactly why this occurred, and I didnât suffer any repercussions from receiving it because I didnât click any of the links. I wasnât scammed or hacked just by receiving the message itself.
I wrote this post the way I did to tell the full story in coherent detail before going into specifics. Iâm providing pictures and detailed descriptions of them so people can look for these images if they encounter similar scams.