Friendly reminder against Scams / Harassment
@Memberss, it's time to educate you all, that your privacy matters the most!
This Discord server is made to make sure, that the community involved in it won't get any harm, while maintaining a stable community. Now that the Moderator / Admin team are trying to push more security features in, along with fixing some of the security features too, more and more harassment is happening behind the Moderator / Admin team's eyes.
I, Cellegen, organizer and administrator of Teeworlds Data, ask you to report us any suspicious behaviour from anybody, who might be also on our Discord server. Please, send us reports, so we can keep our community a safer place. Thank you.
To do against Scamming / Harassment:
Set your Privacy and Safety option to "Keep me safe"!
This usually prevents scammers to spread word overtime, as in the client is scanning explicit content, to make sure, that you are safer.
Turn off "Allow direct messages from server members"!
This will make sure, that no random person, besides your friends, can message you / harass you with anything. To let some people message, you must accept a friend request from them, but it's way safer, than letting unknown people message you instead.
Make sure you only click on websites, if you know it's legit!
There are young people in this community, who doesn't know anything about websites, and they blindly follow anything that the website wants them to do. I ask you to NOT CLICK ON THEM, and make sure you send it to the right people (Moderator / Admin team) to check out, if it's legit.
Do not worry, if it involves your account(s)!
If a random person contacts you about your account or accounts being hacked / banned / reported, do not listen to it at first sight. Check your Email address and see if you've got a message from Steam, Facebook, Youtube or Discord (So basically Email from the correct company) if you have anything to do with your account. Do not follow instructions, if you haven't done anything, which can get you hacked, banned or reported.
Do not open files, even .rar or .zip folders from strangers!
Some applications are easily detected by Windows Security or any other good Anti-virus software (Panda, Kaspersky, etc.) if it contains malicious content, like running a script by running the program. In this case, a Zip folder (Compressed folder) can also run a script, if it's made for the purpose of running a script. Some applications also can be camouflaged into a ".zip" or ".rar" format, which means that it might be easily a ".exe" file, trying to hide itself as a ".zip" or ".rar" folder. In this case, even trying to run it won't do much, other than having a pop-up on Windows Defender (If you have it on!) or with any good Anti-virus.
Be careful with the sizes and be careful about always having protection on your PC. It is necessary to protect yourself from harm like this.
(NEW!) Disable friend requests for everyone on the Friend Requests panel via Settings!
Set your friend requests for "Friends of friends" and "Server members" only and get rid of that "Everyone" option there! There are possibilities that people get random people's IDs and use them to send random bots to their DMs and harass them that way, regardless if you were not part of a server, where it happens frequently. It's just a safety measure and we recommend using only the last two options, since us, the Moderator and Admin team will throw the responsible person out of our server. If your friends know about scams and such, then it's a much less possibility for them to be hacked, due to their experience, but I won't claim 100% safety over any link which does not look identical to what it advertises it to be. This option allows you to handle from where you get friend requests from. Neat!
(NEW!) Report any server which has malicious links in them to Discord's Trust and Safety!
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000168351 -> this link will send you to the Trust & Safety category, where you can see explanations and actions of different malicious activity reports that can be done. Make sure to use it accordingly, reading all warnings and texts and only report, whenever you feel like it's 100% fits to the report that you're about to send. You'll help us with this case tremendously. Thank you.