What Happened
Brady Frey did not realize that his daughter lied about her age when she set up her Discord account.
Why It Matters
He only found out after her account got hacked and he got trapped in a spiraling support nightmare while trying to stop the hacker from targeting dozens of her young friends with financial extortion scams.
Key Details
- When Frey's daughter signed up for Discord, she was 12 and technically not old enough to have an account.
- But like many kids who, regulators have found, commonly lie about their age to access social media platforms, she didn't want to wait another year to join her friends on the messaging app.
- Hiding her age, she created an account that listed her as over 18 years old.
- Now 13, the teen had been happily using the app for months when she suddenly got locked out of her account after clicking on a link from an attacker posing as Discord support.
Background Context
Brady Frey did not realize that his daughter lied about her age when she set up her Discord account. He only found out after her account got hacked and he got trapped in a spiraling support nightmare while trying to stop the hacker from targeting dozens of her young friends with financial extortion scams. When Frey's daughter signed up for Discord, she was 12 and technically not old enough to have an account. But like many kids who, regulators have found, commonly lie about their age to access social media platforms, she didn't want to wait another year to join her friends on the messaging app. Hiding her age, she created an account that listed her as over 18 years old. Now 13, the teen had
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Source: Ars Technica – All content – Original Link
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