Last week someone in a Valorant trading server I sit in posted screenshots of a DM that opened with "hey, I think I accidentally reported your account?" He panicked, did what the message told him to do, and lost a Radiant account he had spent two years building. Same script is going around right now across Valorant Discord servers, and it works for one reason: it never asks for your password. It asks for a six digit code, which most people hand over without thinking.
This is the "I accidentally reported you" Valorant Discord scam. If you buy, sell, or trade accounts, you are exactly who it targets, because you already live in fear of a Riot ban.
How does the "accidentally reported you" Valorant scam work?
The setup is patient. A stranger from a server you share sends a friend request and just talks to you. Skins, ranked grind, the usual. Sometimes this goes on for weeks before anything happens, which is the part that throws people off later. By the time the scam starts, the person does not feel like a stranger.
Then the panic hits. They message you saying they reported your account by mistake, usually for cheating or fraud, and now Riot or Discord is going to ban your account and your IP. To sell it they will paste a screenshot of a fake support email, sometimes with a real looking case number.
Next comes the fake authority. They tell you a Riot or Discord staff member will reach out to sort it out, and a few minutes later a second account messages you with a name like "Riot Support Team" or "Discord Trust Safety". That account asks you to verify your identity. To do that, it says, you will get a code in your email or phone, and you just need to read it back.
The moment you send that code, it is over. They use it to reset your password or approve a login, and the account is theirs. With a Valorant account that means your skins, your rank, your store, gone in under a minute.
Why do traders fall for a scam this obvious?
Because the fear is real, and the scammers know it. Riot banned hundreds of thousands of accounts in its January 2026 wave, and anyone in the trading scene watched friends lose inventory overnight. So when a message says your account is about to be banned, the part of your brain that should be skeptical is already busy panicking.
The slow build matters too. A cold DM asking for a code gets ignored. A code request from someone you have been chatting with for two weeks, right after a scary report notice, feels like a favor between friends. That is the whole trick. They are not hacking your account. They are getting you to hand them the key.
What does the fake Riot or Discord "admin" actually look like?
A few things give it away every time, if you slow down long enough to look:
Riot and Discord do not DM you about bans or reports. Real moderation happens inside the client or by email from an official domain, never through a random user account.
No real staff member needs a code that was sent to your own email or phone. That code exists to keep other people out of your account. Reading it to someone is the same as giving them your password.
The "admin" account is almost always days old, has no shared history with any real server, and uses a name built to sound official rather than an actual verified role.
There is urgency on everything. Ban in 24 hours, act now, do not log out. Pressure is the tool, because a calm person checks before they click.
A genuine report, if one even existed, would never require you to talk to the person who reported you. Riot does not run user to user mediation for bans. That sentence alone kills the entire story they are telling you.
The code is the entire scam
Strip away the fake emails and the staff cosplay and you are left with one move: get the victim to read out a verification code. Email codes, login approvals, two factor prompts, password reset links, all of it does the same job. It proves to the system that the person typing is you. Hand that proof to someone else and you have given them your account, full stop. No legitimate process, on any platform, asks you to relay that code to another person.
So the rule is short. Nobody gets your code. Not a friend, not "support," not the person who swears they are trying to save your account from a ban they invented.
What to do if you get this DM
If a message like this lands, here is the exact play, in order:
Do not reply, and do not send any code, link, or screenshot, no matter how official the second account looks.
Block and report both accounts in Discord, the "friend" and the fake support handle.
Turn on two factor authentication using an authenticator app, not SMS, so a single code request cannot reset you.
Change your Riot password and your email password if you interacted at all, since email is the master key to the account.
Warn the server you trade in, with the usernames, so the next person who gets the same DM recognizes it.
The accounts worth stealing are the ones people spent years on, which means the people most exposed to this are exactly the ones in trading servers reading vouches and chasing deals. Treat any "I reported you by accident" message as a scam by default. There is no version of that story that ends with you safely reading a code to a stranger.