Context

Discord Crypto Casino Scam, also called Discord Crypto Exit Scam, Four Image Discord scam or sometimes called MrBeast $2,500 Crypto Scam represents a set of four low quality photos of a monitor posted as a message on Discord severs, initially exclusively by automated scam bots or hacked Discord accounts, which adhere to the following format:
– If the Discord server allows it, an @everyone ping
– A photo from the Twitter page of a famous online influencer such as MrBeast, Elon Musk or Kai Cenat with a photoshopped tweet announcing the release of a brand new crypto casino, promising all their fans a sign-up bonus of around $2,500 and a link to access the casino
– A photo of someone accessing the scam page and entering the promo code
– A congratulations screen announcing the redemption of their money, with the sum being displayed in a big font size and usually in green
– A checkmark with the title "Withdrawal Success!" and a phone being held by one hand on the right side of the screen with a banking app open, displaying their "winnings" in USDT (Tether).
To avoid having Discord ban the image, spammers took hundreds of photos from their phones and randomly cycle through them, resulting in similar (but not identical) posts.

Growth

The Discord scam was originally spread from people who downloaded cheating software or pirated games that were infected with a virus, after which their computers would start spamming every server they were on with the same Discord scam image template. Due to the usage of blurry images instead of text and usage of old, compromised accounts instead of burner ones, Discord's automatic moderation systems struggled to catch them, leading to Discord server moderators having to manually clean up tons of spam messages

Meme-ification

Due to the sheer amount of similar-looking four image scam messages being posted across almost all large Discord servers, people started recognising the format and creating parodies for it, abusing our pattern recognition abilities to make us believe that a scam message was posted on that discord server. Additionally, the growth of spam has lead to memes related to MrBeast, such as Fake MrBeast, growing significantly in popularity.

Various Examples