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How should you respond if someone asks you to move a conversation to another platform?

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When someone you have met on Reddit asks you to move your conversation to Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, a different website, or another platform outside Reddit, the appropriate first response is to pause and evaluate the reason for the request before complying. Requests to move off-platform are a standard element of several common scam patterns and should not be treated as neutral suggestions. The most common scenarios where this request is a warning sign involve cryptocurrency investment scams, romance scams, and fake customer service impersonation. In cryptocurrency and investment scams, the move to Telegram or a proprietary "trading platform" is where the actual scam is executed, because those platforms lack Reddit's reporting infrastructure and are harder to monitor. In romance scams, moving to private messaging on another app isolates the target from the Reddit community's potential skepticism and allows the scammer to build a more intimate communication dynamic. In fake support scenarios, moving off-platform to "troubleshoot" your account is the step where credential theft occurs. There are legitimate reasons someone might want to continue a conversation in a different format — a shared interest group on Discord, a voice chat for a gaming community, or a private message thread for a personal conversation that deserves more privacy. The difference lies in context and timing. A request to move that comes from an established community member in a relevant context, with a clear reason related to the conversation topic, is meaningfully different from a request from a stranger who has just messaged you after you posted publicly about a financial problem or personal crisis. As a general principle: never share information on another platform that you would not share on Reddit itself, and never access external links sent in DMs without first verifying through independent means — by looking up the service's official website directly rather than clicking the link provided — that the destination is what the sender claims.

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