HoneyPot

DO NOT SEND MESSAGES HERE
This channel is used to detect automated accounts.
Any message sent here triggers an automatic sanction (Softban).

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RaidProtect's HoneyPot (or trap channel) is a channel where no one should write. Since real members know to stay away from it, the only ones who post there are hacked accounts or spam bots: RaidProtect sanctions them automatically.

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You already have ScamLens by default. The ScamLens anti-scam is active on your server with no configuration at all: it specializes in scam images, detecting them, deleting them, and sanctioning the compromised account with very high reliability. For image-based scams, ScamLens is more than enough on its own. The HoneyPot is mainly useful if you want maximum security and to block the other types of spam: link spam, text raids, bots.

❓ How does it work?

When you enable the HoneyPot, RaidProtect creates a text channel at the very top of your server, with a clear, randomly picked name. This channel has three characteristics:

• Anyone can write in it, including members who have not yet passed the captcha. This is intentional: a hacked account or a bot must not be able to avoid the trap.
• A warning message is posted when the channel is created, with a "Translate" button so everyone can read it in their own language.
• A public counter displays the number of accounts already caught by the trap, updated automatically.

As soon as a member posts in this channel:

• RaidProtect applies the sanction you have chosen (ban, softban, kick, timeout, jail, or mute).
• The messages sent by this member in the past 10 minutes are deleted across the whole server, to stop the spam if it has already spread to other channels.
• The action is added to the auto-moderation logs (reason: Spam via compromised user account).

🛠️ Setting up the HoneyPot

1. Run the /settings command.
2. Click the "HoneyPot" button.
3. Click "Create the channel": RaidProtect creates the channel, sets up the permissions, and posts the warning message.

Once the channel is created, you can:

• Regenerate the channel: deletes the old one and creates a new one (with a new name). Useful if you suspect a member has shared the trap channel's name to help other accounts avoid it.
• Disable: deletes the channel and turns off the feature.

Choose the sanction

Several sanctions are available:

Sanction	Effect	Availability
Ban	Removes the member from the server and deletes their recent messages	Free
Softban	Bans then unbans: deletes the messages, but the member can come back	Free
Kick	Removes the member, who can rejoin freely	Premium
Timeout	Prevents the member from speaking for a chosen time (max 28 days)	Premium
Jail	Assigns the Jail role configured on your server	Premium
Mute	Assigns the Mute role configured on your server	Premium

For sanctions with a duration (Ban, Timeout, Jail, Mute), you can pick a ready-to-use duration (from 5 minutes to 28 days) or a custom duration via the dedicated button (for example 5m, 1h, 2d; minimum 1 minute).

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The Softban is a good compromise: it cleans up the messages and removes the hacked account, but the legitimate owner can come back once their account is secured.

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Only Ban and Softban let Discord natively delete the hacked account's messages everywhere on the server in one go. For the other sanctions (Kick, Timeout, Jail, Mute), RaidProtect has to perform a manual cross-channel deletion, which is much more costly on the bot side, so they are reserved for Premium servers.

Ignored members

You can choose who is not sanctioned when a message is posted in the HoneyPot:

• No one (default): everyone gets sanctioned, even staff. Only members the bot cannot moderate (role higher than RaidProtect's) are automatically spared.
• Staff: members with the Administrator, Manage Server, or Manage Channels permission are not sanctioned.
• Members ignored by Anti-spam: RaidProtect reuses the Anti-spam list. If the list is empty, it falls back to "Staff" mode.

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In every case, RaidProtect never sanctions itself or other bots. Bots do not trigger the HoneyPot.

🤝 HoneyPot and ScamLens, better together

RaidProtect already includes ScamLens, which analyzes images and deletes the ones that are known scams (crypto, fake giveaways, fake casino promotions).

The two work hand in hand:

• ScamLens runs first. If the image posted in the HoneyPot is already known, ScamLens is the one that deletes the message and sanctions the compromised account; the HoneyPot sanction is not applied on top.
• The HoneyPot takes over for everything else: new images not yet known, link spam, mass mentions, text raids, bots.
• Every new image caught by a HoneyPot enriches ScamLens, which can then block it across all protected servers.

ScamLens is already active by default on your server. Enabling the HoneyPot doesn't break anything: it simply complements what is already there, and it helps RaidProtect protect the whole community better.