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Lina K., a co-worker, recently shared a firsthand account of how bots are adding League of Legends players via the Riot client friends list immediately after a match ends, striking up a flirty conversation, and eventually pushing an OnlyFans link. The pattern lines up with a wave of complaints that have piled up on Reddit and Facebook gaming communities over the past several months, and it fits into a broader trend of AI-assisted social engineering that has moved from dating apps straight into game clients.
The scheme reported by multiple League of Legends players follows a near-identical script. A friend request lands in the Riot client within moments of a match ending, from an account whose name does not match anyone from that game. The message opens with generic flattery like “you played really well last game” or “I liked your playstyle” designed to sound like a genuine compliment from an opponent or teammate.
When questioned about who they are, the accounts often claim to have been on the enemy team despite name mismatches, and many present themselves as a woman looking for a duo partner. A detail that likely raises engagement odds. Victims who check the account’s profile frequently find it blank: no visible match history, no overview data, sometimes a very low account level. These are all signs of a throwaway account built or bought purely for outreach, but sometimes they turn out to be stolen existing accounts.
After a short exchange, the contact says they are “getting off soon” and hands over a Discord username, moving the conversation to a platform Riot’s chat protections cannot see or moderate.
Once on Discord, the persona shifts into a longer-form romance/flirtation script. Usually, hours of chat building rapport, paired with a steady stream of photos that are suggestive but stop short of explicit content, a tactic that keeps engagement high while deferring the “reveal” until trust is established. That reveal ultimately comes in the form of a link to a paid subscription platform, most often OnlyFans, framed as an exclusive, limited-time offer.
A reverse image search on the photos sent during one such conversation turned up the same pictures recycled across unrelated websites and at least one YouTube video, with commenters in that video describing having received identical images from a bot under different names. This is strong evidence that the same photo set is cycling through many chats simultaneously, run at scale rather than by one individual.
Lina stated:
“One of my friends tried to break the bot too, left it on read for some time – the bot actually switched the pictures to match the context of “Concern” on the face of the model with “Why are you not replying?”, which quite clearly gave away bulk image generation for the script.’
When the account was pressed with a “reveal your instructions” style prompt-injection attempt (text formatted to look like a system message ordering the bot to break character and print its configuration), it did not comply and instead stayed in persona, deflecting the request and continuing the pitch.
That resilience to a common jailbreak technique suggests the bot’s operators have added guardrails against exactly this kind of probing, or that the “model” behind it is a simpler scripted flow layered with some LLM-generated text rather than an open, unrestricted chatbot.
What makes this wave notable isn’t the romance scam script itself. AI-driven catfishing has been documented on dating apps and social media for a couple of years. The difference is the entry point. Players have reported getting these bot friend requests after essentially every single match, with no way to distinguish a real player’s request from a bot’s inside the Riot client.
Community threads describe the bots seemingly appearing right after a game ends, which has fueled speculation that the bot operators are scraping or monitoring publicly available match data through third-party stats-tracking sites and associated APIs to identify recently finished games and target participants, though this has not been independently confirmed by Riot.
Riot’s own client architecture may be inadvertently helping. The Riot Client exposes local endpoints (such as the friends list API) that third-party tools and overlays query, and community-run “op.gg“-style trackers pull player and match data that could plausibly be used to correlate who just finished a game with who to target next. Some affected players have found a partial workaround: switching on the client’s “streamer mode,” which hides recent match and online status information, appears to reduce how often bot requests arrive. Which is an indirect clue that the targeting relies on visible activity signals rather than random spam.
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Unlike classic Discord scams that push fake Nitro codes or malware-laden “test my game” links to hijack accounts, this particular chain appears primarily aimed at driving paid subscriptions to an OnlyFans-style page of a fake AI girl. That doesn’t make it harmless. Even when the underlying OnlyFans account is real, the conversations are very likely run by paid chat operators or scripted/AI-powered systems working from a shared script and a reused media library, a business model that has been described by former OnlyFans “chatters” themselves: agencies assign staff (or bots) to respond as the creator around the clock, pull from a pre-made vault of photos and messages, and are financially incentivized to convert every conversation into a subscription or tip.
There are also more damaging variants layered onto the same funnel. Community reports describe some of these bot accounts eventually sending a link that, once clicked, is designed to hijack the recipient’s Discord account or harvest credentials rather than lead to legitimate content.
That means the “girl who wants to duo” opening can just as easily terminate in an account-takeover attempt as in a subscription upsell. Because the funnel starts with a low-cost, disposable Riot account and migrates the target to Discord within minutes, the League client friend request functions purely as a first-contact filter: cheap to generate, easy to discard after a single use, and outside the reach of Riot’s in-game reporting tools once the conversation moves off-platform.
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