If your kid plays Roblox, they’ve almost certainly seen the offer. It turns up in a YouTube comment, a video description, a chat message from a “friend” or a flashy website: free Robux, thousands of them, just enter your username.

Robux are Roblox’s in-game currency, and kids want them for avatar items, game passes and anything else that makes their character stand out. That’s exactly why the offer works. And Roblox couldn’t be clearer about it. Its own help center says that any offer of free Robux, subscriptions or valuable items is a scam.

Here’s how these scams actually work, and how to talk to your kids about them before they click.

How a Free Robux Scam Works

Most of them follow the same script. A site calling itself a “Robux generator” asks for your child’s username and how many Robux they’d like. A progress bar fills up, the numbers climb, and the Robux look like they’re on their way. Then comes the catch: before the Robux can be “released,” your child has to prove they’re human.

That verification step is the whole point. Depending on the site, it might mean filling in surveys, handing over personal details, downloading an app, or typing their Roblox password into a page that looks like the real login. Roblox says the goal of these offers is to take the account and every Robux and item in it. The Robux never arrive, because there’s no such thing as a Robux generator.

This isn’t an old trick that has faded away, either. In one week in July 2026, NordVPN’s threat intelligence team counted 196 live Roblox phishing addresses, and one service selling ready-made fake Roblox login pages had more than 239,000 registered users.

The same trick comes in other costumes. Someone in chat claims to be Roblox staff and asks for login details. A player offers a rare item in a trade that happens outside Roblox’s official Trade feature. A message says your child has won a giveaway and just needs to “claim” it on another site. The details change, but the shape is always the same: something valuable for nothing, and a link that leads away from Roblox.

Here’s what one of these pages typically looks like, and what each part of it is really for:

Why Kids Fall for It

It’s easy to assume only very young children get caught, but these scams are built to work on anyone who wants the prize badly enough. The pages borrow Roblox’s look, some add a countdown timer, and the links can arrive from accounts that seem to belong to other kids. Watching a video of someone who “really got 10,000 Robux” makes it feel tested.

There’s a second problem. A child who realizes they’ve been tricked may stay quiet, especially if they suspect they’ll lose the game or the tablet for it. Meanwhile, the scammer has time to change the password, empty the account and lock them out.

What to Tell Your Kids

The most useful thing you can teach is one simple rule: free Robux don’t exist. Robux come from buying them in the official app or website, from Roblox gift cards, or from selling items and building games on Roblox itself. Anything else, however convincing, is somebody trying to get something from them.

Next, explain where their password belongs. It only ever goes into the official Roblox app or the real roblox.com login page. Roblox employees will never ask for it, and someone who claims to work for Roblox in chat but doesn’t have the official Admin badge is not staff. The same goes for the six-digit codes from 2-Step Verification: some fake login pages now ask for those too, so the codes are just as private as the password.

Then talk about links. Any message that pushes them off Roblox, whether it’s a giveaway, a trade or a “verification,” is a reason to stop, not click. They can report it with the Report Abuse button and move on.

Finally, make them a promise and keep it: if they ever click something they shouldn’t, telling you will never get them in trouble. The faster you know, the faster you can lock the account down.

Settings That Back You Up

Conversations matter most, but a few settings make a scam far less likely to succeed.

• Start with the account itself. Turn on 2-Step Verification in the Security settings, so a stolen password alone isn’t enough to get in. Roblox recommends using an authenticator app for the codes. Make sure the email address on the account is your child’s or yours, and that their Roblox password isn’t used anywhere else.
• For younger kids, link your own Roblox account to theirs. A linked parent account can set a monthly spending limit, receive notifications when money is spent, set a daily screen time limit and manage who your child can chat with.
• Outside the game, a parental control app can catch the links before your child ever sees the page. Salfeld Child Control, for example, filters websites by category on Windows PCs and Android devices, and for younger kids you can switch to a list of approved sites only, so a “generator” page simply won’t open.

If Your Child Already Clicked

Stay calm first. Your child came to you, and that’s exactly what you wanted.

If they typed in their password, log in through the official Roblox app or website straight away, change the password and turn on 2-Step Verification. Check that the email address on the account is still yours or theirs. If you can no longer get in, contact Roblox Support. If they downloaded anything from the site, run a security scan on the device. And if any payment details were entered on a site outside Roblox, call your bank or card provider the same day.

Then use it as a lesson rather than a punishment. Look at the page together and spot what gave it away. Next time, they’ll be the one pointing it out.

The Bottom Line

There is no Robux generator, no hack and no giveaway that needs your password. Every free Robux offer is a scam, and kids who know that, and know they can tell you when something goes wrong, are much harder to fool.

About the author

This article was written by the team at Salfeld, a German company that has developed parental control software for families since 1998.

Feature image by Magnific (magnific.com).