Thanks for creating this :)
If only Valve were as serious about protecting users from scammers as they are about pretending to protect users from scammers, as a cover story for killing off cross region trading...
This sort of stuff should have been built into Steam as soon as the plague of no-mark scammer bots hit.
No wonder Valve were awarded an 'F' for their 'FU' approach to satisfying customers...
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An even better solution would be for Gaben to send one of his minions round with an electric cattle prod, and stream a video of the encounter to every poor fucker the newly electrified user ever added.
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A better solution is to block lvl 0 accounts from sending invites at all.
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Alternatively, users could be required to have a valid payment method linked to their account (and to have purchased a game using it) in order to use the "invites" feature.
This would upset a few people, but their sacrifice would not be in vain...
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That would piss me off personally. I use prepaid cards on steam and have been using it for over 8 years with thousands of dollars spent on the store since i started using it and i know i can't be the only person. That would probably top the list of worst possible ways to fix it they could do.
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Just no .
You cant auto block a users from his level or whatever, that's racist .
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Hope my friend you are doing a sarcasm, otherwise you should know more than anyone here about that. Btw In any appearance didn't feel like about racist but looks more than Steam isn't doing all his work as well to protect us our private accounts. Have nice day bro
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Are you idiot or .. a disrespectful idiot ?
I have my guess .
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Yeah...the race of Steam levels...i want to smoke the same stuff you do, mate ^^
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I love Enhanced Steam but didn't have a chance to use Steam Idle Master because it looks not safe for me (No offense sir) asking me to type my Id & Pw on a separate box.
I will definitely try Steam Invite Spam Filter. Thank you for your hard work. =)
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While I love your other 2 utilities, I am amazed that anyone gets that many bot invites to need an app for it, lol. I get an average of 1 every 3 to 5 weeks. I think bots are scraping public groups to get names to send invites to. I usually delete all old groups or any I have no interest in, that may be why.
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It depends on what you do around the web. I've known people who trade high value items on sites like TF2 Outpost, CSGO Lounge, etc. and get bot adds every time their trade is bumped.
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+1
Same. I get maybe one every 2 weeks. Might have something to do with inventory setting, if it's public or private. My guess is that they scan for valuable TF2/CS GFO items and send invites based on that criteria.
Also what velocity37 said
If you're active on TF2 outpost, after every bump it is a guaranteed visit from 2-3 bots.
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I wasn't getting many until recently, but now I get a few each day.
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Then you are lucky.
I think it depends on your public exposure.
Things that influence it:
How many friends you have
How many groups you are in
How many public forums link to your steamprofile
Your steamgifts rep and steamtrades rep
etc.
Possibly your steam level as well.
Possibly how many games you have. (makes bots think you are rich, hello all bundle games :P)
I get upwards of 5-6 random phishing invites each day.
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I share your dislike for FPS and MOBAs, still I get those invites now and then. Not as much that it would really really bother me, still enough to be annoying.
Thanks for your awesome work on improving the Steam experience, jshackles! Steam should hire you :)
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The only time I decline an invite is if they're level 0 AND a private profile. If it's only one, I accept it and just delete them if they hassle me.
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I used to add them, but every single one I have ever accepted that has both were just people trying to get my CS:GO items, so I just won't anymore haha. Even if it's a level 1 profile but it's private, i'd still add it. Just not private level 0's.
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your so awesome dude ^^ I love your idle master application as well as steam enchanced
hats off
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awww, and i thought it was only me receiving those bs invites. feeling so normal now.
@OP, your tools kick ass!
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should run on mono
EDIT: actually, it will most likely not run on mono, since he's p/invoking wininet.dll
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you would have to replace the majority of code in frmBrowser to use HttpClient (or similar) instead of API calls to wininet.dll
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It's kind of weird. I went to a private profile and it cut down the bots to nothing, then a few weeks ago, they started adding again, by the boatload. I did post to the Steam Community to assist someone, that is the only way I can see me getting bot attention.
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And how we are suposed to know if it work, there are an history or something ?
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Greetings SteamGifts!
You may remember me from the other Steam-related apps I've created, Enhanced Steam and Idle Master. Anyway, I know a lot of you have been frustrated with all of the invites everyone's been getting from bot / scam accounts, so I wrote a program that will act as a "spam filter" for these types of invites. I'm proud to introduce Steam Invite Spam Filter.
https://github.com/jshackles/Steam_Invite_Spam_Filter
The Idea is simple: download this program, log in, enable it, then leave it running (it will even minimize to the system tray). While it's running, it will periodically check to see if you have any new invites, and automatically "ignore" them if they match your criteria - currently either by a profile level that you set or "block all".
The program is open source and written in C#. You can even compile it yourself in Visual Studio if you'd like.
It's a new release, so there could be bugs. If you encounter any issues, please let me know here: https://github.com/jshackles/Steam_Invite_Spam_Filter/issues
I hope this helps some of you!
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