All of you must be using steam casually and all and you probably love this steam app, but now there is a risk there is a strike of bots who is sharing fake URL Link to scam you and take your Steam Account Maybe today or tomorrow you will notice that someone will add you and ask you to go to a URL so he can "Trade" With you, but the only thing he will actually do its phishing and take away your Steam Account to avoid that you got to be careful and always pay attention to the URL that people share with you today someone tried to scammed me but because I kind Elder in steam I knew right away that, that was a scam the way you can avoid this bad experience that you always got to compare with the original URL of steamcommunity.com and not fakes like stearncornmunity.com a bit send me that message today and I came here to warn you I had reported that Bart and I hope that steam will do something with this http://tinypic.com/r/ra6hpw/8 here is they try to scam me but I caught him in a second please watch out guys from those busters and have a really great day.

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Thanks for the heads up! ;)

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ok

10 years ago
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Those are called phishing bots. Nothing you do is going to change the fact that they exist.

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this is old, but remove the link.

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I see.

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That happened to me but I'm a little smarter than that, I blocked the account and reported them to Steam, I suggest everyone else do the same.

10 years ago
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And please turn on Steam Guard, it's there for a reason.

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well, atm these phishing bots can bypass steam guard so unless steam add some kind of for example mobile authenthication (why the hell they didn't do so so far?) it won't save you. Atm these sites will DL you an executable file called SteamGuard.exe or something like that, and this file is a malware that copies SSFN files (SteamGuard verification files) from your steam folder and sends them to phisher. Using them he can easily bypass SteamGuard pretending to use your vberified client. Just don't click these links and move along, thats all you can do atm (reporting won't change much either, how hard is it to create next few dozens alt phishing accounts?).

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Didn't know that thanks for the info, I'm usually pretty careful about using the internet but it's good to know.

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you should not report those accounts, they are victims that fell to the phishing..

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That's their problem not mine, Steam customer service will sort it out. Reporting them will help make sure others aren't exploited the same way.

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You're wrong not to report them. How will they know about it if you don't report them? Steam support can help the hijacked user, and stop the phisher at the same time.

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Exactly.

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I heard that after the people that fell for this phishing got their account back they had to deal with the support again to remove the reports..

10 years ago
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So not reporting it and having more people get their account taken is better than one person chatting with customer service?

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And your point being?

10 years ago
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Hello to you too.

10 years ago
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Remove the link or you get suspended!

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he should not remove the link since its necessary for giving an example to what he is saying

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but the link is calling out (even worse, probably wrongfully calling out, as phishers usually impersonate other traders). He could give an info of the same value without calling out other user by his steam name (censoring name in chat).

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Hi mate

10 years ago
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Remove the link and use punctuation marks

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looks like he scammed you of your punctuation ....... :P
JK

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I feel like there should be a mandatory internet 101 course for every human at this point -_-.

Craps been around for ages.

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