Scambots are back :(

"Level 0" means private profile, not their actual level.

That's odd. I have like 20 open trading threads and I haven't received bot invites in a very long time.

Those with private profiles shouldn't be able to add friends. No way to tell if they are a bot or not.

There will always be scambots, its just a matter of measures culling the amount of them. Do you have anything particularly valuable in your item inventory? I'd imagine that they're just more selective in who they target, profit-wise, since they can't just make new accounts like crazy.

I've blocked so many by now that I don't get more than 3 a day. Used to get 25+ easy.

Thank God I am not being spammed by bots. P

Haven't received any bot invites since Steam introduced those "must spent 5€ before you can do anything" restrictions :)

i bet this many friend requests is because of public steam groups,i checked your steam profile and you're in 66 groups.
i used to get a lot of friend request from private profiles and then i left some of the groups i was in,no more requests from bots :D

Haven't gotten any in a while. I'm kind of worried that they're planning a big assault on my poor, worthless account.

Havent had an invite in weeks tbh ...

That system is not perfect and there was a way to avoid that and be able to add ppl, so seems they found some way.

They never left. Those created before the new restriction still operate and you shouldn't be surprised if you keep getting those invites.

I get like 2-3 bots a day...that sucks

Guess I'm a lucky person :) no1 dares/tries to send me an invite....

ps.
Happy Straw Hat day Everyone !!!

I'm another who hasn't had any since Steam did their thang re: spending $5 etc.

Well scambots have really reduced since that $5 spending now only 1 or 2 comes every 2 weeks or so

I used to get just one a week, but I haven't gotten a single one since the Big Change.

I'm actually surprised that my rather loaded account is being "ignored". A few years ago it was pretty bad though... 15-20 bots per day.

I have the opposite problem. No one's accepting my invite

They never left actually, but instead of most being empty accounts created just for that end, now there are a lot of hijacked accounts still being used as scam bots.