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Jovel

Hello there!

You know when some random "person" adds you on Steam asking for you to trade with their "friend" and then click on a very convincing link? That's old by now...

Just a few minutes ago some random "person" added me but this time was different:

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random123: I am like your weapon , can you swap for my knife + weapon? (Look my knife + weapon screenshot)

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Is this "new method" relatively new?

Also, I know we're supposed to censor names here, it's a rule, but in cases like this, shouldn't it be permitted? I mean it for the sake of other people who might also get added by the same Steam account, that way they would know and could prevent bad things from happening... Just a thought.

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DeltaBladeX
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Its been mentioned, DON'T LOOK AT THE SCREENSHOT. Not a safe link.

10 years ago
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Jovel

I guess I missed it then. But just out of curiosity, what happens if one does so? Keylogger?

10 years ago
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mAgicH

This shits never ends.. :(

10 years ago
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MengCrap

I am very interesting
I am very boring

10 years ago
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Gabzilla

I get 3-4 friend invites from bots every day...
Do you think i memorize all their names, or that i would memorize the name that you would have posted here?
There's only one trick you need not to get scammed. Don't be stupid!

10 years ago
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Crocross

But it's so easy to be stupid :/

10 years ago
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Jovel

I wasn't refering to people who get added constantly or know how to deal with this. I was talking about people who might be added for the first time.
The ultimate defense would be not being stupid as you said, but since there's still people falling for this, I thought it could help.

10 years ago
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Aneszej

I'm kinda amazed how some people are smart enough to find ways to get free games, cheaper ways to get Steam CDKeys, but still fall for these ultra obvious scams..
I guess if you were drunk, or ultra sleepy, you could fall down for those steaRNcommuniRty links, but still.. uploading files from your PC..

10 years ago
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Aneszej

Basically, it's not a picture. They're using .htaccess, it allows users to edit appearance of the link, just like you can't see extensions on some sites, and on some sites you see ".html, .php" etc.. Same way they added fake extensions at end to make it appear as image.
I got no idea what it does tho.

10 years ago
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Jovel

I see... Well, better safe than sorry!

10 years ago
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Aneszej

Wise words.
Since I'm a guy who's bothered by having unread notifications, lately when somebody is adding me, if he's got private profile and is level 0/1 (not sure), I just insta-block him. It's easier to deal with them that way.

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Jovel

I'm the same way. But I usually accept the friend requests just to be sure, since they can only harm me if I let them to. Then I just block, tag them as "bot" and remove them. ^^

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Aneszej

Did so too, but 100% of all of those who added me were bots after accepting, so I started doing what I've mentioned. List is getting huge.

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