How to avoid phishing bots?

Protip: You can't.

block

Block them all.

Generally you can't. Even making your profile private will never work because people can still add you.

Do you make posts on the steam discussion areas? You'll get bots if you do.
Do you make posts on any trading sites? You'll get bots if you do.
Do you have a steam account? You'll get bots if you do.

Many bots are designed to look for posts in the discussion area and trading sites. But there are a few that are designed to use a list of account numbers and add people that way, the account numbers are generated with a program and then it just goes down each line and tries to add that account. So even if you are not posting anywhere, its possible that you could still get added. These kinds of bots are rare.

Bots are starting to have a few new tricks. I've seen a few bots that were on steam for 3 or 4 years. Had hours played in games, and had 10 or so games. Most if not all the games have been free at one point or another. They were also not level 0, they were level 5 or 6. I think at least some of these were bots that were used back during the amazing winter sale that had coal and lots of games were given away free by crafting coal. I've had 3 of these bots in the last week alone

I had a bunch come at me at once, then nothing. May have had something to do with this?

I found that setting your profile to private/friend's only helps.

Dont go near water

I think this bots add ppl randomly from trade websites like tf2outpost or csgolounge, Always one of em add me just after I bump my post.

Today was really funny cus one of em has a csgolounge profile picture, and talked to me like a mother fudge bot.... I was like "really nig***, and thats not the best thing, he sent me a trade offer with a TRADE CODE just like a csgolounge bet with my item.

I always accept their friend requests and wait for their message with their fake / scam links, after that I copy everything and fill the steam report form as pishing with it.... block and unfriend.

Its fairly simple, just don't accept anyone. Allow public comments on your profile and if it's important they can comment first. That's what I've been doing for months now.

Block everybody who has private profile, or lvl 0 or lvl 1 profile.

Random adds by level 0 or 1 users? Private profile? Only one game, not even TF2? No profile description? Only friends are relatively high level Steam users?

Block.

If people can't be bothered to leave a message on my wall as to why I should accept them as a friend, I can't be bothered to accept their invitation.

The experience on the site Stiam less than a year, my profile isn't rich, but I am not a bot. Level not an index of a live account.

disconnect from earth internet and go to space internet, aliens are not capable of phishing yet