Because I've been receiving these for months now. The pattern is always the same: some random invites me to a group that I have nothing to do with, have no friends in, don't understand a word of what they're about, and it's always in Russian. This was the latest one. It's been ages since I last played a multiplayer game on a public server, so that can't be where they're coming from. Right now I'm more curious than annoyed, although that could change if it gets worse. Anyone else receiving mystery invites to Russian groups?

Update: Looks like these are scripted mass invites.

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Yeah, I get those once in a while too. No idea where they come from though

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about 1 each week
not all of them russian, but yes, mostly

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+1 I dont mind but most are Russian and I mostly only join groups that are/speak English

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Not always, not always Russian also.

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All the time. Pisses me off.

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Every 3 days, worst thing is that i accept accidentaly almost all of them, and im too lazy to leave :/

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This.

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That.

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These

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I've been getting a lot of invites to groups I've never heard of from people I've never spoken to on Steam recently as well. :S

It's probably because of the amount of games that we have on Steam. Most of the people doing the inviting and the admins of these groups have like 15 games and most are F2P games at that... Probably just looking to get free games.

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Only always

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Some groups just spam invites. I read the common thing is to report them. Whether it has results or not has not been confirmed.

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I reported one these inviters once. Their name format prevented you from linking to their profile, which was blocked anyway. 3 hours after I reported them, their name was changed to something generic/placeholder and they were suspended. Steam never contacted me about it though.

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Valuable knowledge right there. Cheers^^

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I did the same. Not sure what the result was.

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Constantly. And sometimes French ones. I actually just got an invite to that group you linked a couple hours ago. lol

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Same here :(

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yes, mostly russian then 1 french and 1 spanish group

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was invited to this group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BBPOfficial when I put tthis symbol in my name ☭

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Das Vidaniya! :P

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I just got 2 today :/

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3 today

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Yes idk why but who the hell cares

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I wonder what the requirements are to get spam invites as well. The only one I got was a while back after I opened my first giveaway.

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of course. It's their job to do so

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yes

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Yea. I respond with an invite to my own group. Depending on how annoyed I'm feeling that day, sometimes I'll drop into their discussion section and say how annoying it is when people spam invites to public groups.

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Aww, and none of them joined. :(

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a couple did join, but they left shortly afterwards. Sadly, I only had the idea to spam announcements after they had already left. Most just ignore it though.

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Awesome idea!

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yes

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Yes. About once every 2 weeks.

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Once a week!!!

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I'm normally the person inviting; I create fake polish groups and befriend random people.

Joking of course, I've only once been befriended by a Polish person, I did not understand him though.

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Getting those too, mostly from people that make money such way (it said so in their profiles). Especially annoying because I can't play multiplayer games anyway, due to my bad internet connection.

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Yes, and random other groups too. It's gotten to the point that I wrote on my profile for them to stop bugging me but, hey, who the hell reads that when mass adding people nowadays. -.-
And it's even more annoying and stupid when they invite you to some random chat. But at least then you can go in and call them a bunch of pests. ^_^

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