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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I have gotten couple russian group invites but there have also been 3-4 bulgarian group invites, by people i have never seen or heard of and no groups or friends common.

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Every other day...

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Yeah. I don't know why.

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yes.

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It's program - autoinviter, Multigroup rules and another.

Some about it - ruforum

So - have fun!

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So it's a scripted thing... I should have known. Thanks for clearing that up!

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I ran the text there through Google translate, this is what I got:

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Steam Grabber-Inviter, software to automatically collect information about users of steam, and the automatic invitation to the group.

Features:
1) Leap groups of any size in a text file
2) Quick search of more close to you friends
3) Flexible filtering lists of users (number of hours of play, by the presence of games, groups, etc. in the profile), their display and storage
4) Record the current position of the search / invitations / filtering for the closure of the program
5) you can invite users to groups
6) You can filter the invited users right in their invitations.
7) You can set the interval invitations
8) Record the last authorized account
9) Easy selection group for the invitation (issued only to those groups that are in the account, which will be sent to the invite)
10) Logging breaks and innovative responses from the server
11) In the event of a disconnection, wait, when it appears, but then continues to run. You can leave at least a month and not steamed with departures Internet.
12) Prevents the group lock on the invitation. If the user does not receive logs a warning. It is therefore recommended not to put an interval less than 30 seconds.
13) displays a lot of data about the current state of search / invitations / filtration
14) guest logs in a specific group of users, so as not to invite them again. (File handle is not recommended, or you will waste time re-invitation)
15) Ability to load the list of invitees from several groups. The resulting list is stored in a single file.
16) High availability for work.
17) To work does not need Steam, proxy (optional, if you have many threads), etc. Just Internet connection.
18) In case of change of steam rolling program, free updates.
19) Minimize to tray. Friendly graphical interfeys.Pri restart saves all settings at the time of closing.
20) Easy multithreading software (included for an additional fee)
21) Auto-update program.

No account or group for promotion never banyat!

Learn the actual price, try the program, you can read the terms here.

http://villain512.net/software/steamgi/

To work needed NET Framework 3.5, if it is not installed and the program does not run, then swing
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... etfx35.exe

To contact: ICQ 222512, Skype Villain512

I ask for you. From 100 per 3000 invites sent (3000 = 1 day invites promotion) invited only active acca, with the recent online, so the number entered will be appreciated. If you choose only one day, then 150rub.

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Hot damn. So some dude actually charges money for this, and there are people out there who actually pay him. Crazy world.

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Some people eat another people. Crazy world X_x

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well I guess this is one of the reasons why steam community servers are getting errors, looks like its dosing steam servers

11 years ago
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No, it's EA!

11 years ago
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Damn it costs money? There goes my plans to use it as a mass birthday party page inviter. Now how are Steam users gonna be aware its my birthday?

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Do you (or someone else) know if that's allowed by Steam?

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I can't imagine that Steam would condone this kind of behaviour. I'm going to file a report and make them aware of the issue when I can be bothered. (Just received another uninvited invite as we speak, lovely).

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Damn Russians.

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I was about to call you out on that but then I saw your profile.

11 years ago
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They're random spammers and should be banned from Steam.

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I am russian speaking and get invitations to your english group, so do not complain to us

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Yeah, but rather get invited to a group you can understand, instead of some foreign language group you don't speak.

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I get a few invites to random russian groups a week.

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Never happened to me.

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Haha, I just got another invite after reading this.

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Yep. All day every day.

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Yes. Same goes for groups that are not Russian.

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I get these too.

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stoopid russians ))

11 years ago
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Yep, and somehow everyone of them is called "Admin", I wonder...

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I got at least 40 one day. It took me 30 minutes to decline them all.

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Yeah...russians...

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I get invited to random groups all the time, and the majority of these invites are in foreign languages despite hte majority of Steam's users being English-speaking. Russians are very overrepresented, but not the only ones I get. I get a lot of invites from groups whose pages are written in Portugese too.

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Never, thankfully.

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yes i have spam invite of those asshole, allways russians, fuck it, all i wish is to punch their faces of moron!!sometimes i'm about broke stuff around me !

i got from 1 per week to 2 per day, it depend... i keep report them to steam, sometimes i add the guy to insult that fucker or spam his profile. or if he play a game ill try to get him kicked from the game or i'll try to annoy him ingame until they leave.

but i'm looking for a better way to annoy them as much as i can, any ideas ?

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nearly every week T_T

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Yeah and i ignore them every time XD...

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Closed 11 years ago by emotionengine.