I still don't know why people go to links that random people put. It makes no sense!
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It was a community link like: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/ only with a slight variation.
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I've had same conversation with someone recently. The person who sent me such link have already been in my friendlist before though. Don't know what was the truth but as soon as I asked why did he link me this phising website he said it wasn't hm and that someone hacked his account...
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Good thing steamcommunity has no l, or else people could just write a capital I (i), they look the same in the steam font steam font
They even look the same in the forum
iIlL
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I don't know what's worse, the people who fall for this or the people who post these threads.
The scam relies on people not reading and clicking the link. If they can't take the time to read what a random person who just added them out of no where sent, why would they bother to read your thread?
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You fail to see the point. It was not out of nowhere and it was not out of the ordinary. This was in connection with a trade on steamtrades.
I don't what what is worse. The people who post random comments without reading the original post, or the people posting random comments even after have read the original post.
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Actually, I think you failed to see my point. Even if they aren't random, that doesn't change that the person didn't bother to actually read the link which is much shorter than your post. I realize you have 80+ rep on SteamTrades so clearly you're not new to trading, but unfortunately I've been around a bit longer.
I apologize for questioning you with some logic though. Just pat yourself on the back and think you did something special.
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What's worse is that when you click on a link that's not part of the steam network, YOU GET A HUGE FUCKING WARNING EVERY TIME unless you were dumb enough to disable that warning the first time you saw it.
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The scam being described is one where you are added by someone who then claims blah blah blah and post a fake steam community link IN THE CHAT WINDOW.
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So some random guy adds you and tells you that his friend supposedly has some great offer but (conveniently) can't add you himself because Steam is being buggy? A warning alarm to be suspicious should go off right there to anyone who has half a brain. Nevermind some bogus link.
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You are missing the point man. That's one of any number of classic ploys that scammers use and there is always some 'excuse' for something or other, which automatically raises a caution flag. Could they be telling the truth? It's possible. But I'd rather play it safe and assume they aren't and analyze/investigate for myself.
Also, one of the first rules of trading is never trust something that someone links you and always check it out carefully.
If you honestly believe that the situation you described above is more likely to be a legitimate one than not, then I have an absolutely wonderful tropical island beach house that is great for vacations that I would like to sell you.
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I won't click that as it might be a phishing link
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This is NOT a new scam. The whole "hey add my friend because he can't add you" phishing thing has been going on for quite a while now.
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Yeah it started a few months ago for me, it's like a plague of gold spammers, except they don't affect me. I just received 2 of them at once. >.>
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I know this isn't the first time, but I would just like to put some attention on it again.
I was just added by a guy that I won't name due to forum rules?. He he said his friend had a great offer for me regarding my steamtrades.com post. He said his friend couldn't add me because steam was being buggy, which it truly has been today. The link looked very, very much like a true steam link. Never seen such a great fake before, both the link and the supposed steam site. Looked 99,9% correct.
Be careful :)
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