Red Flag in a friend invite

I usually add these people, just because I find blocking them is cathartic.

nope lol

Scammer? Where? Or he's a Rat Kid D:

And not even a "Hi".
Just added me. No idea where he saw me. He isn't in any group, that I can see.

I've got many invites like that recently, mainly from "private profiles" with Nyan Cat avatars. Nothing more than bots spamming you with links including misspelled "community" part "because his friend is interested in things from your inventory" and this kind of shit. Just wait and see.

Or it's a lonely soul looking for a friend! Who knows. :D

I usually accept them. Who knows, maybe one of them will give you a free key, and expect nothing in return? (happened to me) Until you are communicating through Steam, and you don't open any links, he/she can't get any info from you.

Heh I may have gotten a friend request from the same person. Has one untouched game (that you could get for free awhile ago), is level 1, and I dont see any groups. Im curious what they want in my inventory because I dont think I have anything besides garbage lol.

i've received one from the account called "Trade". it chatted me and asked me trade with his friend and used a bogus link which contained an unknown download….Unfriended that bot faster than you can type this sentence...

This is not uncommon. I get around 15 random invites a day, usually from people with level 0 accounts. Just block them because they are more than likely just phishing bots.

Just got another invite.
Another(?) person, also no personal info, level 1, just one game (a different one) that was free for a short time not long ago and never played, no groups.
Both with 6 friends before me.

So far they are:
[unassigned] (profile /76561198153869202)
Androlen (profile /76561198153927567)

The last 3 or 4 months i have been getting 1-2 of these a week. I wish valve made some sort of restriction for making an account, like a required retail cd key for any game to make an account, won't stop them completely but will cut back a ton of them.

i get like 10 of those every day... just ignore/block them...

And of course, i post in this topic and get an invite from one of these assholes.

he/she will eventually link you to a shit url similar to steamcommunity.com but misspelled. Phishing site from russia most probably. Don't login through it, obviously. :P

Confirm private profile and not a Steamgifts/Steamtrades user (Yay Enhanced Steam!) or real life friend

Block

Report

Rinse

Repeat

Yeah i have the same thing steam level 0 private profile, no idea why they are adding me

Just stop accepting friend requests tbh. If it's important enough they can leave you a comment. The phisher/beggar bots are really out of control right now to the point where I get at least 10 a day.

The more you trade/populated on sites,the more you get. Also i found just denying their friend request is same as block expect you can add him later(but not he unless you block him then unblock). Same goes to people i didn't wanted.

i love to add them to insult them (forever alone)

4th level profile.
No information given.
7 years on Steam.
4 games (paid).
And have NEVER played any game...
Damn you, bots!!!!

Red flags:

• [unassigned]

• Level 0 or 1

• Only one game on the account, usually with extremely little playtime. TF2 is usually not in the library.

• Same avatar as another bot you've gotten. Or Steam avatars.

• All friends are relatively high level Steam users.

• Account created very recently (you can check this in various ways, SteamRep is the best)

• Either in no groups, or in one group that you're also in.

It could. Hidden inventory, red steamrep at steamrep.com, trust below 0 at backpack.tf...