STEAM ACCOUNT STEALER WARNING!

These are people who have had their accounts hijacked, and are then basically used to trick others into falling for the same shit.

Don't include the hijack links.
Don't include profile links.

Old news, very old news. There is a new topic made for this at least once a week, if not more.

Also, this form of phishing and scamming has been around for ages.

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2014/11/rogue-scr-file-links-circulating-in-steam-chat/

"I have recently got a friend request from a random person I don't know. I accepted the request though wondering who this is."

Why? This is obviously not something you want to do, heck, I'm surprised you event clicked the link.

well i got it many times..mostly from girls..they send me link.. but i never open any link on steam a/c..and hardly recive friend req..only geniune req i will accept who not hide their profile and other stuff...so be carefull with scammer..they moslty attack more then 10lvl

Do not accept random invites. Do not accept invites from profiles with level 0-10. Do not click random links without looking at the url first.

Don't. Don't. Don't.

HJ um cara que nem conheço me mandou um link com IMG pedindo uma dica sobre tf3 que era para seguir o link como nem conhecia o caboclo nem entrei no link

People! You are guilty, you voluntary send to others site the "Steam" identifier, you enter groups. After these actions you also receive deplorable result.

You must be new at Steam

Oh ))) Thanks for remind anyway. 1 day at Steam? )

The fan of free games it is obligatory to get acquainted with a boat :))

my question is how they can steal your steam account if you have doube authentication facton activated on steam and email too :o ?

BTW when you click that link on the chat it doesn't appear the steam warnig that the site may be malicious?? Which wouldn't appear if pointing to any part of their site.

182 scammers blocked so far, I get 1-5 each day. Sometimes they seem like the same accounts, same name and profile pic. That's lazy.

not a single scammer in 10 years, private profile rocks ;)

Getting about 2 bots per day, usual thing by now.

The noobs hacjers cant enter in your account steam.

They need your email to obtain a key 5 digits verifcation.

The only metod to steal your account is steal your email.

Does this site expect you to log in or does it just download malware?

This isn't a new scam, scammers have been using this basic scam for years now, the only thing that changes is the site they try to send you to. They're running out of names that look like steamcommunity. lol

Easiest way to not get scammed is to NOT click any links that people send you.

You know... You could always just not accept requests from strangers. Hell, I have it flatly stated in my steam profile that I do not accept random friend requests.

"Chances are that I will not accept a random add unless I either recognize the name, or if you are related to dealings on SteamGifts.com. "

I go on to mention that unless someone attempting to add me is from a writing community I frequent, that someone probably does not need to get into contact with me, citing that whether someone needs to contact me from SteamGifts is pretty straightforward.

That is why when, just earlier this week, I was contacted by an [unassigned] bot account, I did not accept. Even without the research I wasn't going to accept their request. In the end, my research only served to have me report them.

Got a random add from a stranger today, private profile and level 0, so the request was rejected.

Lesson of the day: Dont' accept suspicious/random adds, avoids all possible consequences.

Meh, I get an occasional one, I'll accept for lulz, they send their crap, I don't even respond, copypasta into a Steam Report window and block all further communications. Probably does jack-all but it gives me a "Boy Scout deed of the day" feeling.

For My Profile, I say COMMENT on my profile why you want to add me before I accept request from random people.
90% of the people ignore this. This also help me filter out scammers, spammers, beggers, etc.

I also post this in my profile for people wanting to add me:

Time limit to Comment after Friending before Ignoring

• People who haven't even set up community profile: Really? Instant Ignore, possible block.
• Private Profiles: You have 5 minutes to comment before being ignored.
• For Profiles Under Level 10: You have 30 minutes to comment before being ignored.
• Profiles Level 11 and up: You have 60 minutes to comment before being ignored.

If you resend request and again ignore commenting to my profile why you want to friend, i will most likely ignore and block.

And even that much time is probably too much, I might lower it. If people can't follow a simple rule to comment, then i guess it isn't important.
I've also started writing down names / profiles in a .txt file of all the people I ignore and can keep track of them.