Am I the only one ....

Yes you are

Conspiracies. They're everywhere

Block Communication*
best option ;)

I've seen similar topics in the past, so you aren't alone. Some people do it because they think adding random people makes their account look more legitimate. I had someone add me a couple of days ago 'just because I want more Steam friends'. Didn't keep that guy obviously.

It happens. You just have to live it with it, ya know? :P

I've never been invited to a random Russian groups ever. Or any random groups at all 0o.

I can live with it though.

Nope the same as me every day 2 or more invites.

Once I went for a trip to Ukraine and guess what I came home and saw 20+ invites to all this stupid Russian groups.

I don't get them too frequently nowadays.

Maybe three or four in one month at the most.

They are using scripts to mass invite everyone to their groups. Don't know why they would want to, or why pretty much all of those doing so are Russian. I take the time to report both the group and the user that invited me to it, though I don't know if anything has ever come of it.

No, you're not the only one =/

I'm grateful I don't get them much anymore.

I do. Also have random friendrequests.

The last conversation, happend few minutes ago:

Me: Yes, how can I help you?
Random guy: steamgifts
Me: What about steamgifts?
Random guy: you gift magicka
Me: Nope, I didn't create any magicka giveaway.
Random guy: a ok blz entao
Me: Sorry I don't understand.
Random guy is now Offline.

Also, no his name wasn't random guy.

I actually haven't received any in the past few days, but the past 2 weeks I've been receiving 3+ a day.

Before clicking ignore, go to the group profile page, click "Report" and write "Unsolicited mass invites" as the reason. Then click ignore and hope others do the same, so we'll eventually get rid of these groups.

I have gotten random invites before, but only once in a while. Never enough to be a problem.

Steam should add a feature so only friends can invite you to groups. Or no one at all

Nope, I also receive a lot of russians invites...

They see your nick and think 'I will scam this guy and he'll smile back'. Deal.

I get them. I block/report the spammer, and generally post offensive text to the group discussions page. Probably doesn't help but makes me feel better.

report and ignore user, report group and link to this

Often enough. I have also gotten an influx of beggars thanks to this site.

I'm in some random russian CS 1.6 groups, so yeah.

I feel you bro, I get them all the time.

It happens because you are in a public group. I never used to get random invites until I joined Steam's "Summer Camp" group. The thousands of people who are also in that group can now find you easily and write a script to invite everyone into their own group.

-Khalaq