Has anyone encounter Private Steam Messages from Malicious Hacked Accounts?

Yes it's been happening for the past days, there's an exploit, and people can message you without being in same groups / friendlist / friends of friends friendlist.

its weird. never used to get these - steam probably never even had this functionality, but every time valve pushes an update it seems to make things worse. Pretty bone-headed move on valves part to make this a function of the platform... not that they seem to give a shit any more.

i got about 50 messages invite who look like this in the past week most of them 3 last day
the thing i noticed after blocking communication of all users one did send me message again i don't know how it happened

I got one from someone with a profile pic with boobies in them. It was very hard to ignore, but in the end I managed to do it!

Did get one of those messages looked message and blocked all communications from them.

Hmm, didn't know this recently became a feature. Luckily, messaged from those malicious bots are usually really easy to recognize!

I hope they implement an option to disallow non-friends from sending messages over group chat( discord has that function) although I'm not really in any group chat lol. Luckily I've yet to receive any spam :)

I am, I just blocked them after reading what is inside

Happened to me yesterday. I blocked this person.

I've had every malicious thing possible on Steam. Everything. At some point, you just have to laugh at the idiots.

I want to know one thing: All the users who're reporting getting suspicious messages from users, not in your friend list, are you all logged into any kind of Steam Group (most probably Public groups) Chat?

If you're then anybody can contact you through there, obtaining your chat head through the list of members logged into chat, whether they're online/offline that really doesn't matter.

For members of Closed Steam Groups, you should contact the group admins (with proof) immediately about weeding out the scammers.

Yup, I got this too. Accepted communication out of curiosity but instantly blocked him.

Still waiting for the 2 AWP's i have won without entering any sort of contest. xD

I also got 2 messages with this warning these last few days, I wonder how many more do we need to receive before valve does something about it...
The fact that there's a warning makes me think they already knew this could happen, or maybe the warning is meant only for messages from group members that aren't in our friend list and they didn't see this coming at all.

Yeah, I got this as well. OFC the account had a picture of a pretty girl and the name was 'Kiley :3' but the name history also showed 'Alice :3'.

In my case, 'she' asked me for some kind of urgent help...

I mean, it's pretty obvious to me that these are fake accounts.
First of, the picture of a pretty girl combined with an overly girly name and these silly 'cute' emoticons or whatever and all of it on a private profile. The last one alone is enough for me to ignore a request or, if I judge it suspicious I just block it straight off.

This is so annoying. I've got over 20 messages in the last hour.

I agree it's pretty annoying as it does popup a sounded notification, and you know it's spam. Hope they fix this soon

Finally got myself one too, big-boobed Jessica wanted me to like her youtu.be video, which got me curious if that can be some kind of scam other than cashing in from Google with all the views.

Valve seems to be taking their typically stance on these things,

• Create something with the best of intentions
• It has an unintentional consequence (flashing notification that you can't turn off without turning off all notifications from friends)
• Bots exploit to critical mass levels
• Valve gets flooded with user reports
• 5 Years later a fix (~Anyone remember when group notifications couldn't be blocked)

I've disabled notification alerts for now to mitigate, but as long as you're in a bunch of public groups you're going to get a bunch everyday.
The fix for valve is easy, give an option to block messages from ppl not on our friends list. (Or at least put a level threshold on random message requests)

Yeah, a lot of "go check this video" or "click on this link for 15$ wallet" and such...
Block all the way.

The new chat/friends stuff is shit anyway....

got a few myself yesterday. Did not accept any of the messages so I don't know what they say but safe to assume they are spam or malicious.

The real crime is that internet explorer shortcut in your taskbar, though.

Jokes aside, got one too and it concerned me. Blocked it without reading but was worried it might have been something legit.
Surely steam will fix it like they did with the previous spambot rise a few years ago.