Have you seen something like this already?
My scammer stopped on step #3. I just told him that I have a unique picture for avatar that was made specially for me, and he stopped scamming me :<
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Mine stopped when after some baiting I got finally tired and said "now seriously, how many people fall for this crap?"
I was really tempted to go to Discord and discover more, but I don't want any undesirable people have my Discord contact.
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should have an Alt Discord specific for these situations to gather more data to report em
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Rex9999 your profile pict is cute! whats it from? characters of? etc lol after remembering what this discussion is about i swear i'm not trying to scam you. just wanna know about the artwork
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Anime Movie - Kimi no na wa
Characters - The main Guy and Girl in the movie. Will not spoil anything if you havent seen it, highly recommend it.
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Do you understand that even if you have your avatar made specially for you - anyone can take this picture from your profile and use? Not that it makes this scam less obvious though...
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Yep, you're right. But I googled and I was the only user of that picture at the moment
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And if someone tries to impersonate me then I would want to see such retard and ask him why tf he does that
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That's why I've got both my Steam level and profile address right on the avatar. It's more difficult to impersonate me, even if you know where this picture comes from. Scammers wouldn't bother.
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Not really a new scam. I get them for months now. The accounts they use for their phishing attempts are now less obvious though. (probably hacked as well)
Standard message from 4 different people was always the same: "I'm sorry to disturb you, Add me asap! I have something to tell you its really important i hope you will notice this comment... (I am not a bot and not for trade)"
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Yes something like that. I've seen other examples in a short research I made before posting this - and I thought it was new. But judging by the amount of people who have said "yes" it's clear it's not new as you confirm.
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Had exactly the same comment xD Wouldn't call it less obvious if they are using ctrl+c - ctrl+v comments like this one.
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Same, I get them for months now, they are always saying that they coudn't contact me otherwise but it's really important and connected to my steam profile, I didn't fell for it because everybody can write on my profile so I'm super annoyed that they use my artwork or screenshots.
I just delete them. And yes their profile are less obvious now, before it was mostly private profile, or with less than 5 games on the account.
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It's always fun when a scammer says "dude" and that he played with me on cs:go, I am a woman who never played that game (and if I played it I would be desperately awful nobody would want me to join a steam group or pay me for it haha)
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Dude works since a lot of people use it even for women and can be seen as both "oh yeah I'm a man it's me" and "I'm a woman but this is one of the guys who always says dude to everyone so I guess it's fine", since it can be seen as a neutral term it makes the scam even easier to copypaste to every profile without checking for anything. But yeah if you don't play cs:go it's even too easy to get it, but sadly most people would have played it at least once in their life and can be a potential victim of the scam.
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All scams Iv seen are essentially the same, they need you to do something for Steam.
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Yeah, these have been going on for several months now at least, but it's still good to make others aware. I know at least a couple of people who've made the mistake of wrongly trusting them.
There are some that may try contacting you through Discord too, via mutual gaming servers. I received a message just yesterday on Discord for this scam before promptl blocking, reporting to the server admins, and reporting to Discord.
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but it's still good to make others aware.
That's the idea. First, if even only one who would have fallen for the scam, will not due to someone alerting, it's worth posting. And second, maybe posting make people report this stuff more often, so they're banned quickly and without trace.
If, and I guess it's very probable, the account was a hacked one, I trust that the difference in IPs will make the legit owner recover their account without too much trouble.
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I heard it for the first time because I didn't carelessly enter the new Discord channel.(´･Θ･`)Oh...
Is there an era in which we will have to ban all recruitment of participants to external sites other than Steam?
In any case, no one speaks in my star language, so it's usually out of scope.
At present, is it enough to attach the Discord invitation URL to Virustotal and check in advance if there are any problems? (There is no particularly good way)
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url
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Discord invitations through VT wont work, since it'll just look at "oh it's discord, it's fine"/wont be able to see because it's private. VT is good for websites you get sent (though if it's newer it might not work as well).
Discord invite.gg links and friend requests though aint the bad thing, the bad things are 3rd party sites and if they ask for money transfers,
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Of course I reported. I don't care if there's a slim chance Steam will do anything or not. I do my part, and I report the idjits with a smile.
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How is this scam new? That's the same shit they are trying to do since forever.
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I have the messages at one of my screenshots nearly daily.
I copy the message, jump to the scammers profile, hit the report button copy the message in and write steam thats the begin of the obvious scam. After that i block the steam account and delete the comment at the screenshot. Job done.
If i am in a impish mood and have enough time, i send the guy the friend request and speak very overhyped when he inform me about the report or play the bad guy.
As example, "oh my god, how can such things happen", "maybe i should delete my account instantly to avoid trouble", "you are my rescue buddy" and pretend to do all that he say but are too dumb and need, MUCH more help (i don't know discord, don't have it installed, don't know how to install stuff, others done that before for me and so on -yes i am very impish and evil :-D-).
And the bad guy version is as example normal till he tell me he have reported me to a admin/mod of steam when i start with "No problem buddy, i know one of the personal, give me a moment i phone call him", "he said he want to know the name of your mod and his id link", "he question what's his and your real name that he can fill it in the ticket".
Both version make them really crazy sometimes and in a few cases they pee their pants :-D
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Wie gut das ich Screenshots machte... von den Sachen die du ja nie gemacht hast.
Und natürlich werfen dich Leute, ganz ohne Beweise, aus ihren Gruppen. Einfach nur weil ich Schnippe nehme ich an ?
Geh zum Arzt, es ist, offensichtlich, nötig.
Ist echt schlimm mit den Trollen die dann nicht mehr blicken was sie so labern den lieben langen Tag.
OVER AND OUT
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Sounds like something I would do, I like to have fun yanking their chain. I do that with the "microsoft tech support" phonecalls too, I string them along saying stuff like "wait, how do I download?" or "but I don't even have a computer, it's just this white box that says 'apple' on it" If I really feel like messing with them I'll ask stupid shit like "hey, can you teach me how to mine for fish?" or "can you help me download the internet?"
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Always same pattern-just different, yet similar method
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got a scam by discord, a ppl come to talk to me, and say he's reported me on steam (for cheating i believe) but he reported the wrong person (me). and he said i need to talk to the steam's admin and gave me his discord's profile.... lol
i've reported that on steam, but they don't care
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I've had to ban multiple of these scammers from discord servers I mod in already. Luckily not seen anyone get caught by it yet though (Did recently have a friend that got caught by the "vote for my CSGO team" scam though).
Oh and generally I've seen this scam be with asking for money btw, it's not just getting steam/discord accounts
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contact one of the Steam moderators through Discord
OK
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Yeah I realized that moment he was a scammer. It's helpful that you open this topic. I'm sure most of us aware of this but still there might be people who are more naif.
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At first I didn't know what they are going to ask. I've waited for their reply and then reported/blocked if that's what you're asking.
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3 people already tried it on me. i reported each of them
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i got something like this. seemed fishy so i never replied or anything
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report them. always! maybe with time Valve/steam will make something about that.
edit: forget to say, I see this kind of mesages twice a week, so I think that people are been scamed with this "method", and for the time it works, they will keep doing it
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I only got one scam tentative via steam chat (redirecting my to steaNcomunity) more than 5 years ago. on discord never, but I heard many people got the "sorry, I reported you by mistake, blablabla"
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I'm still laughing about my "incident" with some kind of guy/gal like this a week ago I think, I kinda ruined his/her attempt when they said I made some transaction, and I told thme "nope, I don't use market", it took them to type their line (few words) more than 10 minutes, and then abbandoned and blocked me :D .
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They sold something on the market for a big amount of money (mine was $600+). - OK
They didn't receive the money after the transaction (which is ludicrous). - OK
They found you because they can't see the name of who bought it but they could see the avatar, and your avatar looks the same. - still OK )
They reported you wrongly and only now they realize their mistake (and how do they know now it wasn't me?) - NP
They received an email from Steam telling both parties to immediately contact one of the Steam moderators through Discord and use Steam rep to prove that such person is indeed a moderator (laughable).
And this one is intresting
- if it's a real deiscord with fake moderators - i with pleasure will talk with them all. really intresting how they prooved that i should pay anybody or will disclose my data
- if the link was fake - i guess i will redirect to fake discord with "standart" Steam autorization. is anybody still do it?
but the real question is, can criminals steal all the data they need if I just click on a fake link like https://dizcord.com/?
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They didn't receive the money after the transaction (which is ludicrous). - OK
That already is almost impossible & and even, if it should happen they had to take it up solely with STEAM support. That´s what they take their commison for, right ..!?
They found you because they can't see the name of who bought it but they could see the avatar, and your avatar looks the same. - still OK )
Actually absolutely totally NOT - when you buy/sell anything on the market it´s exactly one click to "market history" where every transaction you ever made is listed including who you sold to/bought from for how much with their name and avatar. One more click on the avatar and you are on that persons profile ..
Personally I have no idea how to find a profile on STEAM just with an avatar-pic, if that´s even remotely possible.
About your question 2. - I don´t thiink so but I´d still report such an attempt before clicking anything those dumbass scammers want me to ..
😉
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anothabrotha - by OK I only meant that I am ready to believe in this nonsense solely to continue the dialogue with the scammer)
this statement will not allow steal my account details
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OK Smectic, my bad. I misunderstood it for the parts of the scam you considered as still somewhat realistic.
Never thought you would actually fall for smtg stupid like that!
I think we agree the whole thing is as dumb as it gets.
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my message on my profile seems to deter scammers. also this type of scam is old.
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Hello people.
I'm just going to alert you about a new scam going on Steam, just in case.
First, someone will try to contact you through a comment somewhere like in artwork, video, an old post, but probably not on your profile. Once contacted, they will try to convice you of the following:
Apparently it's a network of people trying to fool people into giving their gaming credentials through a fake OpenID server (given in Discord chat). But I didn't get that far. Chat a bit with them and once they show their crap, make a few captures of the comment they used to contact you, the whole chat, and report them for fraudulent behaviour.
I know none of you would fall for this, but let's collaborate and make Steam ban these people. More will come with other scams, but at least these will be banned.
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