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Beware of hijacking using email spoofing

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ravenTalon

The situation

One day you receive an email. It seems legit because the sender is noreply[at]support.steampowered.com, not those steamCORNmunity ones that you frequently see.

The problem

But it is NOT. Steam never asks you to download anything. Follow those instructions and you will lose your account for sure.

What happened?

The hijacker used a technique called "Email Spoofing", which create an email messages with a forged sender address. For further reading about email spoofing and how to protect yourself, read this article from LifeHacker, it's too long to be pasted here.
Original post from Reddit

9 years ago

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zelghadis

sorry, but it's nothing new. Email spoofing has been used by phishers for years.

9 years ago
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Fragless

Yes, but new people constantly come to the Internet so it's worthwhile posting warnings like this, especially if a scamming campaign is currently underway.

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Aseed

That's pretty clever I've got to admit. I'm sure there are people who failed for it
Thank you for the warning :)

9 years ago
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