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Fofuxo

so today someone tried to scam me, i got a private message saying that he(the scammer) wanted to trade me, but his "trade account" could not send invites. so he gave me the link to the suppose trade account:
staemcomnunity.com/id/***
(notice the url is not from steam but staem, which by the way, i think makes it not against forum rules, but if it is please tell me and i will edit it out)

1st thing i noticed is that the site changed to Russian, still looks exactly like the steam profile page, but in Russian, and then i noticed i was "logged off", which i was sure i was not... that was the moment i remembered to check the link and noticed the staem and comnunity, i believe i am not the 1st one noticing this, but i have seen no info about this scam in the forums, and i think its important to let the community know about this kind of stuff to prevent future scams

the funny(and dangerous) thing is i have traded with this guy in the past and everything went smooth, gave him the +rep and all.. now, some months later this happens..

10 years ago*

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madjoki

very old scam.

10 years ago
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Fofuxo

never heard of it... better safe than sorry ;)

10 years ago
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RobotDeathParty

He either got his account stolen or he was fishing to take you out, which is unlikely because unless he had a grudge against you, why would he wait any amount of time to setup a scam towards you?

Anyways, it's not hard to see through these scams starting right at when they tell you to go to a link in the first place.

10 years ago
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Salto

Its old also dont post that scam link here becouse someone might try to use it ....

10 years ago
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Fofuxo

someone would use it to do what? lol
if anyone uses it, will be helping the real scammers and not himself

10 years ago
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Salto

And your helping scamer by posting this link ...

10 years ago
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Fofuxo

oh rly? even explaining all the steps he did to try? -.-
anyone copying, then pasting it in the browser and going to the url and logging in would be somewhat dumb...
anyway, i edited it out ;)

10 years ago
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Futome

People have actually done it for starters, plus there's users from other countries who cannot understand our language very well. A lot of them just know there's a lot of links to puzzles and free games n'shit in the comments, so they'll click on the link. And boom, they just got phished on-accident.

10 years ago
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Salto

thank you very much

10 years ago
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ChibiRobo

If someone is dumb enough to use the link there's probably nothing we can do to help him. He must be getting scammed about 3 to 4 times on an average day

10 years ago
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LIGrenadier

I'd remove most of that link, just in case. No need to post the whole thing with the id number intact. Someone is likely to try it just for kicks.

10 years ago
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Rafan

Mabye he got hacked with that link and later he will get back his account. and yes its very old that scam.Do not trust any kind of link they send you, 2 of my friend got hacked their account for a few hours and then everything came back to normal.

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Fofuxo

i never do, thats why i didnt got scammed.. ^^
but i admit i overlooked the staem the 1st time i looked at it

10 years ago
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dontboremewiththanks

i think its called pishing and happens often at creditcardsites and banksites....
ty for info though
anyone can overlook this and just log in there
good reminder to always look at the URL exactly

10 years ago
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LapioPimo

There's multiple phishing sites that misspell steam community

10 years ago
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Zerathos

This may be the oldest scam in the book. This trick has been around longer than Steam has.

10 years ago
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EndDead

It's called phishing. Not new though. Good thing you avoided it.

10 years ago
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olfox1

staem pls

10 years ago
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ColbyTheDog

powirl pls.

10 years ago
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olfox1

Dolan pls

10 years ago
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ColbyTheDog

Actualy is colby. (or maby not???)

10 years ago
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starstalker

very common to see these in dota-trade site. scammer spam a msg their friend want to trade but cant add you, so add them "link"

10 years ago
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Thirteen13

I'm not a big fan of logging into Steam through my browser. I just don't trust it all that much, I think the client is much safer.

Good thing for you that you noticed, OP, I'm sure some people might fall for such scam rather easily.

10 years ago
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Tsarius

I would, but I trade too much to do that. Trade offers through the steam client are way too wonky. Using the browser is much more effective.

10 years ago
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dorimi

i tried logging with fake credentials and then it offers you to download SteamGuard :D

10 years ago
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mconno

i just tell them "okay I logged in, now what?" then they don't chat back :( y no friendly to me.

10 years ago
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sviat

Remove the link, because http://www.steamgifts.com/forum/DjxxL/psa-phishing-links, just in case.

Old scam, these bots add you after you bump your thread on ST or Outpost, they steal accounts and use them as a phishing bot after.

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SERPEN7

This has been around for quite some time now ;)

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Closed 10 years ago by Fofuxo.