Same here, IDK what they want but i NEVER accept this invites.
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Your money. :3 Now, how they plan to obtain it I have no idea XD
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Stealing a respectable account > Scam people with your account, because they would trust it more than a 0/1 lvl steam account with 1 game. Also steal any items in your inventory.
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But how would they steal my account if they do nothing after adding me?
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Well they usually start messaging you at some point or at least they did. I started just banning 0-1 lvl private accounts that add me with no reason, so i don't know how they do it these days. (probably still with broken english XD )
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That's nothing unusual. Every time a level 0-2 adds me, I just ignore/block them. There's nothing good coming from accepting their invites, they're either scammers or bots.
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They send you scam links - they just wait few days :)
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paranoid possibilities:
- add you but the phishing bot is not working properly
- mom called for dinner so they really have to go and cant try to scam you atm
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- added you to beg but it's not working with most people so moved to their main account
- internet failed
- internet data cap limited reached
- don't understand english
- computer exploded
- power outage
- he just wants a friend :(
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Maybe they've found an exploit where you don't have to actively engange with a user, just being in their friendslist is enough?
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Hopefully steam gives us a solution soon.
I mean I can think of 2 easy ones right of the bat:
-make lvl 0-1 accounts unable to friend people.
-autoblock lvl 0-1 invites option for everyone
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I agree, the amount of trouble with level 0 bots that people are reporting on the forums is getting ridiculous. I hope that Valve does something about it, otherise soon we won't be able to tell which of the friend invites we get are from actual people so we'll probably reject the legitimate ones as well :/
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Happens most often when you have a highpriced item for sale on the market.
I got about 70 friends requests when I tried to sell my awp asiimov
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Me too a bot called Magik send a friend request to me and my friend my friend aceept but I block him =)
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Oh I got one of those.
After one or two days he behaved like any other, sending a link claiming it was a trade or something.
Just block/report.
They probably just think you might forget who they are after some time and hope you won't recheck or something.
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Too bad that later they simply use a different account... and they have hundreds (thousands?) of these...
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At least they added you to their friendslist so... you have a friend!
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same here, except some send me phising links, while others do nothing.
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I have only accepted one of them, after a week it wrote that it wanted to trade some cards and: "Here, enjoy this gift <insert malware website here>".
Douchebag bot
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They are from North Korea secret service and they want your soul !!
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Yeah I usually make those bots to link phishing links to people but I'm not sure what makes them go offline, thanks for the bug report!
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I... I... no they work great! I am writing here because I'm really angry because I got easly scammed by one of them! They are so good at scamming people that there is no need to change anything!
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The code for creating scam bots was available online somewhere at some point of time iirc; The bots you see are probably a result of people who've never seen code before in their lives trying to operate those. If I had to guess,I'd assume when initializing the software you need to provide some arguments(like what sentence you want your bots to send to people) while the person who did the initialization didn't do it correctly/at all.
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That would explain it... basically bots that are broken and only do the first part of their job (finding people and then adding them) correctly due to the lack of knowledge of the person that set them up.
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Over the last few months I've been getting added on Steam by what I understand are bots. They have level 0 private account and a random avatar. The strange thing is: unlike other bots it seems that they don't try to scam me. I open up chat with them and ask them what they want. They don't respond. Usually a short time after I add them (about 1 minute) they go offline (after 2 days they still don't go online so I just remove them). They started adding me when I started to write on Steam game's discussion pages (I wasn't an active forums user before but I thought "why not help this person that has a simple question about a game/ needs hep that I can provide"). Now I'm kind of getting suspicious because I have totally no idea what they want. I'm just curious why someone would create bots that JUST ADD YOU and don't try to scam you/ steal something from your account. Has any of you also encountered these bots or am I the only one? I've searched on Google about it but I could only find threads about bots that actually DO something.
TL;DR: Random bots add me then go offline and never return. Any idea what they want?
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