Quick steam scam PSA

[Soukuw]

You should be aware of how much money your steam inventory is worth as it will directly effect how many people attempt to scam you. If you do not trade or need your inventory to be public you SHOULD make it private.

If someone randomly adds you and they have a collage of photos on their profile they're probably a scammer

If they link to you faceit and start talking about a tournament or some stuff like that the faceit link is probably fake and leads to a fake steam pop up login you can't take out of your browser.

If someone chats you and it's a group message yet only has two people in it (you+them) they're about to try to scam you. Pretty sure they do this so there's no chat log you can go back to screenshot.

Edit: If you would like to use your steam profile to log into a third party site NEVER EVER use their login directly, always go to https://store.steampowered.com/ and log in, then go to their site and click log in with steam, you should now be on steams website and your account should already be logged in all you have to do is click accept. You will be able to see your account name and avatar.

Edit2: Be extremely extremely careful with QR codes and always check the location on your phone. Be aware that as you have already gone to the fake website they will have your IP and location and could possibly trick steam into showing you a location that looks like it's near you.

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[bloody jumper]

thank you, i'll keep an eye out

[ultimamax]

yes i have seen a variation of this scam before targeting counterstrike players. they will copy the profile of one of your friends, but conspicuously they will have very few mutual friends usually, basically it will look like your friend removed you by accident or something unless you dive deep, then they'll ask you to sub in for a counterstrike tournament match and send you a fake faceit login page

[Soukuw]

yes i have seen a variation of this scam before targeting counterstrike players. they will copy the profile of one of your friends, but conspicuously they will have very few mutual friends usually, basically it will look like your friend removed you by accident or something unless you dive deep, then they'll ask you to sub in for a counterstrike tournament match and send you a fake faceit login page

It gets extreme for the record, I had someone randomly asking me to play CS in general and I kept not having time, I finally did have time to play and they ended up wanting me in discord... well I join discord and there's a bunch of people in voice chat all "ready" to play then suddenly they start wanting me to join the faceit team and I'm getting pressured to sign up and go through profiles and suddenly you're clicking a link that leads you to a fake faceit website. So be careful out there, there's entire groups that work together. The scammer that prompted me to post this actually met me in a random competitive match before adding me and it was the same set up as the above discord scam.

[Goth77]

If they link to you faceit and start talking about a tournament or some stuff like that the faceit link is probably fake and leads to a fake steam pop up login you can't take out of your browser.

someone tried doing this to my brother, so we created a spoof gmail account and a fake steam account with his same profile picture and logged into the fake steam portal, within minutes the scammer took the account, but I was still logged in on my end on the web browser, and we were able to see the location of the scammer (moscow russia)

when my brother messaged the guy back from his real account he said "hey hows the weather over there in russia?" the guy blocked him instantly, lol.

[King Tøny]

I'll ban them from my server

[Soukuw]

someone tried doing this to my brother, so we created a spoof gmail account and a fake steam account with his same profile picture and logged into the fake steam portal, within minutes the scammer took the account, but I was still logged in on my end on the web browser, and we were able to see the location of the scammer (moscow russia)

when my brother messaged the guy back from his real account he said "hey hows the weather over there in russia?" the guy blocked him instantly, lol.

Although fun I seriously recommend not playing around with scammers you will eventually get scammed with this mindset and in the best case scenario you still end up on a list of "Will respond and play around with us".

An example of this is OSRS scammers using fake victims to give the true victim a sense of confidence, as soon as you start thinking you know what's going on they get you to make a rash decision or a decision that you don't fully understand the ramifications of that appears safe.

[ChexGuy331]

Edit: If you would like to use your steam profile to log into a third party site NEVER EVER use their login directly, always go to https://store.steampowered.com/ and log in, then go to their site and click log in with steam, you should now be on steams website and your account should already be logged in all you have to do is click accept. You will be able to see your account name and avatar.

I almost got hit by the "vote for my friend's esports team" one...but the reason I almost hit accept on it is because I was already logged in, and it really did look like the same kind of "login through steam" that would be fine on steamgifts or steamdb. Luckily, I decided to take another look to realize all the inconsistencies in the fake esports voting site.

We're a fair bit past freesteamgames.tk like in 2008, but people are still bad at this...

[Ladios]

I get around this by never trusting people I meet in game until ive consistently partied with them for close to a year (granted also I only really party with people in Dota 2, and CS2 I never play competitive).

maybe id be susceptible to someone playing the really long game?