Tf2 scam to look out for: Comp player asking you to sub for their team

[Horse_]

recently there's been a resurgence of scammers using the competitive sub scam. It's not a new scam, but if you don't know what this is, read on...

this is how the scam works:

A scammer will pose as someone who plays for a competitive TF2 team. To gain trust the first thing you'll most likely be asked is something like "what's your TF2 main"?

After this, the scammer will report that they play for a competitive team which is down one player, and they would like you to play. If you agree, they'll send you a link to a completely fake competitive site (which you can fact check using https://www.urlvoid.com/)

This site contains no legitimate links, only java scripts which will display a SIGN IN HERE (using steam of course). this is a phishing site, so don't even think about entering your details. If you do, it will direct you to a page which explains that the site is down for some unknown reason, and by then you're account will be loooooong gone

Link to a reddit re-post on r/TF2 explaining in detail:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/f6j1i7/important_scam_info_tf2_team_in_tournament/

Stay smart out there, and always google search anything that sounds fishy (phishy?)

[ɐǝ⅄]

Originally posted by ( ͡​°​ ͜ʖ ͡°):

old, I already meet 6 of those

They all have several accounts that looks exactly the same: name, pfp, groups, "Welcome to my profile" comment, low steam lvl, cheap inv, and that comp bio copy-pasta but slightly changed.
They all keep calling you "bro" and claim to have 2k hours in tf2 but when you ask them to unprivate their playtime or argue with them, they claim that steam is bugged or keep insisting to log into the same fake tournament phishing site

This. Came across one last night and the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "link steam account" button didn't even work. No redirects or anything.

Originally posted by IamLettuce:

and theyre giving me a link to cyber pro - tf2, dota 2, & cs:go tournaments

The urls vary but they're identical and the domains are always like a day old or something. https://www.urlvoid.com is a good tool for checking but you really don't need it for an obvious scam.

[Average Gamer]

thanks man

[Average Gamer]

Originally posted by IamLettuce:

this time im being asked to "vote for their team" because "my tf2 team will have a match but one our player got hospitalized due to covid. so we need few rating upvotes not to be disqualified. can u vote for us, please?"

sameeeeeee dude, lucky me i didn't sign up to their site and blocked the man

[Marmarmar34]

Image subbing to comp misers

[Malus Cake]

So i got scammed by these people and it was the same so i got a vac ban and steam crew gave me questions like
Have you scammed someone else's account which i said no so after that it gave me a trade link to all of my stuff to see if they are scam items it said it will take a few minutes and told me to make a new password and relog in so that's all as of the writing of this comment its bean 2 hours now and i still don't have my stuff

[Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC]

Originally posted by Malus Cake:

So i got scammed by these people and it was the same so i got a vac ban and steam crew gave me questions like
Have you scammed someone else's account which i said no so after that it gave me a trade link to all of my stuff to see if they are scam items it said it will take a few minutes and told me to make a new password and relog in so that's all as of the writing of this comment its bean 2 hours now and i still don't have my stuff

You just got scammed of all those items by a scammer pretending to be a Steam employee. Sorry to say but those items are gone forever.

[Cat_Soldier]

Hello would you like to join my competitive team

[thepicgamer]

Originally posted by Cat_Soldier:

Hello would you like to join my competitive team

yes please but I need your trade link so I can give you all my items

[Dabl]

old trick i fell for once

honestly, this one of the most convincing scams i've ever seen if you dont know how comp works

[Marteun]

old scam from 2020

[Vror]

Originally posted by Cat_Soldier:

Hello would you like to join my competitive team

It's more like

"heeyyy dude one of my teammates can't join a match and we have to play, can you join us?"

"great! also please vote my team so we can win a prize here (scam link). What does that have to our match? nothing, but please do it be a good person"

[fortnite balls]

Whatch out for user DISPENSER GAMING (with all caps, it's important). He just wanted to scam me with this.

[Redwood the Classic]

Originally posted by The bible:

Whatch out for user DISPENSER GAMING (with all caps, it's important). He just wanted to scam me with this.

Necro dude

[Joe schmoe]

Lmao

[GooberBoobs]

Originally posted by Dabl:

old trick i fell for once

honestly, this one of the most convincing scams i've ever seen if you dont know how comp works

Out here with freezer iq