+1 challenger scam

[OneAutumnPlayer]

beware of this kind of people they will keep spamming you about needing your vote or need you to play in their so called tourny its not real and are most likely just there to steal your acc. i monitored one out of curiosity and been 5 months they keep making me go to their website and their tournaments are never ending every chance they get they say they need you to vote or what not sometimes its a bot and sometimes its real its a bot if they don't reply other than asking you to vote or join. in my case its a real person and i just decided to say i already did it and they stop and they come back to say they dont see my acc in their data base xD so meaning they have list of people who enters and are the creator of the website

[Pykulek]

Bump, thought I was the only one experiencing this
Had one of them in my friends' list for a good while up until today, messaging me those types of request every now and then, usually once per week or even less frequently sometimes, the persistence very much seemed completely random
Got added by 2 new ones back to back literally 3 hours ago, which sort of freaked me out, but also finally made me block&delete the previously mentioned one since it became pretty clear to me, that it wasn't just a weird one-off scam experiment but an actual plague in the making

[summersky09]

Don't accept if they are level 20 below.
unless you have been play with them in game or you know them in real person ^_^

[OneAutumnPlayer]

Originally posted by Pykulek:

Bump, thought I was the only one experiencing this
Had one of them in my friends' list for a good while up until today, messaging me those types of request every now and then, usually once per week or even less frequently sometimes, the persistence very much seemed completely random
Got added by 2 new ones back to back literally 3 hours ago, which sort of freaked me out, but also finally made me block&delete the previously mentioned one since it became pretty clear to me, that it wasn't just a weird one-off scam experiment but an actual plague in the making

yeah thats how they do it they seem to just talk to you at random i found 2 again im my list with the same same and avatar i just blocked them

[OneAutumnPlayer]

Originally posted by summersky09:

Don't accept if they are level 20 below.
unless you have been play with them in game or you know them in real person ^_^

funilly enough i have played with 1 of the guy i even changed my initials to Yeeters.OneAutumnPlayer at one point cause they were good but then they sent me a link and since i trust them since they where really good and even streamed in twitch i accepted then i suddenly got a message that the code that was supposed to be my invite code was a code for changing my steam credentials and he want it so bad that started hurrying me up without answering my questions

[MVP_lCE™]

Originally posted by OneAutumnPlayer:

beware of this kind of people they will keep spamming you about needing your vote or need you to play in their so called tourny its not real and are most likely just there to steal your acc. i monitored one out of curiosity and been 5 months they keep making me go to their website and their tournaments are never ending every chance they get they say they need you to vote or what not sometimes its a bot and sometimes its real its a bot if they don't reply other than asking you to vote or join. in my case its a real person and i just decided to say i already did it and they stop and they come back to say they dont see my acc in their data base xD so meaning they have list of people who enters and are the creator of the website

How this actually happened? I don't really understand btw. Any better explain? Sorry for bad English.

[OneAutumnPlayer]

Originally posted by coUp_dE_gRâce 2011:

Originally posted by OneAutumnPlayer:

beware of this kind of people they will keep spamming you about needing your vote or need you to play in their so called tourny its not real and are most likely just there to steal your acc. i monitored one out of curiosity and been 5 months they keep making me go to their website and their tournaments are never ending every chance they get they say they need you to vote or what not sometimes its a bot and sometimes its real its a bot if they don't reply other than asking you to vote or join. in my case its a real person and i just decided to say i already did it and they stop and they come back to say they dont see my acc in their data base xD so meaning they have list of people who enters and are the creator of the website

How this actually happened? I don't really understand btw. Any better explain? Sorry for bad English.

basically they add you and wont be chatting you right away sometimes they will play with you or just stay in your friend list if they gain enough trust or where friend for a decent amount of time they will chat you and ask if you could join their tournament called challenger

if you join they will send a link that will phish out all of your accounts details if you are not quick enough to notice something was off

if you decline they will still send you link but you will need to sign in for them to change your account details and get all your items. typically they will say they need votes or need 1 more team in their team or what ever just dont click on the link and check your API if its blank its good and if its not blank check if that is your PC or not

[MVP_lCE™]

Originally posted by OneAutumnPlayer:

Originally posted by coUp_dE_gRâce 2011:

How this actually happened? I don't really understand btw. Any better explain? Sorry for bad English.

basically they add you and wont be chatting you right away sometimes they will play with you or just stay in your friend list if they gain enough trust or where friend for a decent amount of time they will chat you and ask if you could join their tournament called challenger

if you join they will send a link that will phish out all of your accounts details if you are not quick enough to notice something was off

if you decline they will still send you link but you will need to sign in for them to change your account details and get all your items. typically they will say they need votes or need 1 more team in their team or what ever just dont click on the link and check your API if its blank its good and if its not blank check if that is your PC or not

Correct for what you said about the link. Best I think is don't ever click any malicious link and always hiding the "friend-list" as private also. I understand a lot of scammers like to strike or aim to get our friend-list details to lure or persuade us in chatting. That's the reason why our 'PRIVACY' with friends can be set with private :)

TQ for info.

[MVP_lCE™]

I suggest you set your "FRIEND LIST" to private. Because all these happened as they prefer to aim users who never hide their friends.

[OneAutumnPlayer]

Originally posted by coUp_dE_gRâce 2011:

I suggest you set your "FRIEND LIST" to private. Because all these happened as they prefer to aim users who never hide their friends.

the problem is i need to trade and gift i also use sites like etopfun to trade in items securely so making it private will not allow it

i make money playing the game by trading up or gifting cache making it private will not allow me to do that. but its true i should limit who i accept as a friend

[Grimmz]

Originally posted by OneAutumnPlayer:

Originally posted by coUp_dE_gRâce 2011:

I suggest you set your "FRIEND LIST" to private. Because all these happened as they prefer to aim users who never hide their friends.

the problem is i need to trade and gift i also use sites like etopfun to trade in items securely so making it private will not allow it

i make money playing the game by trading up or gifting cache making it private will not allow me to do that. but its true i should limit who i accept as a friend

there is no 3rd party site thats secure.

if its not Valve's site, you risk your account.

[MVP_lCE™]

Originally posted by OneAutumnPlayer:

Originally posted by coUp_dE_gRâce 2011:

I suggest you set your "FRIEND LIST" to private. Because all these happened as they prefer to aim users who never hide their friends.

the problem is i need to trade and gift i also use sites like etopfun to trade in items securely so making it private will not allow it

i make money playing the game by trading up or gifting cache making it private will not allow me to do that. but its true i should limit who i accept as a friend

Why you don't sell away the "cache" items to people you can know in real life? There must be a reason why the "generating" of profits can be so easy through the "cache" items. Or I suggest you sell to real-life people who you can know or contacted to know where he/she is. If the contacted user/player/person/etc is anonymous, then better don't entertain such party. Sounds really dangerous to me. :) Your sharing is good :)

[Grimmz]

Originally posted by coUp_dE_gRâce 2011:

Originally posted by OneAutumnPlayer:

the problem is i need to trade and gift i also use sites like etopfun to trade in items securely so making it private will not allow it

i make money playing the game by trading up or gifting cache making it private will not allow me to do that. but its true i should limit who i accept as a friend

Why you don't sell away the "cache" items to people you can know in real life? There must be a reason why the "generating" of profits can be so easy through the "cache" items. Or I suggest you sell to real-life people who you can know or contacted to know where he/she is. If the contacted user/player/person/etc is anonymous, then better don't entertain such party. Sounds really dangerous to me. :) Your sharing is good :)

well i've been selling them on trading subforum. even as of now i have 5 people who already paid me. just waiting for 30 days to pass so i can send.

you don't need extra sites for this. thats just extra risky

[Nän00xMäx]

To educate people so that they prevent themselves from getting scammed is one thing.
Another thing is to make sure that using Steam as a way to scam people is, if not impossible, very hard.

[MVP_lCE™]

Originally posted by Grimmz:

Originally posted by coUp_dE_gRâce 2011:

Why you don't sell away the "cache" items to people you can know in real life? There must be a reason why the "generating" of profits can be so easy through the "cache" items. Or I suggest you sell to real-life people who you can know or contacted to know where he/she is. If the contacted user/player/person/etc is anonymous, then better don't entertain such party. Sounds really dangerous to me. :) Your sharing is good :)

well i've been selling them on trading subforum. even as of now i have 5 people who already paid me. just waiting for 30 days to pass so i can send.

you don't need extra sites for this. thats just extra risky

I don't think of joining the extra risky sites. What I meant by joining is, knowing & selling the items to other buyers that we can reach in real-life through the social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you do not know who is that person, then must ignore also. I bought a lot of my cache items through Facebook and never face scams before from there.

The worst history I faced before was once when I got scammed for the first time in the year 2014 (when I was still a noob and never read the Steam Knowledge Base). Since then, I started to visit the Steam Knowledge Base site many times and prefer to read many things from there, learned a lot as well. The first scam to me really opened my eyes very big with the lost of 2 arcanas & 1 void hammer. That's why I am superb anti-abuse against any rules on Steam including the scam, smurf, etc. Really hope those "illegal runners" down with bad luck forever. :)

[OneAutumnPlayer]

Originally posted by Grimmz:

Originally posted by OneAutumnPlayer:

the problem is i need to trade and gift i also use sites like etopfun to trade in items securely so making it private will not allow it

i make money playing the game by trading up or gifting cache making it private will not allow me to do that. but its true i should limit who i accept as a friend

there is no 3rd party site thats secure.

if its not Valve's site, you risk your account.

lol there is as long as you have steam guard mobile on and know how to read terms and some are actually affliated with valve