Random invites to tournaments

[Klättermusen]

I have been added by four random seemingly serious folks on steam, only to either be invited to participate in a tournament (i'm not that good) or to rate their team in said tournament.

The four tournaments where hosted on different websites, but they all looked exactly the same.
I checked the sites and they where all set up just a couple of days ago, from Russia.
Found nothing fishy about them.

Curiosity hit me, so i used a throwaway steam-account and logged on to the sites.
The moment i told them, the person that had sent the link unfriended me and stopped answering questions.

The account has not been compromised (yet), nothing seemed to happen.
I took precaution not to infect my computer.

I'm just wondering what this is?
Do they get money for clicks? Seems like a lot of work for petty cash.

Maybe the phishing-attempt is later on?

Has anyone else experienced this?

[Detective Pigeon]

Don’t click on any links they send you. If ur bad they probably won’t invite you to a tournament so seems fishy. Probably a scam

[Detective Pigeon]

I’ve had people add me and then they say they need a 5th player for their tournament. If it seems too good to be true it 100% is

[taki]

Originally posted by Klättermusen:

I have been added by four random seemingly serious folks on steam, only to either be invited to participate in a tournament (i'm not that good) or to rate their team in said tournament.

The four tournaments where hosted on different websites, but they all looked exactly the same.
I checked the sites and they where all set up just a couple of days ago, from Russia.
Found nothing fishy about them.

Curiosity hit me, so i used a throwaway steam-account and logged on to the sites.
The moment i told them, the person that had sent the link unfriended me and stopped answering questions.

The account has not been compromised (yet), nothing seemed to happen.
I took precaution not to infect my computer.

I'm just wondering what this is?
Do they get money for clicks? Seems like a lot of work for petty cash.

Maybe the phishing-attempt is later on?

Has anyone else experienced this?

what is the point ot have a fake screenshot without knife ? i am pretty sure youve never had this knife in your inventory
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=595417919

[reg1s7]

That is a common scam method. Basically they have fake steam login, designed to take your login credentials. They then will try to steal your skins by modifying your outgoing trade offers.

Btw, "set up a few days ago" should already be fishy enough...

[Detective Pigeon]

If you’re not 100% sure. Don’t participate in whatever they ask you, just leave the group and unfriendly people who add you from that group

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

Originally posted by taki:

Originally posted by Klättermusen:

I have been added by four random seemingly serious folks on steam, only to either be invited to participate in a tournament (i'm not that good) or to rate their team in said tournament.

The four tournaments where hosted on different websites, but they all looked exactly the same.
I checked the sites and they where all set up just a couple of days ago, from Russia.
Found nothing fishy about them.

Curiosity hit me, so i used a throwaway steam-account and logged on to the sites.
The moment i told them, the person that had sent the link unfriended me and stopped answering questions.

The account has not been compromised (yet), nothing seemed to happen.
I took precaution not to infect my computer.

I'm just wondering what this is?
Do they get money for clicks? Seems like a lot of work for petty cash.

Maybe the phishing-attempt is later on?

Has anyone else experienced this?

what is the point ot have a fake screenshot without knife ? i am pretty sure you;ve never had this knife in your inventory
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=595417919

He could have it mate you dont know stop making assumptions

[Detective Pigeon]

Originally posted by taki:

Originally posted by Klättermusen:

I have been added by four random seemingly serious folks on steam, only to either be invited to participate in a tournament (i'm not that good) or to rate their team in said tournament.

The four tournaments where hosted on different websites, but they all looked exactly the same.
I checked the sites and they where all set up just a couple of days ago, from Russia.
Found nothing fishy about them.

Curiosity hit me, so i used a throwaway steam-account and logged on to the sites.
The moment i told them, the person that had sent the link unfriended me and stopped answering questions.

The account has not been compromised (yet), nothing seemed to happen.
I took precaution not to infect my computer.

I'm just wondering what this is?
Do they get money for clicks? Seems like a lot of work for petty cash.

Maybe the phishing-attempt is later on?

Has anyone else experienced this?

what is the point ot have a fake screenshot without knife ? i am pretty sure youve never had this knife in your inventory
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=595417919

Bro this has nothing to do with what he asked tho

[taki]

Originally posted by Idk a good name:

Originally posted by taki:

what is the point ot have a fake screenshot without knife ? i am pretty sure you;ve never had this knife in your inventory
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=595417919

He could have it mate you dont know stop making assumptions

this screenshot has 4896 likes and i have that player who is owner of this screenshot. that player is my steam friend. this is 100% + 1 like

[starfishy]

Perhaps they wait with stealing the account until you have dropped some cash into it. But it most definitely is phishing scam.

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

Originally posted by taki:

Originally posted by Idk a good name:

He could have it mate you dont know stop making assumptions

this screenshot has 4896 likes and i have that player who is owner of this screenshot. that player is my steam friend. this is 100% + 1 like

sauce?

[Vault Hunter 101]

The login page is fake, you give your login,password and mobile auth to the website owner which uses a bot to log on that account, then they remove everything from your profile and put some crappy text saying you will be banned for violating steam rules and if you dont trade your items they will get locked on your account.

After you send the offer the bot that is STILL logged on your account will cancel all offers and remake them so you give everything from your inv to somebody else, then you accept on mobile and boom rip items.

"Maybe the phishing-attempt is later on?"
The phishing already happened right as you put all your details of that throwaway account.

[Flareon]

They didn't take your throwaway account, cause it has no value.

[little green man]

just join their tournaments

[Klättermusen]

Originally posted by 🍦EvanS_3826:

That is a common scam method. Basically they have fake steam login, designed to take your login credentials. They then will try to steal your skins by modifying your outgoing trade offers.

Btw, "set up a few days ago" should already be fishy enough...

Yeah, i went in knowingly that i was a scam.
That's why i used a throwaway account.

Thanks for the explanation.

[Klättermusen]

Originally posted by Vault Hunter 101:

The login page is fake, you give your login,password and mobile auth to the website owner which uses a bot to log on that account, then they remove everything from your profile and put some crappy text saying you will be banned for violating steam rules and if you dont trade your items they will get locked on your account.

After you send the offer the bot that is STILL logged on your account will cancel all offers and remake them so you give everything from your inv to somebody else, then you accept on mobile and boom rip items.

"Maybe the phishing-attempt is later on?"
The phishing already happened right as you put all your details of that throwaway account.

Thank you.
Now i understand.
As I suspected, a scam.