Hello, a person concatenated me on discord about my steam account

[[TrusT] Jonne Lobos | Valx 24]

Someone told me my account was flagged in error and I had to add someone saying themselves from Valave support (Dennis Geels
# 2599) and what this person is indeed the one he wants to be made believe.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

It is a scam.

[JVC]

Go to his profile and use the button to report the profile. State that he tried to scam you and how. Then block the profile so it can't contact you again.

[Kargor]

How lucky for them. Some Steam employee made a mistake, and he just so happens to know how to reach that person on "Discord" so he can tell him to contact some other Steam employee to get his mistake sorted out, because... Steam is trying to cut costs and doesn't allow their employees to talk to each other?

How does the question about whether that's a legitimate scenario keep coming up several times a day?

[BossGalaga]

If you clicked on any links (to include linked images) your account could be compromised.

Go here: https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey

Make sure there are no API keys associated to your account. If you only see a prompt to create a key, then you're good. If there are any API keys on your account and you don't know from who/where/what then remove them and then follow ALL the steps in the guide below.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1523781462

[Radene]

OP. Stop for a second, and really think about it:

1) How would Valve know your discord handle?
2) Even if they did, why would they contact you over discord?

[Taebrythn]

lol as long as people are gullible or just don't think they will fall for scams.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Radene:

OP. Stop for a second, and really think about it:

1) How would Valve know your discord handle?
2) Even if they did, why would they contact you over discord?

I'm pretty sure these scams target Discord users who put their Steam profile links on their Discord profiles.

[ペンギン]

1. How?
And where a link is or another user action, there is a chance to get infos by logs/monitoring e.g.. If those infos are evaluated, automatically maybe, someone can already see where someone is going or where someone is coming from. That's how it works.

2. Even if...
In days where many devs, publishers and platforms use external services for customer support, communication or news (or unfortunately only as the only option), i think it's maybe not so easy sometimes when customers are not familiar with their own main platform.

Why this is so would go beyond the scope of this thread.

But at least there are still people who think for themselves and inquire

[Lilim]

"...on Discord" = Scam .

[Hinonny]

Someone also just tried to scam me in exactly that way. I suggest you: Have a general mistrust in random people on the internet. espacially if the delete their discord acoount right after they sent you the "steam"-guy's Discord-Tag. Here are screenshots of how the scam looked in my case: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ryhub73NImQ98vn2HD-qsLIxvg8Z2l4r?usp=sharing (you gotta trust me on this one lmao xD If not, use some virus-website-scanning tool like virustotal.com or so.)

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

I'm pretty sure these scams target Discord users who put their Steam profile links on their Discord profiles.

They have bots that will automatically join groups, send these messages out en masse to all group members who haven't disabled the group DM function, then leave the group, join another, repeat. Once you respond, they'll just automatically go through the script and send you malicious links to compromise your Steam account. It's not even worth it telling them off, because it's a bot.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

I'm pretty sure these scams target Discord users who put their Steam profile links on their Discord profiles.

They have bots that will automatically join groups, send these messages out en masse to all group members who haven't disabled the group DM function, then leave the group, join another, repeat. Once you respond, they'll just automatically go through the script and send you malicious links to compromise your Steam account. It's not even worth it telling them off, because it's a bot.

I don't doubt that. I've received some of those before myself.

It's just that I wonder how they can do all these DMs to the appropriate victims. They'd need to know that those people have Steam accounts -- and doing that means checking their Discord user profiles for Steam links.

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Originally posted by BossGalaga:

They have bots that will automatically join groups, send these messages out en masse to all group members who haven't disabled the group DM function, then leave the group, join another, repeat. Once you respond, they'll just automatically go through the script and send you malicious links to compromise your Steam account. It's not even worth it telling them off, because it's a bot.

I don't doubt that. I've received some of those before myself.

It's just that I wonder how they can do all these DMs to the appropriate victims. They'd need to know that those people have Steam accounts -- and doing that means checking their Discord user profiles for Steam links.

Many of them just shotgun it out to everyone, regardless of whether or not they have connected accounts. Some will target game discords where it's highly likely the channel users have Steam accounts. And I'm sure there are bots can view a user's profile, see if there's a connected account and then send them a message if applicable. But since not everyone will connect a Steam account to their discord profile even if they have one, it's still easiest for them to simply shotgun it to everyone.

[Igor9361]

same thing happend to me but i dont have any connect with my dicord on steam and i alweys when they sending me such a scam ask them how do they know my disocrd if i didnt ever write it somwhere on my steam or linked or somehting same on discord thats answers that one of them sended me: "someone impersonated you and left me i directly review our chat and i remember that he just send me a server link and name of you, i think you know the guy or something. and i search your name on the server and i found you that's why i contacted you as soon as i can" and also he sended me a screen of me "BUYING" his knife and next saying that i scamed him its ridicules for me that somone would fall for this scam and this is not bot somone just dont have time and try to scam somone i know this cuz last thing he send me when I told him abaut it is sending me a porn picutre and laugh

[Yandy]

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