wtf are these scammers/hackers? steam do something

[Cpt. DeliciousPants]

today one of my friends got scammed by a hacker who sends chat like a an admin or something he's account was clear like hacker block all of his friends and delete everything he had in his account like avatar comments .... and im like wtf is this? why steam cant do anything about this hackers ?
here is the story hacker send wierd messages like highlighted blue text and his account was clear (all friends blocked, comment and stuff deleted) and told him to send his items(skins) to one of his friends and he check that account's friends and it was real and he made a trade and confrim it with his phone and suddenly he realised that his not his friend's account
he checked it in his pc when he was about to send his items
anyway his friend didnt get items and all sent to the hacker's account ( i dont know how )
im just saying that steam need to do something about this hackers that they using i think rest api or some kind of program that make bots and stuff and scam people not just saying that is not our problem you should secure your account i mean we tried but this kind of way to scam is too smart and they are using codes and programs to make everything real just do something about this api or bots
i will put two screenshots about the way he hacked my friend and you judge

screenshot #1[cdn.discordapp.com]
screenshot #2[cdn.discordapp.com]

[Supafly]

Not hacked/hacker. Hijacker/hijacked.


Friends account was compromised. Likely due to them entering login credentials on a phishing website.That allowed them to access the account. Then when they sent a trade to their friend the hijackers BOT cancelled it. It then modified their account to look like your friends target and resent the trade all with a few seconds so your friend didn't notice a delay. They then ignored the warning about the target NOT being a friend and confirmed the trade.

Their skins are gone. Report the account that received them, block, move on and stop

Logging in on dodgy sites
Believing stupid messages on your profile
Confirming trades Without paying attention to the warnings and checking them.

[J4MESOX4D]

Steam do more than enough https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B it's the users that are the problem. They are not 'hackers' either - just common scammers preying on the most gullible and reckless.

[Pheex]

Nothing can protect you from lacking common sense.

[nullable]

Valve can't make users keep their accounts secure. And you might find it's pretty hard to impede scammers from doing things, and not impede legitimate activities by users.

I mean the scammer is using chat well lots of users are using chat. Maybe Steam should monitor all chats and babysit/interject any time something seems suspicious. You know how people love being spied on.

Every time Steam implements a new layer of security users come out of the woodwork to wail about how awful, cumbersome, impossible it is. It is quite a thin line to walk.

Pretty easy to sit from the comfort of your chair with no responsibilities and cast stones and not be concerned about the complexity or scope of the issue.

[76561197960287930]

here is Valve doing something about chat scammers..../s

examples:

https://steamcommunity.com/chat/invite/enbgXf6b

https://steamcommunity.com/chat/invite/USfKymVa

https://steamcommunity.com/chat/invite/FrAMj4q0

you want more?

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

Originally posted by 76561197960287930:

here is Valve doing something about chat scammers..../s

examples:

Snip

you want more?

Did you really post scam links dude? Why didn't you just link imgur pictures, all you did was just set up people to be attacked man.....

[Тропами Старых Историй]

Originally posted by Zoomlord:

today one of my friends got scammed by a hacker who sends chat like a an admin or something he's account was clear like hacker block all of his friends and delete everything he had in his account like avatar comments .... and im like wtf is this? why steam cant do anything about this hackers ?
here is the story hacker send wierd messages like highlighted blue text and his account was clear (all friends blocked, comment and stuff deleted) and told him to send his items(skins) to one of his friends and he check that account's friends and it was real and he made a trade and confrim it with his phone and suddenly he realised that his not his friend's account
he checked it in his pc when he was about to send his items
anyway his friend didnt get items and all sent to the hacker's account ( i dont know how )
im just saying that steam need to do something about this hackers that they using i think rest api or some kind of program that make bots and stuff and scam people not just saying that is not our problem you should secure your account i mean we tried but this kind of way to scam is too smart and they are using codes and programs to make everything real just do something about this api or bots
i will put two screenshots about the way he hacked my friend and you judge

screenshot #1[cdn.discordapp.com]
screenshot #2[cdn.discordapp.com]

Stop using the the internet.

[󠄉󠀁󠀁󠁿󠁿]

If you're observant enough you can often notice, these phishing bots and scammers, in your email, on the junk mail category, this doesn't even take into account the majority of them, which are blocked by your email, before even reaching the destination. Not many people look through their junk mail, so often a illusion of them not existing may be created.

When you look a scam message for instance, the two types which i have experienced, is the one advertising you being a winner or the one threatening you. Both are common methods, we had these lottery winner scams, for a long time in history and now in the internet. Most people understand already that you don't win something just by doing nothing, such as getting a random email saying you're the winner of this price just put your credit card details to win this price.

Instead the modern trend of scams is this threatening type, something mimicing authority to get your money, such as police, goverment or known companies, so that is one of the reasons why VALVe doesn't never directly add you and send you messages via chat, the same way police doesn't send you a email saying, that you have done a crime and should pay in crypto, to this adress to get this random fine paid, which you know, you have done nothing to deserve it.

The reason for the crypto, and other ways to detach the transactions from the bank is that, it is harder to track, but still not impossible, since even the crypto leaves breadcrumbs to be followed, if the person who is the victim is interested to follow it. Often these scammers are based in countries, where things may come into the way, to prevent justice from happening, so a lot of pressure and patience is needed, but fundementally taking these scammers down, has a positive impact on the wellbeing of Earth, since once there are proper incentives, to not do this kind of behaviour, so does the scamming decrease.

[Cpt. DeliciousPants]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Not hacked/hacker. Hijacker/hijacked.


Friends account was compromised. Likely due to them entering login credentials on a phishing website.That allowed them to access the account. Then when they sent a trade to their friend the hijackers BOT cancelled it. It then modified their account to look like your friends target and resent the trade all with a few seconds so your friend didn't notice a delay. They then ignored the warning about the target NOT being a friend and confirmed the trade.

Their skins are gone. Report the account that received them, block, move on and stop

Logging in on dodgy sites
Believing stupid messages on your profile
Confirming trades Without paying attention to the warnings and checking them.

sure i'm aware about this stuff just saying why steam don't do anything about the way they are using to scam people

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by 76561197960287930:

here is Valve doing something about chat scammers..../s

examples:

https://steamcommunity.com/chat/invite/enbgXf6b

https://steamcommunity.com/chat/invite/USfKymVa

https://steamcommunity.com/chat/invite/FrAMj4q0

you want more?

Ya dude... If those links are what I think they are, please delete them and don't become part of the problem...

[Cpt. DeliciousPants]

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:

Steam do more than enough https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B it's the users that are the problem. They are not 'hackers' either - just common scammers preying on the most gullible and reckless.

there is a big difference between helping someone to walk or teach him how to walk
when you can stop scammers why you teaching them to not get scammed

[RasaNova]

Originally posted by Zoomlord:

Originally posted by Supafly:

Not hacked/hacker. Hijacker/hijacked.


Friends account was compromised. Likely due to them entering login credentials on a phishing website.That allowed them to access the account. Then when they sent a trade to their friend the hijackers BOT cancelled it. It then modified their account to look like your friends target and resent the trade all with a few seconds so your friend didn't notice a delay. They then ignored the warning about the target NOT being a friend and confirmed the trade.

Their skins are gone. Report the account that received them, block, move on and stop

Logging in on dodgy sites
Believing stupid messages on your profile
Confirming trades Without paying attention to the warnings and checking them.

sure i'm aware about this stuff just saying why steam don't do anything about the way they are using to scam people

They do. They give people tools to help make their accounts more secure. But if people are going to give away their account info, unintentionally of course, Valve is limited in what they can do. The safest thing is to probably remove the market and trading entirely, but you could imagine how well that would go over.

[Cpt. DeliciousPants]

Originally posted by RasaNova:

Originally posted by Zoomlord:

sure i'm aware about this stuff just saying why steam don't do anything about the way they are using to scam people

They do. They give people tools to help make their accounts more secure. But if people are going to give away their account info, unintentionally of course, Valve is limited in what they can do. The safest thing is to probably remove the market and trading entirely, but you could imagine how well that would go over.

you are right but the point is everything is possible but when you see benefit in something you will not stop that like hackers in game or scammers in market

[happy]

Originally posted by Zoomlord:

Originally posted by RasaNova:

They do. They give people tools to help make their accounts more secure. But if people are going to give away their account info, unintentionally of course, Valve is limited in what they can do. The safest thing is to probably remove the market and trading entirely, but you could imagine how well that would go over.

you are right but the point is everything is possible but when you see benefit in something you will not stop that like hackers in game or scammers in market

So Valve should remove Stuff like Skins and Community Market because dumbo People like your Friend lack basic Common Sense?
That's a crazy thought process.

[Cpt. DeliciousPants]

Originally posted by happy:

Originally posted by Zoomlord:

you are right but the point is everything is possible but when you see benefit in something you will not stop that like hackers in game or scammers in market

So Valve should remove Stuff like Skins and Community Market because dumbo People like your Friend lack basic Common Sense?
That's a crazy thought process.

i dont know why you mad but no need to remove items just change some policies on rest api's that scripters using it