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Don't focus a superficial detail lest you miss the forest for the trees.
Of course, there aren't 99999 topics that talk about the problem I'm talking about, I checked before creating the topic...
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3951406749570677634/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3951406749571929013/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3951406749570518600/
My point is, if I was able to find 3 from A DAY in a few minutes, trust me, there's thousands more from all the years hijacking Steam accounts has been a thing.
I'm talking about a specific problem that isn't mentioned in other subjects, of course there are plenty of scams out there using other methods, I'm not competing with other subjects, the aim is simply to help. I think that a well-rounded person would easily understand the purpose of my subject.
And years old scam, that was covered hundreds of times will not be suddenly better known, because you have written about it...
This is the core of it! You've nailed it down to the engine of the scam, so to speak, to the way it works. That's the gist of the matter.
Sticking to what you said there, it's the same (mostly, there's a rare different case few'n'far between) scam as all over the place.
You can't have a valuable steam account and not know about this.
That said, what you describe is an old and generally known scam. There have been plenty of psa threads about it. If you haven't found them, you didn't properly search. That also shows how useful psa threads are.
people who would get into trouble never bothered to clean up their act (stop using shady 3d party sides, responding to strangers, clicking links etc)
and they won't bother till something happens, then they will learn the lesson. or probably not.
Having a full friend list of people you never play with is useless.
Just have users you trust or actually play games with.
Problem solved.