These stupid scammers

[Estaniel]

I've been receiving these friend requests from someone with alt accounts.

Their patterns are always the same, he sends me a friend request, i accept him and he tells me about he and a group of ̶i̶m̶a̶g̶i̶n̶a̶r̶y̶ friends are forming a competitive group on a X game (usually he chooses TF2) and that he wants to invite me. Then, he sends me a link of like a "competitive groups management" website or some crap like that to login with my Steam account. I'm stupid but i know a scam when i see it.

Besides, is he not aware of steam guard? What's the point of trying to steal a Steam account if said account has Steam Guard activated?

I'm pretty surprised this has not been discused anywhere on the internet. Am I the only one who has to deal with this dumb specimen every month? I search everywhere about this but got no luck.

He has the following patterns on his accounts:

Profile country: Canada
Profile description: ╭————|⠀ 𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. ⠀|————————————————————╮
𝖂𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖔 𝖒𝖞 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖆𝖒 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖋𝖎𝖑𝖊
⠀⠀⠀⠀ ɪ sᴇᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ғᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴍʏ ᴘʀᴏғɪʟᴇ. ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟғ ᴀᴛ ʜᴏᴍᴇ...
⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀╰————————————————————|⠀ 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆... ⠀|————╯

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Old, old scam...

"Scam: Join a Tournament" FAQ...

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4081-BACF-CA77-27F0

They've recently started spamming on these main forums with this type of scam. At least 18 separate accounts reported and banned the past week alone.

[Abigail From Sexy Salmon Dept.]

Glad you don't fall for it.

Unfortunately plenty of people still do, that's why the scam still goes around.

[Neo]

Scams like this get talked about every single day on these forums, so I'm not sure why you think you're the only person talking about it.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Estaniel:

Besides, is he not aware of steam guard? What's the point of trying to steal a Steam account if said account has Steam Guard activated?

Anyone who's willing to give up their username and password is also willing to give up a Seam Guard code. Once the scammer has access to the account that gives them a lot of power to monitor and manipulate the user.

This statement leads me to believe you think Steam Guard is an invincible shield that allows a user to be careless and reckless with impunity. It is not. It's a lock, and the problem with locks, even the world's best lock is if the user hands over the key, it stop being very much use as a lock. Don't underestimate users ability to mishandle their keys.

The other thing you don't seem to realize is human being don't have a collective consciousness, so even though you might have an awareness and understanding of scams and account security, that knowledge isn't universal. Lots of people don't have that knowledge, and we're making new people every day who will need to learn those lessons at some point. A good chunk of them will have to learn through experience (being scammed).

In short you underestimate how big the ocean is and how many fish there are in it.

That's the other thing you don't understand, scammers are casting nets and they're catching fish, that's the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter how familiar you are with the scam, or how obvious you think it is, or how well known you think it is, or any other ego massaging thinking you might engage in. They're still catching plenty of fish, and the fact that you're not biting is inconsequential.

Everything that filters skeptical people out, intentional or not benefits the scammer, they really only want to deal with gullible, careless and reckless people anyway. Time is money and the user willing to rush into catastrophe is ideal. The less effort the better, and arguably a flimsy obvious scam that someone still falls for paints them as a pretty promising target. "Only the dumbest users need apply please, we're trying to make a living here", says the scammer.

[Pscht]

Originally posted by Estaniel:

he sends me a friend request, i accept

Then maybe don't do it?

[Estaniel]

Originally posted by nullable:

Originally posted by Estaniel:

Besides, is he not aware of steam guard? What's the point of trying to steal a Steam account if said account has Steam Guard activated?

Anyone who's willing to give up their username and password is also willing to give up a Seam Guard code. Once the scammer has access to the account that gives them a lot of power to monitor and manipulate the user.

This statement leads me to believe you think Steam Guard is an invincible shield that allows a user to be careless and reckless with impunity. It is not. It's a lock, and the problem with locks, even the world's best lock is if the user hands over the key, it stop being very much use as a lock. Don't underestimate users ability to mishandle their keys.

The other thing you don't seem to realize is human being don't have a collective consciousness, so even though you might have an awareness and understanding of scams and account security, that knowledge isn't universal. Lots of people don't have that knowledge, and we're making new people every day who will need to learn those lessons at some point. A good chunk of them will have to learn through experience (being scammed).

In short you underestimate how big the ocean is and how many fish there are in it.

That's the other thing you don't understand, scammers are casting nets and they're catching fish, that's the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter how familiar you are with the scam, or how obvious you think it is, or how well known you think it is, or any other ego massaging thinking you might engage in. They're still catching plenty of fish, and the fact that you're not biting is inconsequential.

Everything that filters skeptical people out, intentional or not benefits the scammer, they really only want to deal with gullible, careless and reckless people anyway. Time is money and the user willing to rush into catastrophe is ideal. The less effort the better, and arguably a flimsy obvious scam that someone still falls for paints them as a pretty promising target. "Only the dumbest users need apply please, we're trying to make a living here", says the scammer.

I'm not answering allat. Half of your message content is just assumptions that i didn't say. Go get mad with someone else lol.

[Estaniel]

Originally posted by Pscht:

Originally posted by Estaniel:

he sends me a friend request, i accept

Then maybe don't do it?

maybe im saying that because i don't do it anymore?

[Estaniel]

Originally posted by Abigail From Sneaky Shrimp Dept.:

Glad you don't fall for it.

Unfortunately plenty of people still do, that's why the scam still goes around.

I came to that conclusion too, it amazes me how some people can fall for that.

[76561199559798421]

the best thing you can do it keep telling them you signed up for it but never sign up and completely ignore them while they think the scam they did work, that way they waste even more time trying to access the information you never give them