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Okay, here's the thing, it does
The "steamcommunity.com" I posted, I copy-pasted it from his message. I'm confident, 100% sure this is the right url.
This isn't the point of me posting this message. Please read my original post.
I want to figure stuff out, it's what I do, it's what I like to do. I want to figure out why would someone get into someone's discord account to post a real steam url, because I'm sure of it it's real, it's not misspelled, nothing.
Old scam.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/2592234299571197182/
Going waaaaaaay back...
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/558754899933789316/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/523898291503812045/
At one point, the Global Volunteer mods helped adding all the variations of the Steam link to the filter (many of us regulars helped send the links to them) but some time in the past couple years, Vavle removed them from the filter for some dumb reason.
It's been making the rounds really hard again the past few months.
No. This wasn't the correct thing. I saw your copy-pasted message a while ago, and no. It wasn't that. I was just unaware you could have embeds in Discord.
Fake Steam links are one of them.
Putting a different URL as the link text is one of the oldest trick in the book
Steam changed how they show URLs to combat that IE:
https://www.wikipedia.org/
Not sure how it works on Discord
Except that intentionally doesn't work in messages from humans, and I'm pretty sure bot messages aren't officially allowed in account-to-account chats, only in servers.
So Discord would probably be interested in what that scammer account is doing, since it's a violation of their TOS even if it wasn't also a scam.
- You can't do gifting via url. People can gift via Steam, but you only get notification via site & client, email, and pop up when you login to steam client. If anyone giving you a link for a gift it's automatic red flag scam.
PLEASE NOTE Discord has a problem where it allow uses to change the path of their hyperlink
using a command so they can say whatever they want, but the link goes somewhere else.
- Steam support will never do support outside of Steam, they don't do DMs, voice call, email, phone call, or sms, they only reply to tickets you make via Steam help page only on site no where else.
Anyone claim to be Steam admin/support automatically red flag scam. Scammers use claims having pending bans, or whatever.
- Scammers use tricks like vote for my team or you won a prize and try to trick you to login to their scam site, they even use FAKE tab pop up within your browser to trick you thinking it real thing but it just a fake phishing page to get you to login.
These are not new scams, or recent at all been around for years, the issue is people either ignore these signs, PSA, never take notice, be ignorant thinking it can't happen to them, or just want to play stupid games win stupid prizes learning hard way.
education I guess is the best medicine, since Valve won't remove malicious urls or find a way to at least slow down the number of accounts posting scam urls.
url scan io or phish report - as soon people can get fakes reported to security sites and host, to get the hosts to shut down the sites the criminals already have new spoofed urls to switch to and spread. Then it takes days, weeks months to get them reported and shut down again. sounds just like VAC and cheats huh?