Fake "Gift 50$" steam link links to real steamcommunity.com

[root@Nero:~#]

Hi all,

A friend got a message from another friend about "Gift 50$" with next to it, the *real* steamcommunity.com link, then a bunch of numbers. I know - we know - and I hope everyone knows it's a scam. But this one has me perplexed. What's the point of this one if it leads to the real steam, and since it's a "bad" url, redirects to the frontpage of Steam?

I've been trying to find anything, hoping to see a "smart" IDN homograph attack or something, but nothing. Trying to google it up got me no answer aswell.

Thanks for your time :)

edit: just for clarification, when I talk about the link, it's literally just "steamcommunity.com/" and then a bunch of numbers. no "/gift/" or "/profile/" or anything like that. Why bother hacking into a Discord account just to post a real steamcommunity link?

[Ghostley]

I actually got this exact same thing you describe today

Steamcommunity was spelled correctly but there was a link hidden that it will actually link you to instead of steamcommunity.
If you copy the text it will show something like this:

$50 steam -
[steamcommunity .com/ gift/ id={numberhere}]
(htt ps: // e. vg / gift -{numberhere})

You would think it would lead you to steamcommunity/gift but it actually lead to evg/gift which is probably a phising site!

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

İlk olarak Ghostley tarafından gönderildi:

I actually got this exact same thing you describe today

Steamcommunity was spelled correctly but there was a link hidden that it will actually link you to instead of steamcommunity.
If you copy the text it will show something like this:

$50 steam -
[steamcommunity .com/ gift/ id={numberhere}]
(htt ps: // e. vg / gift -{numberhere})

You would think it would lead you to steamcommunity/gift but it actually lead to evg/gift which is probably a phising site!

Scammers setup domain names, and add things to them.

steamcommunity.app123 .com/gift so while see that you see things in between, what really the problem.

See my screenshot for example.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3430196039