NEW SCAM Mafia: The Old Country Playtest Access

[✪elektraN.prO✪#♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!]

my friend on my steam got a Invite to Mafia: The Old Country Playtest Access
DO NOT PRESS TO LOG IN OR NOTHING, ASK your firends and so on if thats really you have send this, and i have tell all of them not to go in to them or logg in and its not me!

[J4MESOX4D]

Escrito originalmente por Lilim:

Escrito originalmente por Mr. Sparkle:

I clicked on the link in the chat, but then didn't click on accept and closed the window. Should I be worried?

You don't have to be worried if you didn't enter your login details.

Escrito originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

This has been a going on since the Deadlock playtest. Playtest invites are never sent through chat messages.

I have a question!

Last year, during the Deadlock playtest, people were also inviting each other. Were these invites sent through chat?

The Deadlock invites require users to be on each others friends list and then the person with access invites them in-game https://i.redd.it/yd0qz5rb7gld1.png and they receive a pop-up in the client that looks like this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVB3203WEAArOIF.jpg:large

A typical scammer message in chat appears like this https://imgur.com/a/Aar7aet

[Lilim]

Escrito originalmente por J4MESOX4D:

The Deadlock invites require users to be on each others friends list and then the person with access invites them in-game https://i.redd.it/yd0qz5rb7gld1.png and they receive a pop-up in the client that looks like this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVB3203WEAArOIF.jpg:large

A typical scammer message in chat appears like this https://imgur.com/a/Aar7aet

Thanks .

[dead]

Lost about $20k inventory to this scam :( friend sent playtest link (why introduce easy scamable playtests), clicked on it, looked legit, two days later inventory emptied and balamce emptied... pissed @ steam for allowing this bullcrap, somehow my authenticator was switched to a phone in st petersburg russia ... wtf my credit card stops transactions if its a couple of states over, how come steam allows this crap. And then allowing trades for several thousand dollars of inventory for nothing .... how easy would it be for steam to flag the transaction and at least put it on hold... but nope nothing ...... thanks steam

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Escrito originalmente por dead:

Lost about $20k inventory to this scam :(

Somehow doubt, but I won't agure either way.

Escrito originalmente por dead:

friend sent playtest link (why introduce easy scamable playtests), clicked on it, looked legit, two days later inventory emptied and balamce emptied... pissed @ steam for allowing this bullcrap, somehow my authenticator was switched to a phone in st petersburg russia ... wtf my credit card stops transactions if its a couple of states over, how come steam allows this crap. And then allowing trades for several thousand dollars of inventory for nothing .... how easy would it be for steam to flag the transaction and at least put it on hold... but nope nothing ...... thanks steam

Here the thing there always scammers going out of their way to make anything, and everything look legit to scam people. This kind of scam been going on for decades where people losing their emails, accounts, and all kinds of things to scammers, the real problem is when people act 1st before thinking, or else none of this would be happening, you wouldn't be here either yet here we are.

The problem is that once Scammer get access to your account on their device they try to remove everything, or sit on your account to do scam later like adding new scam friend, trick you to trade, and repeat scam to all your friends.

[๔єค๔ק๏๏ɭ]

Got this Link today...DNS Records for n e x t p l a y t e s t . c o m already deleted? Was not possible to view content. How did the Site look? Never login on those sites....

[Noodle]

I fell for this and clicked that link. They blocked everyone in my friendlist and send the same message to some of my friends. I dont know how did they get to my account with trust factor activated. I changed my password, checked authorized devices and scan my pc with windows defender. What was their main target with this? Am i safe now? I really need some explanation.

[Noodle]

Escrito originalmente por dead:

Lost about $20k inventory to this scam :( friend sent playtest link (why introduce easy scamable playtests), clicked on it, looked legit, two days later inventory emptied and balamce emptied... pissed @ steam for allowing this bullcrap, somehow my authenticator was switched to a phone in st petersburg russia ... wtf my credit card stops transactions if its a couple of states over, how come steam allows this crap. And then allowing trades for several thousand dollars of inventory for nothing .... how easy would it be for steam to flag the transaction and at least put it on hold... but nope nothing ...... thanks steam

do you think their main target is inventory with this scam? they cant reach over to our credit cards that we used for steam right? And i am sorry for your loss.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Good lord people have some common sense and stop being such easy marks for these incredibly dumb scams

[Noodle]

Escrito originalmente por Heraclius Caesar:

Good lord people have some common sense and stop being such easy marks for these incredibly dumb scams

It comes from a men that is in your friendlist for a very long time.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Escrito originalmente por Captain Noodle:

Escrito originalmente por Heraclius Caesar:

Good lord people have some common sense and stop being such easy marks for these incredibly dumb scams

It comes from a men that is in your friendlist for a very long time.

Because they fall for the same thing. The hijacker turns around and uses their account to spam the links to their friends and on and on...

[Heraclius Caesar]

Escrito originalmente por Captain Noodle:

Escrito originalmente por Heraclius Caesar:

Good lord people have some common sense and stop being such easy marks for these incredibly dumb scams

It comes from a men that is in your friendlist for a very long time.

Doesn't matter, my oldest friend could send me a completely innocent looking link through chat and I would not click it and would most likely promptly remove & block the friend. At the end of the day everyone is a stranger on the internet so act accordingly and don't be such an easy target.

It's literally not a skill or talent to keep oneself from falling for stupid scams on Steam or the internet in general.

Also do yourself a favor and stop believing that it's your special day to get a free blessing of a gift card or new game playtest or rare knife skin or whatever else you people fall for.

[Noodle]

Escrito originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Escrito originalmente por Captain Noodle:

It comes from a men that is in your friendlist for a very long time.

Because they fall for the same thing. The hijacker turns around and uses their account to spam the links to their friends and on and on...

:nkCool:

Because of my account is under protection of steam guard they get on my friends to find the one which is not. Am i right?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Escrito originalmente por Captain Noodle:

Escrito originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Because they fall for the same thing. The hijacker turns around and uses their account to spam the links to their friends and on and on...

Because of my account is under protection of steam guard they get on my friends to find the one which is not. Am i right?

Steam Gaurd is irrelevant for these types of phishing links.

[Noodle]

Escrito originalmente por Heraclius Caesar:

Escrito originalmente por Captain Noodle:

It comes from a men that is in your friendlist for a very long time.

Doesn't matter, my oldest friend could send me a completely innocent looking link through chat and I would not click it and would most likely promptly remove & block the friend. At the end of the day everyone is a stranger on the internet so act accordingly and don't be such an easy target.

It's literally not a skill or talent to keep oneself from falling for stupid scams on Steam or the internet in general.

Also do yourself a favor and stop believing that it's your special day to get a free blessing of a gift card or new game playtest or rare knife skin or whatever else you people fall for.

You are right. I shouldnt have clicked on that. It was obvious. I guess they are searching for the ones without steam guard. I am so glad my account is linked to my phone.

[Noodle]

Escrito originalmente por cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Escrito originalmente por Captain Noodle:

Because of my account is under protection of steam guard they get on my friends to find the one which is not. Am i right?

Steam Gaurd is irrelevant for these types of phishing links.

:nkCool:

What i meant is they couldnt pull out my money or my items from my account because of steam guard.