New method to hack steam account?

[吉吉向上扣肉包]

Hi everyone
I think my account was almost hacked.
And it seems like a new method, I'm not sure if it's based on some unknown bug from the new chat window.

So here is the story:
A guy on my steam friend list sends me a message for asking me to change my steam nick, by adding "dotafive" in the end.
He says, if I change my nickname and keep it for 7 days, he will trade me a dota2 item which worth $150.
I thought it would be a good deal for me, and I just changed my nickname.
But at the moment I changed my nickname and save the profile, my Steam was disconnected.
Lucky thing is, my steam account is not hacked.
But I think the disconnection should be related to the nickname change.

I'm just posting this for u guys.
Hope all of you who read this, could pay attention to this new "trick"

note:
I still couldn't sure, if that guy was trying to hack my account.
Just to share this story, hope our steam account would be safe. :)

[CJ HUNTER]

Originally posted by 老奸巨滑扣肉包 =L=+:

He says, if I change my nickname and keep it for 7 days, he will trade me a dota2 item which worth $150.

Now why would you believe if somebody tells you something like that ? It was a pure coincidence, nobody can hack your Steam account by changing your name.

[Pug]

This is a common (although stupid and mostly used by scam sites) method of getting you to advertise their website on Steam and in games for free. They probably do not intend to give you anything.

P.S. They can't compromise your account just by you changing your profile name in Steam.

[Zekiran]

It's very much not new.

Stop thinking you can get free or cheap stuff. It's not.

[Longhaul]

Just....

[sebbe797]

mein gott

[Muppet among Puppets]

The step to steal your account would have come when you were about to get "paid".
You would have advertised something questionable meanwhile,
and then lost your account. That was the plan likely.

Never log in else than DIRECT on steam. Just a hint.

[吉吉向上扣肉包]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

The step to steal your account would have come when you were about to get "paid".
You would have advertised something questionable meanwhile,
and then lost your account. That was the plan likely.

Never log in else than DIRECT on steam. Just a hint.

That's why I got confused.
Since this guy didn't send me any link, outside of Steam, which needs me to log in.
And I haven't even type in the steam app verification code.
So there is basically no way that this guy could hack my account.
In fact, there are 2 points which I doubt this guy was trying to hack my account.
The first, $150 item trade with a nickname change? make no sense.
The second, my steam disconnected from the moment I changed my nickname and save my profile.
Which just like somebody else logs in ur account.

I just have no idea, how this guy would hack my account.
Maybe he just failed his first try?

That's the reason why I post this.
Maybe I just thought too much.
BTW thank you for ur explanation about the hack stuff.
GL for everyone's account safety. :)

[Muppet among Puppets]

A) He just wanted the advertisement
or
B) Made you "invested" in the procedure so you got used to it enough to go the last step soon.

Just changing your name does nothing in regards of the direct safety of your account.

[Jerry]

Thinking of ways to crash a client by a nickname change, but even if there were special characters, the client can't handle, he would not have been able to send them to you through chat either...

One thing to clarify though

Originally posted by 老奸巨滑扣肉包 =L=+:

Since this guy didn't send me any link, outside of Steam, which needs me to log in.

Does this mean
- he did not send you any link
- he did send you a link that seemingly led to a Steam page (with login? without?)
- he did send you a link to an external page, but there was no login

Point two and three would sound very dangerous to me under these circumstances.

[吉吉向上扣肉包]

Originally posted by Jerry:

Thinking of ways to crash a client by a nickname change, but even if there were special characters, the client can't handle, he would not have been able to send them to you through chat either...

One thing to clarify though

Originally posted by 老奸巨滑扣肉包 =L=+:

Since this guy didn't send me any link, outside of Steam, which needs me to log in.

Does this mean
- he did not send you any link
- he did send you a link that seemingly led to a Steam page (with login? without?)
- he did send you a link to an external page, but there was no login

Point two and three would sound very dangerous to me under these circumstances.

he just didn't send me any link.

[CJ HUNTER]

Get over it, it was a pure coincidence, Steam disconnected everybody yesterday several times, it happens, it does not have 100% uptime. Nobody hacked or scammed you yet, but if you continue to fall for stuff like this it will probably happen sooner or later.