Scammers using friends names!

[Puggles2g]

I was almost duped into accepting a friend request from someone calling themself Gamerfly666 which is a friend of mine on Steam. They were really trying hard to make a friendship even going so far as contacting other people I know to ask them to get me to accept this friend request. We all thought it was a bit fishy. But I agree that if a name is unique and not generic like say, Chris, for example, something like Gamerfly666, that should be a one time deal locked to that user. And only after he/she has not used that name/account for a set amount of time should it then be released to use by someone else. There is alot of power in a name Steam! How would you feel if I opened up a gaming platform and called it Steam? Lawsuit maybe? Well thats how some of us feel when someone else uses our unique gamer tag to dupe people into trading or worse.... Something to think about.

[SK!LLHuNTerZ]

I got a lot of requests in the past 2-3 months but nowadays I think there are fewer hackers/scammers than before.

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Just report the profile. And be careful in the future. Cheers

[Puggles2g]

Yeah I did, but it is still a concern. We are here to game, and I know online vigilance is a must these days, but I have younger relatives who play games online and it is their safety I worry about too. I suppose all we can do is educate our kids to be 'cautious bordering on paranoid' by default and hope it doesn't change the way they see the world.... I know it has definately changed the way I see the world.

[Blargo]

The internet is full of scammers, not just Steam.
Unfortunately, it's just something we have to deal with - there's no way to get rid of them permanently.
Vigilance is all anyone can use against them.

[Puggles2g]

What about a shotgun? LOL

[Zekiran]

Don't forget that all of the 'friends' you have on your list that suddenly turn weird, were real people you might have befriended at one point, but their accounts have been stolen.

The scammers were trying to get YOURS, and perpetuate the cycle.

ONLY the user can control whether their account is hijacked. There are no hackers, only scammers and phishing sites.

[kitt]

Escrito originalmente por puggles2g:

I was almost duped into accepting a friend request from someone calling themself Gamerfly666 which is a friend of mine on Steam.

so he is your friend on steam but you get a friend request from your friend who already is your friend?

huh?

[alice ♥]

You really want to be double checking accounts, people will do anything to scam people, it's ridiculous.

[Puggles2g]

Escrito originalmente por kitt:

Escrito originalmente por puggles2g:

I was almost duped into accepting a friend request from someone calling themself Gamerfly666 which is a friend of mine on Steam.

so he is your friend on steam but you get a friend request from your friend who already is your friend?

huh?

Yes I got another friend request from someone of the same name, but first it was a request on another platform, on the UPLAY server thingy. Then they tried it on Steam obviously not knowing I had already clicked onto it.

[Puggles2g]

Then Gamerfly666 (The real one) actually showed me a screenshot he had captured of THREE Gamerfly666's all from different places and stuff. But the issue wasnt that it was the same name it was that they were trying to pass themself off as someone else!

[Puggles2g]

Escrito originalmente por kitt:

Escrito originalmente por puggles2g:

I was almost duped into accepting a friend request from someone calling themself Gamerfly666 which is a friend of mine on Steam.

so he is your friend on steam but you get a friend request from your friend who already is your friend?

huh?

I thought maybe he had unfriended me by mistake and was re-friending me, and i almost accepted it. Then I realised that this person was trying it on multiple gaming platforms I use. Xbox Beta, Uplay, Steam and so on