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✪ SyTeX Jul 10, 2021 @ 2:50am

Help is this a scam?

Someone I used to play with sent me a sus trade offer link and ik it's a scam becuz it's says "stearncomunitu" in the link

Last edited by ✪ SyTeX; Jul 10, 2021 @ 2:53am

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Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX 31™:
Originally posted by misoft50:
If you have already clicked on a link, it is best to secure your account immediately.
This means:
Activate 2-step authentication (either via email or phone), activate SteamGuard, get and store the rescue codes from Steam for your account, and keep those. They can be useful in case his account is hacked, and these codes can be used to log into his account and take ownership of the account. Those codes are for the account holder only and need to be obtained while the account is still being accessed - he won't be able to access them later.

Translate from slovak language.
I already have the steam guard enabled and I revoked the api key, and reauthorized every device that has my login, such as trusted sites...
Am I safe?

If you didn't "log in", there's no need to do anything

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FFL2and3rocks Jul 10, 2021 @ 2:52am

Obviously a scam, so you should remove the link from your post.

✪ SyTeX Jul 10, 2021 @ 2:55am

Originally posted by FFL2and3rocks:
Obviously a scam, so you should remove the link from your post.

I clicked the link just to see what will happen and it took me to some user's trade offers page and if I try to check the user's profile it's says it blocked!

Cathulhu Jul 10, 2021 @ 2:56am

I hope you didn't enter any login credentials there.

✪ SyTeX Jul 10, 2021 @ 2:58am

Originally posted by Cathulhu:
I hope you didn't enter any login credentials there.

No I didn't, I know the api scam method
I just clicked the link and took me to the page where you select items of the person from trade offers!

BeingDisliked Jul 10, 2021 @ 5:29am

do not click it

J4MESOX4D Jul 10, 2021 @ 5:37am

Never click on fake links even out of curiosity.

misoft50 Jul 10, 2021 @ 7:27am

If you have already clicked on a link, it is best to secure your account immediately.
This means:
Activate 2-step authentication (either via email or phone), activate SteamGuard, get and store the rescue codes from Steam for your account, and keep those. They can be useful in case his account is hacked, and these codes can be used to log into his account and take ownership of the account. Those codes are for the account holder only and need to be obtained while the account is still being accessed - he won't be able to access them later.

Translate from slovak language.

Last edited by misoft50; Jul 10, 2021 @ 7:28am

✪ SyTeX Jul 10, 2021 @ 7:56am

Originally posted by misoft50:
If you have already clicked on a link, it is best to secure your account immediately.
This means:
Activate 2-step authentication (either via email or phone), activate SteamGuard, get and store the rescue codes from Steam for your account, and keep those. They can be useful in case his account is hacked, and these codes can be used to log into his account and take ownership of the account. Those codes are for the account holder only and need to be obtained while the account is still being accessed - he won't be able to access them later.

Translate from slovak language.

I already have the steam guard enabled and I revoked the api key, and reauthorized every device that has my login, such as trusted sites...
Am I safe?

Last edited by ✪ SyTeX; Jul 10, 2021 @ 8:01am

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ReBoot Jul 10, 2021 @ 9:33am

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX 31™:
Originally posted by misoft50:
If you have already clicked on a link, it is best to secure your account immediately.
This means:
Activate 2-step authentication (either via email or phone), activate SteamGuard, get and store the rescue codes from Steam for your account, and keep those. They can be useful in case his account is hacked, and these codes can be used to log into his account and take ownership of the account. Those codes are for the account holder only and need to be obtained while the account is still being accessed - he won't be able to access them later.

Translate from slovak language.
I already have the steam guard enabled and I revoked the api key, and reauthorized every device that has my login, such as trusted sites...
Am I safe?

If you didn't "log in", there's no need to do anything

DC-GS Jul 10, 2021 @ 10:37am

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX 31™:
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
I hope you didn't enter any login credentials there.
No I didn't, I know the api scam method
I just clicked the link and took me to the page where you select items of the person from trade offers!

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX 31™:
I revoked the api key,

Well thats strange. If you did not enter your login, how could they put an api key in your profile?
You are hiding something.

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✪ SyTeX Jul 10, 2021 @ 10:52am

Originally posted by DC-GS:
Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX 31™:
No I didn't, I know the api scam method
I just clicked the link and took me to the page where you select items of the person from trade offers!

Originally posted by ✪ SyTeX 31™:
I revoked the api key,

Well thats strange. If you did not enter your login, how could they put an api key in your profile?
You are hiding something.

It's me who added the key long time ago when the YouTuber anomaly uploaded his video about api key scams

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