Can you get hacked for putting a link in your bio?

[MorgnMuffin]

might seem like a dumb question but im not taking any risks, ive seen how by just accepting cookies i could get say my roblox account taken.

but i grew up with computers and games, the ones with trading and the potential to scam. so i know how and when to avoid things that are probably scams.

so the lore behind the questions starts when some random guy i have no idea who sent me a friend request and i accepted it because i saw he was good and had alot of time in tf2, (for context i love tf2 so i thought we could play some pubs)

so i added this guy but never really spoke to him until he sent me the question if i could help promote his website by putting the link in my bio. normally i wouldnt care but he offered me $50 in tf2 cosmetics and items A WEEK.

this might be couch change to some of you but to a 14 yr kid with no income this sounds like paradise. I wanted to know more about the website because i could feel alot of red flags already and were only 2 mins in a convo.

so i asked him the name and he replied with the link he wanted me to use and i saw the name was "tf2sneep". so i put on a vpn hoping it would add some protection and went to the site.

it was bland, had one image as the background with a prize pool in the center where you could put in items and get a chance to win your stuff and so much other stuff.

what really caught my eye was there was a chat. i tried looking for their steam account saying you had to login via steam, but couldnt find anybody. i did find one guy but he was offline.

now the things in chat being said really caught my eye because sometimes somebody would tell somebody else to do something like shut up or go away (never nice stuff) but they name they said was nowhere to be seen.

at this point every red flag i could think of was ticked. but what if he really will pay me a week for promotion? prob not but i still need this question answered.

i will answer any questions you have as soon as i see them. feel free to ask anything.

[Cathulhu]

Cookies do not get your account "hacked".

Friend requests do not get your account "hacked".

Entering your Steam login credentials on a fake website will get your account compromised, not hacked.

VPNs do not protect you the way you think they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

If you take a look at the "chat" or reload the site, you'll see the chat repeats.

Why should someone pay you? No offense, but you're not exactly a celebrity. Neither am i.

Oh, and use some paragraphs. No one likes to crawl through some wall of text vomit.

[Supafly]

Paragraphs would be nice. A wall of text isn't nice to read.


Get hacked for adding a Link no. Would you be addressing a scam site? YES
Put the address in a scam checking site. For example
https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/tf2sneep.com

Trust rating of just 6.
Negative highlights
The contact email address used is free
The technical contact email address used is free
The contact email for the administrator is free

The website's owner is hiding his identity on WHOIS using a paid service

This website does not have many visitors
We discoved the website is served from a high risk country

Several spammers and scammers use the same registrar

We found indicators that this may be a gambling site

We did not find a SSL certificate (source: Xolphin SSL Check)

This website has only been registered recently.
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You'd essentially just be the bait for a scam. Chances are you wouldn't get anything either, they are scammers after all

[Lithurge]

If during any of this you logged into a third party site and had to give your full credentials - login name, password and Steamguard code you need to take steps to secure your account, e.g. change password, revoke the api key etc...

[rawWwRrr]

I had a lot more to say, but I didn't want to come across as an overbearing "boomer". So I cut it down in hopes of educating a vulnerable kid.

Originally posted by MorgnMuffin:

i grew up with computers and games
...
but to a 14 yr kid with no income this sounds like paradise.

You're not done growing up.

You are being preyed upon by someone wanting to take advantage of your emotional connection to a game. They are promising you game cosmetics, which are essentially worthless but that's a conversation for another time, in exchange for advertisement on your profile. They are hoping that with enough visibility, they can reach a larger group of people who want to participate in their gambling website.

For the sake of the argument, let's say they are true to their word and actually pay out their $50 of TF2 gear. It is a gambling website. Users are placing their gear into a pool and one of them is being "randomly" chosen to win all of the items (minus the website's 8% commission as stated in their FAQ). So let's say your friends see the website and join in on the fun. There is no guarantee of winning. Your friends start losing items, maybe they lose them all in hopes of recouping their losses. And where do you think your $50 worth of items are going to come from?

That's right. They are going to pay you in the items that your friends lost. Maybe your friends are smart enough not to play. The items are still coming from someone else, if not through losses then at least through the website's "commission". This person is getting items for free from somewhere and you're certainly not the only person they have promised to give $50/wk worth.

And just how are the items managed for the website? Steam inventory always stays within a Steam account. There is no way to transfer items outside of Steam. In order to play the website's roulette, users are expected to "deposit" items with the website. Well, how exactly is that done? Through a Steam trade between two users' accounts. The other account could be name "WEBSITE DEPOSIT" or whatever, it is still just a user account.

And now all those items are 100% owned by that user and they never even had to set up a fake Steam log in, never had to scare anyone into thinking they are being reported to Support for fake items, or scam items, or whatever the recent scam is. People *willingly* handing over their precious TF2 items to a stranger.

The whole idea of the website is a scam. They only need to appear legit long enough to build enough of an inventory to have made it worth the effort. Then they pull the plug and screw everyone.

Or, there is nothing to prevent the website owner from running a second, or third, or fourth, etc, account and appear as a normal user betting their own inventory. Then they tweak their website so that their alternate accounts are favored more often than the normal users. Suddenly the "random" winner isn't as random as it is supposed to be. Now they can say that those items were lost through "legitimate" gameplay on the website.

Do yourself and everyone a favor and do not entertain these scammers. I know having extra TF2 stuff might seem like a great thing to have. It's really not. You'll realize it better when you're older. Trust me.

[bigfatone]

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[bigfatone]

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[Muppet among Puppets]

It was an introducing you into a scam, and then scamming you and also stealing your account.

The intro line was enough to stay away for anyone with common sense.
No need to explain the rest.

[Citrus]

i fell for the scam and it amkes me feel like i want to just stop playing any games ever

[sailents]

yeah, its a scam website, pretty obvious, the dude approached me as well. the best thing one can do is report the guy.