Scamming by "Desinging a logo or a friend's university esport team"

[Bay Harbor Yapper]

Hello there,
I'm keep being added by the people that are trying to convince me to vote for their logos in some competition. I'n almost certain that it is a scam since there was 2 different guys telling me to vote for their logos where logos were literally the same so yeah. Second thing is the link they're sending you (I had to remove the link so I just left some of it below)

gg gamechampdigest com

I'm obviously not entering the sites without checking them before. Ofcourse this website as I checked is making you log in via Steam but besides that as I've checked on a ScamAdviser, results show that it is not really a safe website since it was established not long ago so probably the website shuts down and then is using another IP.

https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/gg.gamechampdigest.com?url=%2Fhome%2Fteams

Please let me know if you've had similar expirence, if so always report that kind of users because they're a threat to the Steam community.

[Haruspex]

Good instincts. It's absolutely a scam, and a quick search on these forums will reveal lots of similar ones.

The real question is why do you accept randoms who add you?

[Lilim]

Originally posted by v0iDen:

Second thing is the link they're sending you (I'm copying it right below)

Please remove that link.

Never share phishing links on the forum.

Originally posted by v0iDen:

Hello there,
I'm keep being added by the people that are trying to convince me to vote for their logos in some competition.

There is even an official support page about this scam.

Scam: Vote for My Team

[Soma]

I received something similar a few minutes ago, I immediately investigated and knew it was a scam attempt.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Decade old scam.

[Welbert Asker]

remove phishing links. even posted in good faith it's a one way ticket to permaban

[Teksura]

Just to explain. If you go to that site and click the login button, here are the blatant signs.

It says "log in with Steam" but never actually even checks with Steam. If you are already logged in with Steam on your web browser, you shouldn't need to log in again. But because this isn't steam, it's asking for your login information anyway.

Notice the "pop up" it gives you isn't actually a pop up. It's just a webpage element in their webpage, it can't be taken off the webpage, and you can't navigate to any other site on the web by using the fake address bar. It also always looks exactly the same regardless of your web browser, OS, or browser themes.


Basically, they're just giving you a form and saying "please enter your Steam login information here in our website, and people do this because they don't take the time to even look.

[Bay Harbor Yapper]

Originally posted by Haruspex:

Good instincts. It's absolutely a scam, and a quick search on these forums will reveal lots of similar ones.

The real question is why do you accept randoms who add you?

well I actually like to catch these kind of scams to report them so there will be eventually less of people like these

[Cathulhu]

Remove the link before a moderator does.

[LittlePRO]

Just got one of these scams sent to me. fairly new to me; haven't seen one of these and it's kind of scummy that they most likely use stolen artwork for this. sucks, but glad I found this to assure this was a scam.

[WanderingHero]

Got hit with this a week or so ago. Steam wtf why haven't you banned this guy?Is there anything I need to do? i warned the people on my contacts and my steam wallet is empty

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by WanderingHero:

Got hit with this a week or so ago. Steam wtf why haven't you banned this guy?Is there anything I need to do? i warned the people on my contacts and my steam wallet is empty

If your wallet is empty then your account has been hijacked. Secure it and your device immediately if you haven't done so already:-

Scan for Malware/virus https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/
Deauthorize all devices https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
Change your Account password on a secure device, mobile phone for example.
Generate new back up codes https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
Revoke the API key https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey

Scammers use hijacked accounts to peddle phishing links so not many get banned. Yours probably sent out these links and you wouldn't want your account banned because of it..

[WanderingHero]

I didn't have money in my walltet thankfully and I checked my purchase history and its fine. But I did notice a sign in from Russia

[Emilio]

Originally posted by WanderingHero:

I didn't have money in my walltet thankfully and I checked my purchase history and its fine. But I did notice a sign in from Russia

Follow all the steps J4MESOX4D gave you to make sure your account is secure.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by WanderingHero:

Got hit with this a week or so ago. Steam wtf why haven't you banned this guy?Is there anything I need to do? i warned the people on my contacts and my steam wallet is empty

The people reposting this are almost always users who have had their accounts hijacked. Scammers don't use their own accounts, they use the accounts of the victim to spread the message and thus its whack a mole as you wouldn't want your account permanently banned because you got phished.