Can you get hacked through trading, or sending a steam offer?

[bi plop]

Hello guys.

I'm just curious. I just had a veeeeeeeeeeery long trade with a player earlier, and I think the trade went on for a good 5~10mins. Each time I try to cancel the trade, he tries to stop me by saying reasons... so it made me think he must be stalling time to do something, and me being paranoid, that something must be to hack me..

Also after I cancelled the trade, he told me to send a steam offer, so I did, and again he didn't even accept it. So after 5mins, I cancelled the offer.

Is this possible? Or am I just so paranoid?

Thanks

[Hextravert]

This is not possible. You needn't worry.

You can tell him that: if he still wants to trade, he can send you a Trade Offer instead.

[bi plop]

Okay thanks! I guess my paranoia got the best of me. LOL

[ReBoot]

Hacking in movies has pretty much zero resemblance to reality.

[Tobiasras]

u r paranoid:D

[Muppet among Puppets]

Allways recheck a trade before agreeing finally

[Kesac]

It's unlikely that he can gain access to your account, but there is a possible scam by doing this.

The scam is he'll make a last second change to the trade, then quickly accept, hoping you won't notice his items changing when you do the final acceptance.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Kesac:

The scam is he'll make a last second change to the trade, then quickly accept, hoping you won't notice his items changing when you do the final acceptance.

Shouldn't that clear your checkbox too?

[ReBoot]

It does. But some people are too lazy and just check their own check box again.

[bi plop]

Thanks guys! As they say, better sure than sorry :D

[Mono]

No you can't.
Just always double check the trade

[76561198954227207]

Little late to the party but you can never be too carful I got my account stolen last night by clicking on a trade link and trying to login. I'm not even sure if I can get my account back all the login information and account details have been changed already.

[Gadzooks]

Sorry for yet another necro. just had this happen to me today but i dont touch chat trade offers (i know about the fake sites/etc) ill only check the steam profile trade offers.

ive been trading with this user for a few times n didnt think much to it till recently last night about asking a friend about adding to discuss. wich now i realised that they were a scammer. (checked their last trade post on the official game on disc and its a 2month old post mind you)

getting to the point. i declined the offer because steam was being funky. i sent them a trade offer only that after the trade was accepted the steam warnings poped up saying suspicious trade, i did report the user after finding out that they were flagged for scamming and realised their actions were sketchy.

that being said i cant join the game servers since that trade but all the others work fine - could be a coincidence of it being steam but idk..

Now having to realise i traded with a scammer im all rilled up going oh ♥♥♥♥.. and now im all paranoid. but i would really appreciate if i also could get an answer to - am i just paranoid or im at risk - 1st time encountering a scam throughout my exp of trading..

[Muppet among Puppets]

If you use steam trading as its intended to be used, dont log into links ever,
trading is just trading.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by shodopan05:

Little late to the party but you can never be too carful I got my account stolen last night by clicking on a trade link and trying to login. I'm not even sure if I can get my account back all the login information and account details have been changed already.

account name cannot be changed, so use that.
and you were logging in into a fake Steam website, which can be avoided by common sense.

[KalGimpa]

Originally posted by vaddiNayr:

Hello guys.

I'm just curious. I just had a veeeeeeeeeeery long trade with a player earlier, and I think the trade went on for a good 5~10mins. Each time I try to cancel the trade, he tries to stop me by saying reasons... so it made me think he must be stalling time to do something, and me being paranoid, that something must be to hack me..

Also after I cancelled the trade, he told me to send a steam offer, so I did, and again he didn't even accept it. So after 5mins, I cancelled the offer.

Is this possible? Or am I just so paranoid?

Thanks

i ususally say that, just because i am paranoid does not mean that they are not after me

better to be on the paranoid side than the i got scammed side