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Grant? Apr 30, 2015 @ 7:59pm
$50 Steam Card Scam Warning
there is a virus that says if you send a link to 25 people you get a 50 dollar steam gift card. it will then ask you to do a survey and then the virus opens. it looks real but is not in anyway Steam. it will ask you to log in and will take your account.
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supertrooper225 Apr 30, 2015 @ 7:59pm 
Sounds like an ancient scheme. Nothing is ever free.
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Grant? Apr 30, 2015 @ 8:00pm 
yeah, it is a shame that things like this happen

Originally posted by supertrooper225:
Sounds like an ancient scheme. Nothing is ever free.
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supertrooper225 Apr 30, 2015 @ 8:03pm 
That is my rule. If it is too good to be true...it is. Don't mess with it.
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Locky Apr 30, 2015 @ 9:20pm 
If you're under 30 and still fall for that, you need to get off the Internet, for your benefit and ours. If a link needs to be reposted, its a scam. If it requires more than 10 people, its a scam. If you need to fill out a survey, its automatically a scam.
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Grant? Apr 30, 2015 @ 9:37pm 
Originally posted by Locky:
If you're under 30 and still fall for that, you need to get off the Internet, for your benefit and ours. If a link needs to be reposted, its a scam. If it requires more than 10 people, its a scam. If you need to fill out a survey, its automatically a scam.
i am aware of that but i assure you i was not the person this affected, i've seen it around and can tell from what others have said, and let's be honest there is a vast amount of people under the age of even 10 that use steam, facebook, and other stuff like that. i don't want that to happen to them and i only mean to spread awareness of the scam as it probably has fooled 10 year olds already. just trying to help.
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Black Blade Apr 30, 2015 @ 9:47pm 
Originally posted by Turtl3:
i am aware of that but i assure you i was not the person this affected, i've seen it around and can tell from what others have said, and let's be honest there is a vast amount of people under the age of even 10 that use steam, facebook, and other stuff like that. i don't want that to happen to them and i only mean to spread awareness of the scam as it probably has fooled 10 year olds already. just trying to help.
Well the problem is, there are treads like these every second day (use to be ever day 3 times, so i assume it happens less :D:)
And i assume you have not read the forums before right?
as that is the thing, most of the users that fall for these, are users that did not read in places like these

So posting here is a little useless, if you want to pick up awareness, post to your friends, and ask them to pass it on to there friends and so on (can even go with the "if you do not pass these to 10 friends, they will pass you the scam (or demon, what ever strikes you)" or something :D:
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