New Type Of Scam. (Give It a read) A reason no one talks about

[KRATOS]

It happened with me and I made discussion post about it.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/3834297685600290191/

The way I got scammed wasn't by using my API key.
I downloaded pirated software from long trusted cracker and it was the reason why it happened.

In my case it was Hogwarts Legacy (EMPRESS CRACK) YES!! empress, that homophobic person who is kinda trusted and was recently banned from reddit

It had a virus which put malware in my browser (CHROME). If your steam was logged in there then that's how they created sell orders.

You wouldn't be suspicious of crack cause in info crackers always ask you to turn your firewall off cause how the crack works and drm.

Later I use Malwarebytes to clean my system. And even Hard Reset my system.

My other accounts must also be hijacked like my genshin acc was and twitter too
they even tried hijacking my facebook and play ads on it.

I've stopped piracy since then and now buy game from steam.
Be safe and trade responsibly

Cant fking trust anybody.
Hope this helps.

[Good Night Owl]

Originally posted by craigsters:

Originally posted by zero.hiza:

because I can't find Fable 2 or Fable 3 anywhere on the internet?. Microsoft tells me to look on Steam where there is nothing.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/288470/Fable_Anniversary/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/204030/Fable__The_Lost_Chapters/

are you sure it wasn't re-packed under another name like Anniversary or re-mastered?

Fable 2 and 3 never got remastered, and never left the Xbox 360.

Correction: Apparently Fable 2 *was* on PC, but was taken down. I forget the reason why, but probably due to Lionhead studios closing.

[Kamiyama]

It could have been the crack
It could have been the website you downloaded the crack from.
You could have clicked the wrong button and downloaded the wrong thing
You could have not unchecked a box and downloaded something extra
You might be using a P2P downloader like limewire

I've seen machines infected by P2P networks. It opens up the door to all the bad parts of the internet and invites in all the viruses. All of them. Thousands of detections.

The hopeless people who have those machines always:
1. never have a windows installation disc to do a re-install
2. never have an activation key for windows
3. never want to do a reinstall. They refuse to consider thier machine permanently contaminated. Personally even after multiple virus scans I would never trust it again
4. always have their browser and email set up for auto sign in so they never type in their passwords and never remember them
5. even when I offer to do a backup, they have no clue what they want or need to back up and always blame me for lost data

As a result, I stopped helping people outside of work. It's not worth it.

[Good Night Owl]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

It could have been the crack
It could have been the website you downloaded the crack from.
You could have clicked the wrong button and downloaded the wrong thing
You could have not unchecked a box and downloaded something extra
You might be using a P2P downloader like limewire

I've seen machines infected by P2P networks. It opens up the door to all the bad parts of the internet and invites in all the viruses. All of them. Thousands of detections.

The hopeless people who have those machines always:
1. never have a windows installation disc to do a re-install
2. never have an activation key for windows
3. never want to do a reinstall. They refuse to consider thier machine permanently contaminated. Personally even after multiple virus scans I would never trust it again
4. always have their browser and email set up for auto sign in so they never type in their passwords and never remember them
5. even when I offer to do a backup, they have no clue what they want or need to back up and always blame me for lost data

As a result, I stopped helping people outside of work. It's not worth it.

Hehe! I've stopped saving login info. I stopped at some point last year because it's becoming more and more of a security risk, and is just a real bad habit. My cookies are also regularly cleared for this same reason.

I'm proud of my change, and others should stop doing it as well. It's a bad habit, but one that is hard to let go of.

[Tristin]

Nothing new. Moving on.

[Azza ☠]

Yes, the Empress "EMP.dll" crack is a virus, commonly put with ripped games of Harry Potter, etc.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0113bddb8c8fe0f2efcd447fe491ed1b61bfa32e17e460c170b8ac959636f2f9

It uses obfuscation techniques to try bypass detection and drops a hijack web-browser virus, as well as an openSSH client backdoor:
https://www.filescan.io/reports/0113bddb8c8fe0f2efcd447fe491ed1b61bfa32e17e460c170b8ac959636f2f9/16e45304-88d7-4051-ab8c-eaafeabe8be8/overview

You claim that Empress was homophobic? Interesting, because she herself was LGBTQ, a full on lesbian. Located from Russia. She even had her own cult, until having a falling out with another FitGirl. Yet FitGirl is a male. Empress hated males since FitGirl leeched and even doxxed her.

The cracker Empress had actually been arrested by the police, then left the scene back in 2021 and blames a repacker for the injection of malware into her cracks.

I'm an ex-hacker myself who now works in IT Security.

You risk quite a bit with cracked software, specially if it's the Operating System and/or Anti-virus software (as 90% of those are infected hot spots). Most viruses don't cause damage these days but rather try to remain quite stealth, leech your account passwords, crypto-wallets and enter your PC into a botnet or as a crypto-miner. Expensive for both your hardware and depending what's in your accounts. Be safe.

"Crackonosh" cryptocurrency-mining malware have infected more than 200000 PCs since 2018. It spreads via cracked software too. That one waits, until your 7th or 10th reboot before kicking in, restarting your PC into safe mode and disabling all your security, plus window updates. Afterwards, it uses your CPU and GPU to mine away Monero. If you aren't getting any Window's security updates and/or see performance drops but increased usage / heat / noise levels, be warned.

Support the game developers you enjoy, you can't go wrong with that.

[Masque]

LOL maybe stop stealing games then. "New" scam, are you kidding me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJF-wVW1F2o

[TRethehedgehog]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[TRethehedgehog]

Originally posted by zero.hiza:

Originally posted by Sly Succubus:

I mean this is so true, even the fable of Robinhood is largely unknown to the part that the person's job is in his name.

Its a robber, in a hooded cloak.

And he never gave to the poor, he stole from the rich but never stole from the poor because the poor didn't have anything for him to steal, so ya its like the statement of "A good highwayman"

because I can't find Fable 2 or Fable 3 anywhere on the internet?. Microsoft tells me to look on Steam where there is nothing.

Fable 2 was never on pc

Although you’re kind of in the right for 3, as that was delisted because of that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ drm that wasn’t working

The sad part is I know people who like that drm…

[Tim]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.