BEWARE OF NEW TRADE SCAM

[dommymommyTTV]

I have recently been scammed by some sort of trade link that seems to bypass the steam authentication or changes the trade items without your knowledge. It looks like this *removed* . What happened was I clicked the linked and it directed me to a trade link through my chrome browser. I put in a bunch of items I did not want and took the item I wanted from his inventory and offered the trade. In the morning I saw that the trade had been accepted. Little to my knowledge the trade had been edited somehow to include several of my high value items. How this happened I do knot know but just be careful as steam support is absolutely useless.

EDIT: it appears that it links to a trade screen via your browser gets you to log in and uses a key logger. The key logger takes your login and steam guard code and quickly logs in to change trades.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

That link on your profile only goes to that accounts profile.

[zongivila]

Do you have steam guard?

[Zefar]

Without SteamGuard or Mobile Authentication on a trade will take several days.

With Mobile authentication you need to confirm it for it to be traded to the other person.

Link scams with like "Hey click this link" is the oldest type of scam in the book in internet history. But that link is just a normal profile link.

So explain what more you did.

[zongivila]

Originally posted by Zefar:

Without SteamGuard or Mobile Authentication on a trade will take several days.

With Mobile authentication you need to confirm it for it to be traded to the other person.

Link scams with like "Hey click this link" is the oldest type of scam in the book in internet history. But that link is just a normal profile link.

So explain what more you did.

Made topic about it on one of my groups http://steamcommunity.com/groups/scncrew/discussions/0/1693785035818517104/
You click on that main account,there is "Send trade offer" on profile description once you click it,it will ask you to log in and it's some kind of key logger

[dommymommyTTV]

zongivila has the exact same guy and thats the exact scam. Its actually sad how little steam provides support on this stuff as they get their users to do the work for them.

[cinedine]

You logged in a phishing site. Not Steam's fault. As a matter of fact, if you followed the link by clicking on the Steam profile, you should have seen a warning that you are about to leave Valve's domains and how to identify official Steam sites.

[Zefar]

Originally posted by zongivila:

Made topic about it on one of my groups http://steamcommunity.com/groups/scncrew/discussions/0/1693785035818517104/
You click on that main account,there is "Send trade offer" on profile description once you click it,it will ask you to log in and it's some kind of key logger

How do people fall for the oldest scam available? It is so easy to spot and so easy to avoid.

Originally posted by -=k00n_krush3r69=-:

zongivila has the exact same guy and thats the exact scam. Its actually sad how little steam provides support on this stuff as they get their users to do the work for them.

For me it's more sad that people fall for these obvious scams. Do you give out creditcard information to someone who calls your number and claims to be from the bank? I'm guessing not.

Valve have their reasons for not giving back items for these cases. I'm guessing it's because people used it to their advantage and that it was far too much work to reverse all the trades being made with the items.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Zefar:

For me it's more sad that people fall for these obvious scams. Do you give out creditcard information to someone who calls your number and claims to be from the bank? I'm guessing not.

And surprisingly enough people give away their SSN to some "insurane" or "health care" organisation via phone. Especially US veterans are currently targeted by those scammers. And "veteran" doesn't mean 60+.

[dommymommyTTV]

Originally posted by Zefar:

For me it's more sad that people fall for these obvious scams. Do you give out creditcard information to someone who calls your number and claims to be from the bank? I'm guessing not.

Valve have their reasons for not giving back items for these cases. I'm guessing it's because people used it to their advantage and that it was far too much work to reverse all the trades being made with the items.

Yes people were exploitiong the return system but there are heaps of users that lose large amounts of items to scams and hacks. It's a mockery of justice to just have those users lose gifts from friends and possibly even games that just happened to be in trade inventories. No I dont give out my card information. Valve puts trust into their two factor authentication system and for it to have such an easy work around means it has to be fixed somehow. This is no obvious scam like a gifting or paypal scam. They have a website that takes your information that has a system of bots to scan and change trades. How is that simple? Not every user is going to know every trick in the book and avoid every scam or hack and those users should have their items returned.

[Heeby-Jeeby]

So you are saying after you checked over the trade in your phone and saw that all the items are exactly what you wanted and, finally, authorized the trade, the scammer somehow accessed Steam's servers and completely changed the trade to include more items?

[dommymommyTTV]

Originally posted by Heeby-Jeeby:

So you are saying after you checked over the trade in your phone and saw that all the items are exactly what you wanted and, finally, authorized the trade, the scammer somehow accessed Steam's servers and completely changed the trade to include more items?

Sorry for the poor description. If you look zongivila's post he says that they use a key logger to use yout account. Which makes alot of sense. If a bot uses your information to log in within the time it takes before the steam guard code deactivates it cancels the trade you offered and makes a new one that includes some of your valuable items. And since the app on your phone doesnt display the items that are in the trade its easy to fall for the trick.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by -=k00n_krush3r69=-:

And since the app on your phone doesnt display the items that are in the trade its easy to fall for the trick.

the app does display the contents of a trade.

[dommymommyTTV]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by -=k00n_krush3r69=-:

And since the app on your phone doesnt display the items that are in the trade its easy to fall for the trick.

the app does display the contents of a trade.

My apologies it does. But the trick is hard to pick up. By the time it takes for you to pick up your phone, unlock it and go into the steam app the bot could of already sent you the new trade. And since he asks for multiple low teir items it usualy looks like this https://imgur.com/uj9omXv people wont see higher teir items that might be down the screen and just accept the trade as they think its the one they initialy offered.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Not a new scam. But I guess it's good to know it's being used again.

[airmikee99]

Sucks you got burned, but malicious links are one of the oldest scams on the internet, Firefox even tried to warn you in one of the images you posted, yet you did it anyway. There's no reason you need to click on anything to any website to do a Steam trade, you can do it all inside Steam without going anywhere else because going anywhere else is inviting being scammed.