Randon Phiser Friend Requests?

[bird]

Has anyone else been getting random requests from various scammers and phisers? I've had a huge influx of them lately.

[76561197970557713]

Yeah, I got one the other day from BigBoss106606 or something like that. I didn't realize it was a scammer. They sent me 4 messages, one every couple of hours while I was away, that basically just asked if me to click a link to trade them. I promptly removed them from my friends list.

[✨Hot Soup✨]

the scammers have bots that scrape trade sites like csgo lounge, and tf2outpost.
some bots even scrape steam community.

never click on a link, the offers are always fake, and bring you to a web page that injects a script to take control of your inventory.

[bird]

What's strange is that I've always been getting these requests, but never so much until now. I've had at least 5 just today.

[Mattio]

Most probably due to playing TF2 and CSGO as those games have a lot of valuable items, this makes targetting those players most valuable for phishers.

Best to ignore any friend requests of those you don't know or have no prior contact with.

[Fortuna]

Only check:
-Level 0
-Only had 1 game random with 3-10 hours
-Always trying trade TF2/CS:GO/DOTA2 items with a fake link with "friend objects"
-The inventory always is empty or with 0 objects




And the easy:

IGNORE

[Ultrakirb]

I got at least like 10 today
its getting pretty annoying

[Rendan]

I got a couple yesterday. It's pretty obvious when they have a 0 level and a private profile.