new scam going around

[je t'ai tue mon ami]

how do people actually fall for this lol its so obvious

[Grateful]

Same scam different scammer, Don't be stupid kids gambling/trading via 3rd party sites is just stupid.

[roux]

this has been around since the csgolounge days in 2013... Back then, links wouldn't get turned into [LINK REMOVED] too. If you get caught at this point you deserve it ;/

[Poobah]

this has been around since the csgolounge days in 2013... Back then, links wouldn't get turned into [LINK REMOVED] too. If you get caught at this point you deserve it ;/

 

I agree! If you've never been exposed to malicious links like this until now, then it is your fault and you deserve to have your Steam account hijacked!

[All Ts]

It seems redundant to say this but people are constantly cycling in and out as new people get into gaming. If someone is sending you a link without any context, just don't click it- no one is going to ever send you 5 messages stacked on eachother, no personal "hey man" or anything beforehand, just straight up gunning for you to go to a website. Even if someone you know does send you a link be suspicious of it, I've seen people get their computer fucked real bad by someone they trusted over the Internet, this is mainly why scams like this work so well in the first place.

 

A phishing link is meant to bait you into clicking a link and most of the time tries to trick you into entering your username and password. These websites make their shit look pretty official sometimes, even copying Steam's login page to a perfection in some instances and using deceiving URL's similar to the one you thought you were visiting. Another thing, even if you just click on the link out of curiosity in the past/present there has been many virus' which will steal your shit by abusing things like an outdated Java- so you wouldn't even have to enter any information. These virus' range from keyloggers which record your keystrokes to RAT's which can access your stored passwords, look through your webcam, look at your screen, use your computer on a botnet etc.. In the event that your Steam account gets stolen change ALL of your passwords and run an AV scan, if your accounts keep getting fucked with change your passwords on a separate device as you might have something your AV can't pickup, make sure to secure your main email account if anything without logging into it on your main PC (use a phone) as if they get that you can kiss some a lot of shit goodbye unless a support team helps you out. If you don't get a virus off your computer through AV honest to god just reformat everything with your windows disk and as I said change your passwords on a separate device. It's important to make people people more educated on shit like this, will stop it from spreading throughout our community and wreaking havoc.

[Cutesicle]

I see a @Polarzz on there too:thinking:

 

i think he was asking for sub but rly scaming 2018 um i guess there will always be people who fall for this

[Marc griffin]

Yeah I got that to it was crazy