Steam: Is this a wind up?

[point decay]

Just came out of an mp match of l4d, and was greeted by a so called steam modereator advising me that my acount was in use on two different pc's, and what was my password etc.. Of cource i didnt give any details.

so has anyone else had this?

 

[muggs]

no mate, sorry off tpic like buts whats the game like

 

[HeX]

Scam, they wouldn't ask for passwords.

 

[kmufc77]

i think there a lot of accounts being hacked at the moment on steam

 

[craptakular]

I had it via steam friends. Dunno how they could message me they werent on my friends list. Steam hack or summit?

 

[Hyper]

i think there a lot of accounts being hacked at the moment on steam

I thought this had always been the case

 

[point decay]

cheers, just wondered as i dont usually play steam games online.

 

[neon.uk]

yeah if you chat to someone, it always says at the top "Never tell your password to anyone." always follow that

 

[MikeHunt79]

yeah if you chat to someone, it always says at the top "Never tell your password to anyone." always follow that

Yep, it's not rocket surgery you know!

 

[m4cc45]

i think there a lot of accounts being hacked at the moment on steam

I don't class this as hacking. I bet 99% of so called hacks are just people asking people for passwords or phishing e-mails or just users being stupid.

If in any doubt just say 'if you're a so called mod then you should be able to find this out'.



M.

 

[Tummy]

I didn't think people that worked for Steam would ever need your password ? and besides it says never to give it out...

 

[point decay]

I asked the question to find out if this was a common occurance, I never gave my password, but was curious as too whether this happened a lot..

 

[Duke]

I had one sometime back. I wonder how many fall for it :/

 

[Streeteh]

I had that once, i would tell you what i said my password was but swearing isn't allowed on this forum

I wonder if he actually tried using it...

 

[Snograt]

Rule number one of the internets: never give your password to anyone ever.

Well, maybe rule number two - number one is "actually, she's a forty-five year old trucker called Dave."

 

[MooMoo444]

No moderator would ever ask for your password. They have tools to check themselves, if they are legit.

 

[CrowK]

Rule number one of the internets: never give your password to anyone ever.

Well, maybe rule number two - number one is "actually, she's a forty-five year old trucker called Dave."

"The Internet:

Where men are men,
women are men,
and the children are FBI agents"

 

[Montegue]

A mod is just for the steam forums and that's it! Nothing more than a lacky for their forum.
Valve employees never contact any users out of the blue and certainly not via the chat window, maybe and it's a huge maybe if it's regarding a false ban or account theft via email, 99.9% of the time they just don't bother.

 

[snowdog]

If in any doubt just say 'if you're a so called mod then you should be able to find this out'.
M.

Or say:

My password is: '' ''swearies, family insults, abuse'' ''

.

Nobody from Valve will ever ask for your passy in a chat window, in a mail and on any site, make sure that the only place where you enter your passy is a site you have opened yourself from http://store.steampowered.com/ or whatever or in the actual steam app itself.

 

[FrenchTart]

That seems a little OTT tbh snowdog.