Be Wary of Steam Abusers

Mr. Anderson · 30 Jan 2010 at 23:38

Locke said:
Some idiot trying to get e-mail and password so they recover a potentially old Steam account.

Most likely because their old account was banned and they were quite hurt by the fact that they got caught cheating?

That is comepletly NOT what it is.

Curunen · 30 Jan 2010 at 23:40

albert said:
.... i only use STEAM to play games .... i never join groups or chat .......

+1
I only use it for the convenience of download, backup, drm.

BobbyBBB · 31 Jan 2010 at 01:02

Mr. Anderson said:
clicking a link does nothing though???

lol

Mr. Anderson · 31 Jan 2010 at 02:04

BobbyBBB said:
lol

what can a website do then?

Tefal · 31 Jan 2010 at 02:11

Locke said:
Some idiot trying to get e-mail and password so they recover a potentially old Steam account.

Most likely because their old account was banned and they were quite hurt by the fact that they got caught cheating?

No they want your login details so they can steal your account and sell it quickly before steam takes it back.

Tefal · 31 Jan 2010 at 02:13

petemyster said:
Anyone who falls for these links, especially a URL with .tk or .t35 is a very very greedy soul.

Fixed that for you

Like all scams they offer free games/money and rely on people being blinded by greed.

~>Dg<~ · 31 Jan 2010 at 03:09

petemyster said:
Anyone who falls for these links, especially a URL with .tk or .t35 is a very very trusting soul. A guy from another forum got his account stolen from one of these, cause he was stupid enough to fill it out in the off chance it was real. What idiots

and what if a young kiddy uses steam and gets it ?

they may not be as wise to the world as yourself

richiesimms · 31 Jan 2010 at 11:48

I read another thread where if you verify your email with steam you can not be hacked even if you were stupid enough to give your password.

orderoftheflame · 31 Jan 2010 at 12:00

~>Dg<~ said:
and what if a young kiddy uses steam and gets it ?

Young kiddy should know better than to talk to strangers!

Deadbeat · 31 Jan 2010 at 12:14

~>Dg<~ said:
and what if a young kiddy uses steam and gets it ?

they may not be as wise to the world as yourself

They will be after they get scammed.

AMG · 31 Jan 2010 at 13:02

Oh dear.... idoits

saying that I see a lot of that over msn too who wants to nick a msn account is beyond me, just includes the big fat block button, I m more than included to do that over steam oh and report abuse button too

QwaF · 31 Jan 2010 at 13:08

Mr. Anderson said:
what can a website do then?

Not much, unless there is some sort of vulnerability in the browser you are using that allows them to display code which gives them access beyond your browser.

Which is very rare, these sorts of bugs are usually patched within a day or two of discovery.

cplhardnut · 31 Jan 2010 at 13:31

I just block them end of story

warnea1984 · 31 Jan 2010 at 13:35

QwaF said:
Not much, unless there is some sort of vulnerability in the browser you are using that allows them to display code which gives them access beyond your browser.

Which is very rare, these sorts of bugs are usually patched within a day or two of discovery.

Or just some spyware or malware, then theirs the info from the log's including ip's, os, browser info, installed plugin's, isp information, referrer infomation, all they need to do is get a piece of code onto your machine and it could easily monitor steam activity or just a key logger, hell just a bit of javascript code to run client side, that could monitor the other tabs in the active browser session.

Mr. Anderson · 31 Jan 2010 at 13:46

Yeah, but none of that can happen without my authorization.

Moredhel · 31 Jan 2010 at 14:25

The site has been removed now anyway.

.Lethal · 31 Jan 2010 at 14:26

Slightly off topic but I am getting sick and tired of having Blizzard/WoW spam emails sent to 3 of my hotmail accounts on a near daily basis...

Its almost become the norm now, you log in, filter out the WoW scam emails and then check your email.

pieplough · 31 Jan 2010 at 14:33

Had this guy who was a member of the ocuk bad comp 2 group send me this link.

Im guessing the idea is you click link and try to login and then they gain access to your acc and change password? Reported the guy and blocked him. Should make it a private group as already suggested in this thread.

linktoinsanity · 31 Jan 2010 at 17:05

pieplough said:
Had this guy who was a member of the ocuk bad comp 2 group send me this link.

Im guessing the idea is you click link and try to login and then they gain access to your acc and change password? Reported the guy and blocked him. Should make it a private group as already suggested in this thread.

I got that too and told him to **** off.

Locke · 31 Jan 2010 at 20:09

Mr. Anderson said:
That is comepletly NOT what it is.

So you know what every scammer does? how interesting :rolleyes:

- they probably do a number of things with the account tbf.

Tefal said:
No they want your login details so they can steal your account and sell it quickly before steam takes it back.

Well it wont just be for that particular reason of course, I just stated one.