I don't know how effective it is, but something I've done on my steam account is also enable the steam family view, meaning if they manage to log in with the username and password, bypass the 2FA, they still need the PIN to bypass the family view before doing anything.
Steam account recovery - asking for a friend...
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Nice, didn’t know that but I’ll definitely be doing it now.
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BEANS forgot to send me a link to the free skin, please can someone forward me a link.
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Sounds like you got lucky on this one.
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Seems it happened a lot. It was from what appeared to be Shroud’s twitch stream. Actively advertising skins with banners on the stream, and the link I followed was posted by a Twitch ‘bot’ in the feed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/ere2zy/twitch_used_as_a_platform_for_a_steam_phishing/
Edit: link added
Another edit: Seems it’s an entirely fake stream. No idea how this works, but it definitely got me!
Yet another edit: Why am I publicly admitting to being so gullible, or at least being someone who doesn’t pay attention when they’re just bored and clicking around on tinterwebs??
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/ere2zy/twitch_used_as_a_platform_for_a_steam_phishing/
Edit: link added
Another edit: Seems it’s an entirely fake stream. No idea how this works, but it definitely got me!
Yet another edit: Why am I publicly admitting to being so gullible, or at least being someone who doesn’t pay attention when they’re just bored and clicking around on tinterwebs??
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