\o/ steam scam!

[Stormy]

Staff-Admin Hello, Steam is promoting a new style of steam if you want to read it and really try, you can customize your steam as you like: snip
Stormy: Hi
Staff-Admin Hello, What+
Stormy: How are you.
Staff-Admin nice.
Stormy: I am a steam admin, there is a scam currently going on accross steam and I am trying to collet usernames and passwords to try and avoid future scams.
Staff-Admin: Ok
Staff-Admin: :Ñ
Staff-Admin is now Offline.

But yea the website is rather nuts... ennui snip snip snip Just asks for a username and password which I guess gets thown on a database or somthing. These bastards are getting smart.

 

[Stormy]

meh link dosnt work... but yea it just had a box for username and a box for password to fill in.

 

[Murray]

I hope they don't ask me. I can never turn down a scam.

 

[VirusType2]

Well, they didn't even spell community right in the website name. Also, it comes across so blatant.

"Just give me your credit card number, and I'll make sure it's safe for you.."

 

[Tyguy]

"We will never ask you for your user name and password, except right now"

 

[Captain M4d]

That one is still happening? I was dumb enough to try it more than half a year ago, and they ended up stealing my Gmail account. Thankfully I was able to recover everything and no damage was done.

 

[Apocalypse89]

These bastards are getting smart.

Phishing has been around for years now...it's just that it's still effective on the millions of casual internet users who don't know about it.

 

[jet_porkins]

Have you seen the one that says, "Google is hiring stay-at-home people just like YOU! These details are as seen on: (then they list a whole bunch of major news broadcasters). Make $4,000 a month working for Google right at home!"

 

[Vegeta897]

Just asks for a username and password which I guess gets thown on a database or somthing. These bastards are getting smart.

Ok, what?

This is the exact same thing they've been doing since forever. What do you mean "getting smart"?

 

[jet_porkins]

Perhaps he was referring to the fact that they are convincingly targeting Steam users instead of low-profile "make cash every month for doing almost nothing" ads. Without being able to see the site, it's hard to see how convincing they really are.

 

[Vegeta897]

Like I said. Nothing new.

 

[VirusType2]

Have you seen the one that says, "Google is hiring stay-at-home people just like YOU! These details are as seen on: (then they list a whole bunch of major news broadcasters). Make $4,000 a month working for Google right at home!"

Now that I have warned you about this Google jobs scam, please take a look here at how I make money online. I have a real check proof and video that are my checks that I really got paid.

Hmmm...

 

[Apocalypse89]

Perhaps he was referring to the fact that they are convincingly targeting Steam users instead of low-profile "make cash every month for doing almost nothing" ads. Without being able to see the site, it's hard to see how convincing they really are.

That's exactly what Phishing is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

A phishing technique was described in detail in 1987

 

[Stormy]

Maybe its not new, but seems i have been lucky to to have seen it untill now. If it stops one person getting buggered then it was worth the thread.

 

[Ennui]

I get phish attempts on I would say a weekly basis because my steam account is quite attractive to them. That's a pretty weak one. Obviously I troll the shit out of them every time but the ones from the past year or two where they redirect you to a convincing copy of the steam site on some other server and get you to enter your password is tricky.

 

[YROC]

This stuff happens over Xbox Live aswell. "Want 1600 free MS Points?!?!?! Visit www.lamenamehere.[tk]"

Then you end up putting in your gamertag and password which is recorded. Then, they end up changing password, using credit card, etc.

Happened to my best friend. Once they get an account, they send the message to all of that person's friends to try to attract more ignorant fools. They designed the website to look similar to the xbox homepage, but it's lacking so hard. Like, firstly, it's .[tk] and secondly, it doesn't have that official "MS" thing on the left of the address bar.

 

[PJ]

I have it very regularly too, since I have a lot of games on my account.

I actually asked one of them, why do they do it, and to my surprise they responded seriously, and said 'I need games' and 'I have no money'. They went offline when I asked 'How do you think the account owners feel when their account gets hacked?'

Obviously the sort of answer you would expect.