Malware Spreading via Steam Chats, Gains Access to Inventory

[DoPo]

and knows me from "the school." (Elementary? Middle school? High school? College? No? Just "the school"?)

In all fairness, it's a bog standard phishing line. Usually used in email because older people 1. may not remember the name or do remember it (e.g., "Hey, I'm Nick") but it's been a long time 2. are more likely to click on stuff by "friends". It provides an OK cover. On Steam, the "school" angle works rather well, since a lot of Steam users would be students - in any of those.

However, then again

I'm sorry, I know it's obvious to everyone here that a message like this could only be a scam, I'm just shocked that there are people out there who would actually fall for a trap so humorously easy to spot.

Yeah, I agree it's easy to spot. But I don't agree that it's easy to spot for everybody. Users are morons, that's the first rule of dealing with them. Any user. For anything tech related.

 

[Hutzpah Chicken]

And here I thought everyone just really wanted my Strange Sydney Sleeper...

I specifically specify that people do not add me to trade, likewise, I don't accept friend requests from random people unless I played an exceptional round of CS:GO with them or some Mann Vs. Machine.

Might need to change that...

 

[Piorn]

SPACE DAMMIT, I just got one of those and absent-mindedly clicked on it, but closed it immediately before it even fully opened the tab in my browser.
Currently scanning my PC, but I don't think anything downloaded.