Steam Scam Uncovered

[Lilani]

Just now, one of my friends on Steam sent me a link, told me to hurry because only 24 games would be gifted to that account, and left.

It looks like Steam, and it smells like Steam, but the URL is definitely through Steam. Every other legitimate Steam site is at steampowered.com, but not this one. So personally, I am not putting my steam ID, email, or password anywhere near that site, and I hope you do the same.

So this is a warning, I guess--don't let people fall for this scam. Thank you, and take care~

 

[XMark]

Yep, definite scam. It's possible that your friend didn't actually send it too. Maybe his email account was compromised and used by the scammer to send out the link.

I'm thinking that a bunch of people should just enter real-looking fake information en masse to annoy the people running it.

I'm wondering, where can you report phishing pages like that?

 

[Squidbulb]

This one's fairly obvious. The address is completely different and the grammar is a bit odd.

 

[distortedreality]

Report site to Steam, report your friend for spreading it, and report yourself for spreading it on a games forum.

 

[Lilani]

Report site to Steam, report your friend for spreading it, and report yourself for spreading it on a games forum.

Will do, and will delete the link from the OP, heh.

 

[hoboman29]

Wouldn't trust a message like that unless it's signed by the whole Valve board of directors first.

 

[Wolfram23]

This type of thing happens a lot for many games/services. For example I get spam asking me to go to some site, let's say blizzard.login.com. That means the site is actually login.com, not blizzard.com. It's pretty tricky but always look at the web address, the last bit before the .com is important (also most sites don't use the name.name.com feature except maybe ign)

 

[dyre]

Yeah, a friend emailed me a "DOTA 2 beta code" awhile ago, but these scams are pretty easy to see through these days. Just a sentence and a shady link. I told him about it; turns out his email was compromised.