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JacketFosterTTV 14 Jan, 2020 @ 4:51pm
Potential scam: "Join my team/vote for my team, random person"
I don't know why, but I keep getting people asking me what my main is in TF2 and then asking if I want to join their team. I just got a message from someone recently that then wanted me to vote for their team. And guess what? They all keep sending me different links that all have the same preview image. EVERY SINGLE TIME. It always has DOTA 2, League of Legends, CS GO, Overwatch, and Hearthstone on it! And it always has the title of "YOUR LEADING COMPETITIVE GAMING PLATFORM" at the top. I've never went to any of their websites because I've just been assuming that it's scam, since they immediately stop messaging me after I call them out on it. Well, the specific account that is messaging me stops contacting me. I'm posting this because they are STILL contacting me. And they ALWAYS ask what my main is. Every. Time. It's always "whats your main" or, more specifically, "whats your tf2 main", and I'm pretty sure it's always in all lowercase with no punctuation. I swear, I just want to know if these people want to scam me or not or if I have been getting hounded by comp team scouters. I'd be kind of embarrassed if it turned out these people were legit and I was screaming at them to leave me alone.
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Cheezus Crisp 14 Jan, 2020 @ 4:54pm 
It's a phishing scam. I'd suggest you block and remove them. They're likely automated messages to try to get your log-in details.
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Zekiran 14 Jan, 2020 @ 6:02pm 
Those trade and raffle groups you're in are likely where they're finding you.
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JacketFosterTTV 18 Jan, 2020 @ 11:02am 
Originally posted by Zekiran:
Those trade and raffle groups you're in are likely where they're finding you.
Oof. Didn't realize that was why they kept coming after me.
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Frank ツ 18 Jan, 2020 @ 12:49pm 
common old scam, report and block
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pivotman319 (Trans Rights FTW!) 18 Jan, 2020 @ 1:48pm 
PSAs don't work.

Report, block, move on.
Last edited by pivotman319 (Trans Rights FTW!); 18 Jan, 2020 @ 1:49pm
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аdvicebanana 18 Jan, 2020 @ 3:32pm 
Originally posted by JacketFoster:
I'd be kind of embarrassed if it turned out these people were legit and I was screaming at them to leave me alone.
I've also had a couple of interactions with Steam accounts telling me they need me for their CSGO team. Even though it might look as if there's a human on the other end, it's usually a bot or some drone just copy-and-pasting lines from a script, so don't feel bad, I guess? Or don't waste your breath?
Just report those accounts and delete them from your friends list. Since scammers will just use a different account next time, I do not think that blocking such spammers accomplishes much.

And maybe read this to know what to expect: https://forums.steamrep.com/pages/hijacking/

Phishing sites are trickier than you might think.

Stay safe!
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Rainhound 7 Apr, 2020 @ 5:10pm 
This happened to me recently and I actually believed it and clicked their link and followed the instructions. Something else happened as well, some of my steam games wouldn't launch and now they all don't. I was wondering if this was the cause. I've already tried simple methods such as verifying the integrity of the game cache or checking the clock to see if it matched but nothing's working.
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stevenwinnie 7 Apr, 2020 @ 11:37pm 
^That sux. Be sure to report them.
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pepsi 24 Dec, 2020 @ 3:58pm 
A friend of mine recently sent me this and i started to ask myself "Why is he speaking to me in english if we both speak spanish" and more important "Why is he using Steam DM if we normaly use Discord and that's how i searched up if it was a scam :KidHat:
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Phantom 24 Dec, 2020 @ 4:11pm 
Originally posted by Kazoomi:
A friend of mine recently sent me this and i started to ask myself "Why is he speaking to me in english if we both speak spanish" and more important "Why is he using Steam DM if we normaly use Discord and that's how i searched up if it was a scam :KidHat:

If everyone was capable of spotting phishing pages or knew how they work, I think a lot of people would not lose their accounts anyway.

:cozydbd:
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Dr.Shadowds 🐉 27 Dec, 2020 @ 10:43pm 
It's a good think you stop to think, and didn't login on 3rd party sites. As there's quite a lot of scams, and publishing attacks been going on targetting Steam users daily for anything they can get their hands on. Example is a phishing site trying to trick you with a javascript broswer to fool you thinking it's legit when not, can see this for example.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2329645315

Fun fact, Steam has one click auto login, which is a single green button, and there no text fields at all. Example you can try checking this out is doing it on steamdb.info, visit Steam itself first, login, then visit the 3rd party site, and you see a single green button, nothing else to click on.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2338543075
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gudge 20 Feb, 2021 @ 11:10am 
This happened to me the other day when seeing what all the fuss was about. I knew it was a scam instantly after doing it as there was literally no "vote" option. It was an extremely stupid and careless thing to have done. Yesterday my account was hijacked and £250 of CS inventory was traded to some other account.....:(
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SigmaX 10 Mar, 2021 @ 8:38am 
ugh just got hit by it. PGL was the site that got me. I felt a little uncomfortable logging into the site with my Steam account but I did. I shouldn't have.
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Shrad811 12 Mar, 2021 @ 7:47am 
So this happened to me
It actually came to me from my friend and i just logged in
after probably 1 month or 2 It chatted with my friends and asked them to vote for the same giants team on the same site. So rather than reporting i think it's best to ignore it.
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Dr.Shadowds 🐉 12 Mar, 2021 @ 7:59am 
Originally posted by ShradGamer811:
So this happened to me
It actually came to me from my friend and i just logged in
after probably 1 month or 2 It chatted with my friends and asked them to vote for the same giants team on the same site. So rather than reporting i think it's best to ignore it.
You just report the person, and move on, that's all there is to it.

You don't click on the link, or try to engage with the person.
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