Was this scam downloaded from the Steam client or through some 3rd party?

Valve screens all products for malware and such before allowing them to be available on the store in any form.

I'm willing to bet this isnt a Steam problem to fix

Originally posted by Phoque:

Add warning to community hub for unknown games

Recently my friend was a target of a crypto scam involving steam distribution.

The attacker reached out via X and asked if the victim would be willing to try out there game.

They downloaded the test build and later had their funds wiped.

The game in question has roughly 140~ fake reviews, and has the “steam is still learning about this game”.


My suggestion is simple, until there is a full review of the game by steam, steam should add a large red flag to the page when interacting with it.

Tell your friend to report the store page via the report flag.

Originally posted by datCookie:

Was this scam downloaded from the Steam client or through some 3rd party?

Valve screens all products for malware and such before allowing them to be available on the store in any form.

I'm willing to bet this isnt a Steam problem to fix

From what I can gather they were pushing the malware out via a dev build. (This would bypass the scan for the store page)

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Phoque:

Add warning to community hub for unknown games

Recently my friend was a target of a crypto scam involving steam distribution.

The attacker reached out via X and asked if the victim would be willing to try out there game.

They downloaded the test build and later had their funds wiped.

The game in question has roughly 140~ fake reviews, and has the “steam is still learning about this game”.


My suggestion is simple, until there is a full review of the game by steam, steam should add a large red flag to the page when interacting with it.

Tell your friend to report the store page via the report flag.

:nkCool:

It has been done, by myself as well.

Originally posted by Phoque:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Tell your friend to report the store page via the report flag.

It has been done, by myself as well. :g:

That is all that needs to be done for Valve to investigate the matter.

If it was determined to be malicious, the game will be removed from Steam.

Dev builds get scanned too

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Dev builds get scanned too

https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1969793042531107300
Here is a tweet showcasing over $150k stolen using steam platform. They are not paying attention at all.

Originally posted by Phoque:

Originally posted by fluxtorrent:

Dev builds get scanned too

{LINK REMOVED}https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1969793042531107300
Here is a tweet showcasing over $150k stolen using steam platform. They are not paying attention at all.

A couple of people downloading malware and posting a tweet doesn't exactly equate to much and would be why it isn't being paid attention to. Report the game(s) as stated if they do contain malware.

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by Phoque:

https://x.com/zachxbt/status/1969793042531107300
Here is a tweet showcasing over $150k stolen using steam platform. They are not paying attention at all.

A couple of people downloading malware and posting a tweet doesn't exactly equate to much and would be why it isn't being paid attention to. Report the game(s) as stated if they do contain malware.

This has been on-going for over a month with different cases of people downloading the game, having there account get hi-jacked, and proceeding to attempt to scam others. I have reported the game and nothing has been done. I have brought it up on the community hub only to be banned by the developer. The developer also does not answer ANY questions, only removes any posts bringing up suspicion.

Reviews on the game are all fake.

At this point, I think steam just does not care because it is related to crypto scams.

Apparently it's already been delisted.

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Apparently it's already been delisted.

a month later...

Going back to my point, there should be some sort of warning system to highlight these unverified games better. I had reported it multiple times on the steam store page, on steam support directly.

Nothing was done for a full month until a bigger scam brought attention to it.

Originally posted by Phoque:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Apparently it's already been delisted.

a month later...

Going back to my point, there should be some sort of warning system to highlight these unverified games better. I had reported it multiple times on the steam store page, on steam support directly.

Nothing was done for a full month until a bigger scam brought attention to it.

I am sure nobody is more disappointed than the people of this thread who were so certain you were wrong and doing a Chicken Little routine.

Originally posted by Phoque:

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Apparently it's already been delisted.

a month later...

Going back to my point, there should be some sort of warning system to highlight these unverified games better. I had reported it multiple times on the steam store page, on steam support directly.

Nothing was done for a full month until a bigger scam brought attention to it.

"Steam is still learning about this game" doesn't relate to the game's safety.

Valve checks games before release. Valve doesn't proactively restrict what game developers can do with their own games after that approval. That's a good thing. That's why games can get updated much faster on Steam to fix bugs than on any console.

In all the cases I've seen, the malicious code was added after the game was already released.

There's no warning Valve can put on a game's community hub that would help against viruses because the lack of such a warning would not be any guarantee of anything.

Common sense is needed. If someone contacts you and asks you to download and run a program and you don't already trust them to that level, you should probably just say no.

Originally posted by Ben Lubar:

Originally posted by Phoque:

a month later...

Going back to my point, there should be some sort of warning system to highlight these unverified games better. I had reported it multiple times on the steam store page, on steam support directly.

Nothing was done for a full month until a bigger scam brought attention to it.

"Steam is still learning about this game" doesn't relate to the game's safety.

Valve checks games before release. Valve doesn't proactively restrict what game developers can do with their own games after that approval. That's a good thing. That's why games can get updated much faster on Steam to fix bugs than on any console.

In all the cases I've seen, the malicious code was added after the game was already released.

There's no warning Valve can put on a game's community hub that would help against viruses because the lack of such a warning would not be any guarantee of anything.

Common sense is needed. If someone contacts you and asks you to download and run a program and you don't already trust them to that level, you should probably just say no.

A warning saying the current update is un-scanned / unverifed may help, and really wouldn't hurt. But I agree common sense is always needed. However most people assume Steam is a safe platform to download from wouldn't you agree?

Originally posted by Phoque:

A warning saying the current update is un-scanned / unverifed may help, and really wouldn't hurt.

Given that Valve only manually checks games pre-release (or for Steam Deck Verification) and that antivirus scans are automated and only catch known viruses, that warning would either always show up or never show up, making it useless.