Steam Trade Scam

GsiX · **Author**

I have accepted someone in my friend list just now.
I get this message as soon as is click accept.

Quote:

Hey mate. I want to trade with you , but can't add you from trade acc. Add me please obviousphishing.com/id/Love

Question:
How many Steam Page out there or this dude try to scam maa ass..? i have no attempt to log in tho.

Spoiler

WARNING!!! DO NOT LOG IN THAT PAGES

AmineKyo · 08-12-2014 , 13:38 Re: Steam Trade Scam

well don't be stupid, that's a scam page; as soon as you write your account info it'll be sent to the scammer's email, you can insult him through that ;)

lol + it contains a virus called SteamGuard, this guy is a genius.

ddhoward · 08-12-2014 , 13:51 Re: Steam Trade Scam

That's not a trade scam. That's phishing. You should have selected "Suspected Hijacker or Phishing" as the report reason.

fysiks · 08-12-2014 , 16:22 Re: Steam Trade Scam

Why are you adding people you don't know to your friends list?

ddhoward · 08-12-2014 , 16:30 Re: Steam Trade Scam

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Originally Posted by fysiks

Why are you adding people you don't know to your friends list?

It's called Team Fortress 2. It's rather popular, and has a pretty active economy of trade.

Mr. Man · 08-12-2014 , 18:55 Re: Steam Trade Scam

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Originally Posted by ddhoward

It's called Team Fortress 2. It's rather popular, and has a pretty active economy of trade.

What? People actually play TF2 not to trade but for the sake of playing TF2!?

YamiKaitou · 08-12-2014 , 19:19 Re: Steam Trade Scam

Quote:

Originally Posted by ddhoward

It's called Team Fortress 2. It's rather popular, and has a pretty active economy of trade.

You can trade with people who are not on your friends list

fysiks · 08-12-2014 , 19:22 Re: Steam Trade Scam

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Originally Posted by YamiKaitou

You can trade with people who are not on your friends list

That's what I originally assumed.

If you never go to any links and simply use the official trading system, you'll never have any issues.

ddhoward · 08-12-2014 , 20:12 Re: Steam Trade Scam

Quote:

Originally Posted by YamiKaitou

You can trade with people who are not on your friends list

You would either need to make your Trade Offer link public, or be on the same TF2 server as them, or (I think) be in the same Steam Group as them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fysiks

use the official trading system

What other trading system was being talked about here? @_@

Kia · 08-12-2014 , 16:36 Re: Steam Trade Scam

I almost fell for it once, but then I saw I had to log in and I remembered that I just did that.
You have to watch the links carefully.