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New Steam Scam?

MoonKnightSpidey
By MoonKnightSpidey
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Usual link-scamming. Sucks that so much of Steam is this, but hey; what can ya do.

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Well, Steam could actually deal with it and just have a "Report" button.

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IS this why ive been getting random people inviting me to their friends list? Ive rejected them all so far lol

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IS this why ive been getting random people inviting me to their friends list? Ive rejected them all so far lol

 Yep, I got two random friend requests and then they both kept spamming me with these messages. 

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Why would you even accept a random nobody who add you as a friend... I refuse all of them, no exception.

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Why would you even accept a random nobody who add you as a friend... I refuse all of them, no exception.

 

But what if it's a hot girl? Oh wait, it might be an old man with a profile pic of a hot girl....

 

 

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Obvious and really bad scam, literally no excuse to get fooled by it unless you're the kind of person who lets the creepy stranger in the playground bushes babysit your kids.

I'm telling the truth! I AM a 12 year old girl!

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My friends account got hacked and i got a chat message like that. I instantly knew it was some sort of virus/scam.

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Make a System Restore point before downloading it.

it saved me from 2 viruses (on my old PC ofcorse)

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I actually once clicked on such link, had to reinstall my entire PC :D

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My PC sucks so much it does not support virtual machine.

 

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I believe I have another steam scam guys.

 

"I want to trade those items

check screenshot (http:vk.cc/3wQ623C)

answer if you are interested"

 

Is what I recieved from user "Phatboy" who send me a friend request which I accepted then they sent that.

"4:17 PM - MoonKnightSpidey: Hello

4:31 PM - MoonKnightSpidey: ???

4:31 PM - MoonKnightSpidey: Why did you send me a friend request

10:07 AM - Phatboy is now Online.

10:07 AM - Phatboy: Hi

I want to trade those items

check screenshot (http:vk.cc/3wQ623C )

answer if you are interested

10:07 AM - Phatboy is now Offline."

 

I have replaced the link with a fake one but it still was a vk.cc url.

Does anyone know what this is?

If anyone thinks it may not be a virus I will open using tor.

 

I still find it hard to believe people fall for this.

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Last month I had like 10 friend requests a week from users with 0 steam lvl. Added two, they did not respond so I deleted them. Not adding any lvl 0 accounts anymore.

I feel sorry for people who do and are not yet experienced enough to not click links.

Can't imagine myself being born at this age. Too many harmful shit attacking us everywhere.

In 90's and early 20' we would send each other a file that would shut the PC down, open your DVD drive or opened an application u couldn't close with mouse :D

Now its just virus here, virus there :(

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