Warning of a scam going on

I still don't know why people go to links that random people put. It makes no sense!

You try to warn people but you don't say how the link looked like. I suppose it was the stearncommunity link?

I've had same conversation with someone recently. The person who sent me such link have already been in my friendlist before though. Don't know what was the truth but as soon as I asked why did he link me this phising website he said it wasn't hm and that someone hacked his account...

Good thing steamcommunity has no l, or else people could just write a capital I (i), they look the same in the steam font steam font

They even look the same in the forum

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I don't know what's worse, the people who fall for this or the people who post these threads.

The scam relies on people not reading and clicking the link. If they can't take the time to read what a random person who just added them out of no where sent, why would they bother to read your thread?

So some random guy adds you and tells you that his friend supposedly has some great offer but (conveniently) can't add you himself because Steam is being buggy? A warning alarm to be suspicious should go off right there to anyone who has half a brain. Nevermind some bogus link.

Yep.

Same thing happened to me yesterday, but I thought it was strange and checked the link.

Edit: He didn't mention any specific trade post actually, ST or otherwise.

This is NOT a new scam. The whole "hey add my friend because he can't add you" phishing thing has been going on for quite a while now.

This is like oldest steam scam ever

Yeah it started a few months ago for me, it's like a plague of gold spammers, except they don't affect me. I just received 2 of them at once. >.>