Greetings SteamGifts!

You may remember me from the other Steam-related apps I've created, Enhanced Steam and Idle Master. Anyway, I know a lot of you have been frustrated with all of the invites everyone's been getting from bot / scam accounts, so I wrote a program that will act as a "spam filter" for these types of invites. I'm proud to introduce Steam Invite Spam Filter.

https://github.com/jshackles/Steam_Invite_Spam_Filter

The Idea is simple: download this program, log in, enable it, then leave it running (it will even minimize to the system tray). While it's running, it will periodically check to see if you have any new invites, and automatically "ignore" them if they match your criteria - currently either by a profile level that you set or "block all".

The program is open source and written in C#. You can even compile it yourself in Visual Studio if you'd like.

It's a new release, so there could be bugs. If you encounter any issues, please let me know here: https://github.com/jshackles/Steam_Invite_Spam_Filter/issues

I hope this helps some of you!

9 years ago

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If this works well everybody will love you! I'll try it later, nice work.

9 years ago
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Thanks! Let me know if you run into any issues.

9 years ago
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I already love him for making Enhanced Steam and Idle Master.

9 years ago
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Me too!

9 years ago
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Thanks for creating this :)

If only Valve were as serious about protecting users from scammers as they are about pretending to protect users from scammers, as a cover story for killing off cross region trading...

This sort of stuff should have been built into Steam as soon as the plague of no-mark scammer bots hit.

No wonder Valve were awarded an 'F' for their 'FU' approach to satisfying customers...

9 years ago
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I think the better solution on steams end would be to check if a lvl 0 user sent 20-ish invites in a second or two and if so remove them or something.

9 years ago
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An even better solution would be for Gaben to send one of his minions round with an electric cattle prod, and stream a video of the encounter to every poor fucker the newly electrified user ever added.

9 years ago
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A better solution is to block lvl 0 accounts from sending invites at all.

9 years ago
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Alternatively, users could be required to have a valid payment method linked to their account (and to have purchased a game using it) in order to use the "invites" feature.

This would upset a few people, but their sacrifice would not be in vain...

9 years ago
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That would piss me off personally. I use prepaid cards on steam and have been using it for over 8 years with thousands of dollars spent on the store since i started using it and i know i can't be the only person. That would probably top the list of worst possible ways to fix it they could do.

9 years ago
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Yay! Thank you :) This is the sort of thing that Valve should be trying to add considering how prevalent scammer/bot invites are.

9 years ago
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Just no .

You cant auto block a users from his level or whatever, that's racist .

9 years ago
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Hope my friend you are doing a sarcasm, otherwise you should know more than anyone here about that. Btw In any appearance didn't feel like about racist but looks more than Steam isn't doing all his work as well to protect us our private accounts. Have nice day bro

9 years ago*
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I hope that was sarcasm =P If not, be glad you dont get bombarded with invites from level 0 private accounts spamming links at you.

9 years ago
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You nazi .

9 years ago
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..so are you retarded or just shitposting?

9 years ago
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Are you idiot or .. a disrespectful idiot ?

I have my guess .

9 years ago
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Neither or, just an asshole that can tell when someone is being pathetically politically correct.

So tell me, why do you care so much about bots getting blocked and how does it pertain to any race?

9 years ago
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Blacklisted

8 years ago
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Yeah...the race of Steam levels...i want to smoke the same stuff you do, mate ^^

8 years ago
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I'm proud to introduce the "Steam saver" thingy

thanks a lot
better than iPhone

9 years ago
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Oh maaan nice, Im gonna try it out right now

9 years ago
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Just what I was looking for. Thank you once again.

9 years ago
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Awesome tool!

9 years ago
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Thank you! Trying it out now.

9 years ago
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I love Enhanced Steam but didn't have a chance to use Steam Idle Master because it looks not safe for me (No offense sir) asking me to type my Id & Pw on a separate box.
I will definitely try Steam Invite Spam Filter. Thank you for your hard work. =)

9 years ago
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You have to login to this too.

9 years ago
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Ouch. =( Not gonna download it then. Thank you for saving my times.

Again: No offense to jshackles.

9 years ago
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all the code is open source. I don't think anyone has had a problem with putting in their credentials.

You could always look at the code.
jshackles for president!

8 years ago
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While I love your other 2 utilities, I am amazed that anyone gets that many bot invites to need an app for it, lol. I get an average of 1 every 3 to 5 weeks. I think bots are scraping public groups to get names to send invites to. I usually delete all old groups or any I have no interest in, that may be why.

9 years ago
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It depends on what you do around the web. I've known people who trade high value items on sites like TF2 Outpost, CSGO Lounge, etc. and get bot adds every time their trade is bumped.

9 years ago
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+1

Same. I get maybe one every 2 weeks. Might have something to do with inventory setting, if it's public or private. My guess is that they scan for valuable TF2/CS GFO items and send invites based on that criteria.

Also what velocity37 said

If you're active on TF2 outpost, after every bump it is a guaranteed visit from 2-3 bots.

9 years ago
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I wasn't getting many until recently, but now I get a few each day.

9 years ago
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Funny, I'm on Steam for quite a few years now, over level 70, yet never saw even one stray scam/spam/trade bot sending me an invite. Is it really such a big problem on Steam?

9 years ago
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Then you are lucky.

I think it depends on your public exposure.
Things that influence it:
How many friends you have
How many groups you are in
How many public forums link to your steamprofile
Your steamgifts rep and steamtrades rep
etc.
Possibly your steam level as well.
Possibly how many games you have. (makes bots think you are rich, hello all bundle games :P)

I get upwards of 5-6 random phishing invites each day.

9 years ago
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I Think it depends on the value of your inventory on the steam market mostly. The other stuff is just a way to find you, but why would they bother adding someone with nothing to scam off of him.

9 years ago
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Yeh, I get them daily too. But I never pay much attention to them.

9 years ago
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The more and the larger the steam groups you joined, the more spam / phising invites you're gonna get. Leave all groups = no more spam. Worst obviously are all groups related to FPS.

9 years ago
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Well, since FPS is something I quite dislike (the only thing I like even less are MOBAs), it seems I'm safe then. ^^

9 years ago
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I share your dislike for FPS and MOBAs, still I get those invites now and then. Not as much that it would really really bother me, still enough to be annoying.

Thanks for your awesome work on improving the Steam experience, jshackles! Steam should hire you :)

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9 years ago
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The only time I decline an invite is if they're level 0 AND a private profile. If it's only one, I accept it and just delete them if they hassle me.

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9 years ago
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I used to add them, but every single one I have ever accepted that has both were just people trying to get my CS:GO items, so I just won't anymore haha. Even if it's a level 1 profile but it's private, i'd still add it. Just not private level 0's.

9 years ago
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Wow, you basically just described my profile, lol

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8 years ago
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I really don't know, I just thought you have to have over $100 worth of games. I'm not even going to question it : p

8 years ago*
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your so awesome dude ^^ I love your idle master application as well as steam enchanced
hats off

9 years ago
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As always, a top notch release!

Thanks again sir!

9 years ago
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awww, and i thought it was only me receiving those bs invites. feeling so normal now.

@OP, your tools kick ass!

9 years ago
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Thanks for your apps - helps me a plenty everyday.

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And how about Linux version?

9 years ago
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should run on mono

EDIT: actually, it will most likely not run on mono, since he's p/invoking wininet.dll

9 years ago*
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Mono builded it but crashed on me pressing "Sign in"

9 years ago*
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you would have to replace the majority of code in frmBrowser to use HttpClient (or similar) instead of API calls to wininet.dll

9 years ago
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i'm not that familiar with c# to attempt doing that, at least not now

9 years ago
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Valve hasn't hired you yet?

9 years ago
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+69

9 years ago
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awesome! a option to ignore instead of block would be awesome as well

9 years ago
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Is it works against private profiles?

9 years ago
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It's kind of weird. I went to a private profile and it cut down the bots to nothing, then a few weeks ago, they started adding again, by the boatload. I did post to the Steam Community to assist someone, that is the only way I can see me getting bot attention.

9 years ago
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I can't login for some reason, I had the same issue with Idlemaster too.

9 years ago
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And how we are suposed to know if it work, there are an history or something ?

9 years ago
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Currently no history, but the status bar at the bottom will indicate how many invites it's filtered.

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9 years ago
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Whaaatt?
Those bots are the only ones who actually give a crap about me and give me any attention and want to trade with me and all of that.
Why would i want to get rid of that?

9 years ago
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some cookie ? ?

9 years ago
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