Warning!! New type of scam bot

Wait, so what do they do to u?

Valve should insist that users have at least 1 paid for game in their accounts before being able to initiate adding friends/chatting.

That would solve a lot of this.

Whenever a user with a private profile adds me, I check whether they are on Steamgifts (via Enhanced Steam) and, if they aren't, block them.

Last times, i got a problem with fcking bunch of bots who adding me do friend. Every day i need to refuse ~2 bots ><
I don't understand, why Valve can't add some options to profile like "block invites from private profiles" or something.

thanks for the warning :)

Really nothing that hasn't been seen/heard of before though. It should be common knowledge by now not to follow links sent by strangers. I for one block friend invites from level 0 accounts without even visiting the profile.

i got him, his email + login etc...
poorly obfuscated -.-

Thanks

I just block any friend requests that are level 5 or less.

Even my alt is level 6 and I only use that to farm cards from spare games. People with a less active account than that are likely throwaways or alts and I can't be bothered.

Follow the simple rule of if a profile is private, don't trade with it. If the person genuinely wants a trade, they will not be steam level 0 and should allow their inventory to be visible by friends.

Screenshots in trade are stupid and unnecessary. Always verify the trade by checking the inventory. Don't ever click a trade-related screenshot link in steam chat.

Lol I ignore them all

Just encountered a new type of scam/phishing attempt as well.

Was invited to a Steam group that claimed to be for giveaways but every link posted in it was to the typical .scr download. Sad thing is there was close to 60 people in the group in a little over 20 minutes, I have a feeling a couple people will fall victim.

Thanks for the info! Just ignore lvl 0 private profiles.

I tend to block anyone who doesn't use a name. "Dude" and "Hey" aren't names. Then they need to tell me how they know me, and I don't have a facebook.

been getting random invites for weeks now ...

Thank you for the warning <3 I was wondering why I got a couple random 'private' profile level 0 requests when I barely have any friends...

only idiots click these links

Just got randomly added by this guy: http://steamcommunity.com/id/amirobro

who attempted the same thing.

Me: Hello there
amirobro: Hi, me need this item
amirobro: [phising link removed]
amirobro: You trading item ?
Me: I don't play dota
amirobro: Hi, me need this item
amirobro: [phising link removed]
amirobro: You trading item ?
Me: write the item name here
Me: write the item name please

Edit: "dota2screen" was contained in the phising url

Thank you for letting us know.

This isn't new, it happened to me quite a few times in the past months.

Yea I got the same thing and I told the bot to go Fu@k off and reported and unfriend

Just a recommendation for something I use frequently, whenever I see a suspicious link I run it in:
https://www.virustotal.com/

And this site uses ALL the major virus engine to scan the link (or file if you want) and give you a result of its safety.

I have been gettin at least 3 per day of those for last 3-4 months....just report and block them