PSA: Phishing Links

Some people still continue posting text and/or screenshot.

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Never click on anything if you're not sure about it, even if a friend sents it let alone a stranger on the internet.

there are massive numbers of these links posting one doesn't help anyone but the phishers.

also saying don't click X link. they may think scammer like Y is ok. best to just say don't install untrusted exe's (so far i've seen steamguard & adobe addons being the infectors) and be careful where you log into steam from.

I presume you can post only a part of the link, enough to distinguish.

then you may explain people what phishing is without giving a link. because it doesnt matter if you will link them to steamconnnunity or steamcomnunity or whatever - what difference does it make? they all work the same. You can easily warn people without giving a link, only difference is that if you give a link someone may accidentally click it without reading it, or click it out of curiousity without for example having addblock / antivir / antispyware and get himself scammed.

I've invented a device that makes you read things in my voice!

I don't have the ability to sticky things, and the rate of scroll-off would make it pointless to try and keep a thread visible over there, but it would be nice if it were made general knowledge over there, yes.

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I think the parts where I mention suspending people and the 'support' tag next to my comments in the thread should get the idea across to anyone actually looking. As far as its appearance in the forum, I can't really do anything about that. And really, this is one of those things that should be common sense anyway. Why would we tolerate people posting phishing links? Might as well put a big banner on the front page inviting phishers to come ply their trade here.