Valve will never send you a message via plain vanilla IM telling you about SteamGuard requirements. They have your email address, and email is more reliable than a blind IM that you may or may not ever see. Valve employees have a special "Valve" icon next to their names on their Steam profiles.
Valve will also not threaten you with your account being suspended or banned just to get you to enable an optional (but important and useful) security feature. Nor will they send you to bullshit websites that are not controlled by Valve.
It's REALLY easy to spot scammers when you keep these things in mind.
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Here is an example of a Valve employee's profile.
Notice the "VALVe" icon on his comments. He is also part of the "Valve" Steam group--a group that only holds Valve employees. Those are two indicators that only legit Valve employees will have on their profiles.
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valve will never ask you for your password anyway.
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Well, if he can see that obvious scam, I'm not surprised he can't grasp the concept of sarcasm
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Given how shitty the "Steam admin" was at English, I'm not sure if he's being invited to a volunteer Steam moderator position or he's just being told that he needs to activate SteamGuard (at a phishing site, of course) or else his account'll be suspended. I'm thinking the latter, because it's easier to make people do what you want when you scare them than when you just dangle a carrot in front of them.
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i got this msg 2 min before
Admin Hello you are welcomed by the administration steam. It is necessary for you to connect or update protection SteamGuard to your account to make it be authorised in steam If you do not execute it, the account will be disconnected in a current of 5 hours! For disconnected and ban accounts steam responsibility does not bear!
tell me what to do ??? should i login inside or not ??
but i am having feeling that this is some kinda scame
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