yeah - I've seen 2 of these bots myself so far for 2 different groups
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enlight you with what? Guys basically make level 1 alts and say on their profile they're official bots for big GA groups. Both I got invites from were associated with massive GA groups that do GAs over SteamCompanion.
Not really sure what can you say to make you stay away from them - just usual stuff - don't click any links someone who just added you pastes in your chat.
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But bots are the only form of social interaction I have on Steam lately. If I stop getting those then I'll have nothing.
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Social interaction is overrated and uses time you could be spending on games.
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Haha so true. If I wanted social interaction, I would go outside. You know, that place that is way too bright...
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Don't even joke about that, I opened a window once to look out and it was terrifying. I don't know how people do it.
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Bots aren't social, they're only pre-recorded with messages.
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You know that expecting to get a good conversation with a bot is like expecting great music out of a warped record right?
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Lucky you then, not even a single bot has added me.
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This is the first (and hopefully last) scam/phishing thingy I almost fell for O.o
Luckily, the red flag immediatelly kicked in when I saw that it required me to download something.
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Yes it is hard, because random people these days give you links for good free stuff most of times.
Really hard to separate good from bad?
-Hi, check this beautiful link and collect free things (just for you) because you are special boy!
-Oh thank you ^^
... Is this real life?
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Haha, no. I never fall for those. These ones pose as official bots of a giveaway groups that people are members of ;)
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The bot is pretending to be "working" for a giveaway group. So it's not that weird to presume to have won something, I guess, specially for new and inexperienced users who never had seen it before. I got added by one of those bots, and I was unsure if it was legitimate or not till I got to "you won" part and I can see somebody who doesn't really know how this group's giveaways work fall for it.
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Hi! You won Fallout 5, just follow this beautiful link...
Why you need to follow any links, in most cases you receive gift trough Steam, you almost never need to follow any links i am pretty sure...
btw. this thing for CS GO, it does not exist and is connected with my Fallout remark...
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Just because experienced users know that, doesn't mean everybody does. It's the same thing as with impersonators. I don't play CS:GO so can't say how credible it is, but I can imagine not everybody can tell on sight it doesn't exist. Regardless, I have the impression it's working, so it's a "good" phishing attempt.
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Yes your right, it all boils down to the fact of using your basic common sense.
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I'm a bit surprised this actually works. Whenever I see that I was randomly drawn to win something, I always know it is a scam, as you don't just randomly win something, you always have to enter in some way. But I can see why some people might fall for it as it is a bot with the same name as a group you are part off. I guess I'm lucky that I never encountered something like this before.
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jesus the awp asiimov fn doesn't exist, at least use an existing bait :|
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Most probably your average soviet scammer, I have hundreds of his kin blocked on Steam...
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I had one add me yesterday and it messaged me right after I accepted the friend request. It said it was a bot right in the message and it said I won a giveaway from a steam group and wanted me to click a link to go somewhere.
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Bump is needed !
also best part :
You have 5 minute !
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Haha ikr! I guess he says there's a "5 minute limit" to make the person panic and click the link fast. But that actually only makes it all more suspicious lol.
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I got a friend request from a public profile account with the name identical to the name of a giveaway group I am member of.
When I took a look at the profile of the user it said "Price bot" beneath the name and the description was copy-paste of the group's front-page description.
I wasn't sure what's going on, it was suspicious but I added him anyway to see what's up.
This is what he sent me immediately upon accepting his friend request
I contacted one of the group administrators that I have on my friend list and asked him what's going on and is this normal for that group. He replied it's not and that it's most likely a scam. Luckily I didn't click the link before asking him and I of course ended up deleting the bot from my friend list.
It is highly possible that the creator of this bot made more bots with names of other giveaway groups too. I assume most people here are cautious enough not to get tricked by this kind of scam but I wanted to post about it just in case.
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