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Someone getting to your friend list without approval?

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Ashnobe

Hey guys,

has it ever happened to you that someone, who you didn't approve, got into your friends list? I just noticed it - the strange thing is that the guy's profile is private even though he is showing up in my list as a friend, so I can't view it. He is also showing as a level 0... pretty suspicious. I have traded with some people recently, so I have traced back every trade I have made and this guy just seems totally unknown to me. I thought someone could have changed their username while in my friend list, but I have only a few friends there, so I checked each one of them and noone is missing...

I am pretty cautious, so I removed him from my list, changed my passwords immediately and am running a deep anti-virus scan (even though I never click or log into suspicious websites and don't click links directly from the Steam chat).

What do you think?

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Drafek

Well You've added him yourself, or this is a bad joke (I don't mean a joke from you but like a friend added him or something) OR you got hacked.

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Ashnobe

If I added him (and he accepted so he got to my list), shouldn't I be able to view his profile even though it is private?

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Perm

Not at all, there are two different Profile Status options in your Privacy Settings (there are more, but these are relevant for your question):

Private - Only you can view your profile page

Friends Only - Only viewable by your friends

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lcephoenix

nope, not necessarily.

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enjobg

Not really
Private - Only you can view your profile page
Friends Only - Only viewable by your friends
This is in the privacy settings of steam. Check his previous names (he has only 2) maybe it's someone you know but forgotten about

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Julee

maybe he got ur user and pass and was adding u from hes 2cd account to steal ur items :o

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Ashnobe

Yeah, that's what I thought too, so I am changing every possible password... but I don't go around logging just anywhere, it is pretty strange...

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Julee

Well I can tell u that its possible to download ur cookies from a remote pc, and with those he have like all ur saved passwords and stuff that ur browser is saving.. so.. yeah internet is pretty unsafe.

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Infernotoni

a) you added him/you accepted him
b) you got a steamgift from him/you gifted him a steam-gift. This auto-adds him to your friendlist.

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akfas

b)No it doesn't... Then everyone who give gifts in this site as GA have unsuspected friend on steam.( if they use e-mail to gift of course)

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beerland

Yes it does.

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akfas

No it doesn't

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Shad0WeN

Actually, he is right. When you send/receive a Steam gift via e-mail it automatically adds that person to your friends list. So unless they changed that recently then it should still do it.

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Ashnobe

I didn't know this (scenario b) ), that might actually be the explanation... thank you. Gonna close this topic, feeling a little silly now. EDIT: So does it or does it not? :D

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Perm

It does if you send it through Steam from your inventory using their email address. It does not if you send the key from your own email.

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Ashnobe

Then solved, ty.

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Beelza

About all the options on how he ended up there have been touched.
My suggestion is to simply ask him flat out, since you can't recall. Ask him what games he plays and be straight forward with the person. "I don't remember you and that makes me uneasy".

If at the end of the conversation, you're still unconvinced, remove him. I would still go through with changing the password, running a virus scan, ect because those are really never bad things to do.

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Lafours

or one of your friend changed his steam name and you just think its someone else

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Closed 10 years ago by Ashnobe.