Detect Good is coming up empty in this direction.
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I'm surprised he was so straight with it though, steam should start doing IP bans for these kind of stuff.
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To how he get games in his account - he can just use one of the newly acquired accounts to continue his game. As long as people don't learn to not blindly enter their credentials anywhere, these people will have it easy.
It's good that you post this though, so people will be reminded. Might save an account or two :)
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I've always wondered about what one could do with a Steam account, even if the credit card info was right there. One buys oneself a game, and then what? Once you know you've been compromised, you can just ask Valve or your police, and I'm sure they'll trace where the game has gone.
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Silly lowlifes. If only they focused all of that energy and determination on worthwhile goals.
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The sad part is how effective it is.
I did automated GMail / RapidShare scamming in ages past (Google my nick), and gathered around 200 RS's / 50 GMail accounts - Per day.
Did it mostly out of boredom, and some of my friends used RapidShare, so I gave them accounts - Didn't ever profit - Was just for fun.
I stopped when my one app got out of hand, and I was getting +- 5000 new GMail accounts a day - So I created a rule to auto-delete all incoming messages, and stopped using the account.
People are gullible - For every 10 that say - "Oh, it's a scam!" you'll get one person that will go "Cool - Free game - I'll enter my account details wherever I'm asked!"
We're a sad race :<
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"Did it mostly out of boredom" Why would you deprive someone of their e-mail/rs account out of boredom? If you had a monetary motive, yeah I could understand that.. But just for fun? You sound like a very sad person.
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I never changed a password (Most of the people never even realised their e-mails were compromised) and thought the concept of RS was.... poor at best (Please enter this CAPTCHA, wait 5 minutes, then download from our site - If you use a download manager, you get blocked for 20 hours! \o/), so felt no remorse there.
And yes - Out of boredom - You'd be surprised how little work you have to do to get thousands of accounts...
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If you use a download manager, you get blocked for 20 hours!
Used Chrome extensions, didn't find that bullshit.
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Some hackers who get you to download a program (mostly for WoW gold). Their MO is to have you enter your account info and then the software connects to an email address, creates a new email, types in the account info and sends it to itself. Crazy.
There's a technique called "whailing" [sic] where you extract some of the program (I don't know exactly what) - namely, the email part. And the password right below it. In my time I've grabbed one or two of these scams straight from Youtube and connected to the email address. You don't need to guess the rest: all emails deleted without looking at a single one, and password changed. Same as you, boredom and curiosity.
Although guys, this is still hacking so don't do it. I repeat: if a police officer is reading this right now, I was asleep at the time and I am asleep now - I am writing this from my sleeping state and I do not condone hacking even in my sleep.
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I wonder why everyone who get's ''targeted'' by those scammers start by telling them they are actually scammers. Next time try to be more subtle, if it helps.
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Yeah, recently I was sent a similar type of message. Some random guy suddenly sending me a message about where to "collect a free game" I apparently won and then almost immediately logging off. Obviously, I knew it was a scam but, unfortunately, I didn't report it.
There are a lot of people who are new to the internet (and thus internet naive) as they come from poor countries where internet access is still new and they are probably the ones who get scammed the most: some poor guy from a third-world country creates a Steam account, buys a few games with his limited income to distract himself for a few hours from the serious troubles he has in his life, and then some amoral moron (who's probably an unemployed slacker living in his parents' basement) comes along and steals his account, permanently destroying his gaming experience and only adding to his sorrows. Why does the scammer do this to such people? Simply because he's an entitled individual, bored with his mundane Western middle-class existence and too lazy to work a legitimate job. If the scammer was simply robbing from the rich, I don't think too many people would care and, moreover, little damage would be done. But that's not the case.
These scammers are really disgusting individuals and every effort should be taken to derail their plans and punish them.
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Check it out: ChatLog
maybe some ppl are interested in this. i recieved a chat request and with that another link to an obvious steam phishing site. i didnt even click the link because its so obvious but i talked to him a bit. see our chatlog above.
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