New scam?

A link ended in ".jpg"?

people sent around malicious links now?
what an age we live in...

It's so fucking annoying even after I block them they would send messages to me EVERYDAY

And the link of the photo is download file that ends in .exe XD

Yes, it is definitely something new.

"Hi, I know you, we are familiar from school."

Lol...

yep, i just got the same incident.
i wonder what is the next catchphrase for these phishing scams.

This happened to me too, about the same time as the OP's. The file's extension is .scr, which most of us are familiar with ^^

9/10 times when a "new friend" sends you a link, it's a scam. So my answer is to just block anyone with a very low Steam level. Don't even give them the opportunity to send you something.

''Hi, I know you, we are familiar from school.''

I can't stop laughing . What 'smart' one thought that would work ? LOL

This has been going for at least a couple of weeks now. Not that new, and just a variation of the other phishing scams going on

the cake is a lie

What if ... he was really saying the truth? ;_;

Yea i got similar msg like 2 weeks ago, rare yet but thats obvious scam

got a lot of emails like that "hey i am the cutie from the club, want to meet you, check my profile link" funny how i never go to clubs

ye, i click on link what u describe, there an scr file. I didnt run it though :p

New words, do not means its something new. The same crap in a new wrapper.

Interesting... They are trying to conquer Steam by every means.

I wonder what comes next. Maybe they try to share a picture of a porn star but it's a scam instead! I can see so many people go for it xD

Recently I had one friend on my list keep sending me random profile links, and when I asked what that was, there's no reply and after scrutinising the link, it really is just a normal profile link. (why is this even important)

You could just stop accepting invites of lvl 0 Steam users.

There was something similar on Skype earlier this year, you'd get a random message from one of your friends, saying "lol, is this you?" with a link to an archived .exe file, if you opened it, it would lock your computer and send all your friends on Skype the exact same message with the link as well. It's worse because you don't really expect something like that from friends

Yes in fact I just had an invite from a person who gave the exact chat message to me just 3 hours ago. Seems like a lot of scams are .jpg/.png links now, can never be too careful...

Not necessarily new, but don't click strange links.

I've had about fifteen of those a week, so now I ignore/block everyone who isn't really active, from somewhere, or has a mutual friend.

I think the first time I saw this kind of scam was back around 2001.