Windows Public Service Annoucement: Watch out for Steam Scammers.

Hey folks. For those of you who haven't been hit already, just thought i'd bring some attention to the latest little scam running around: the friends list on Steam.

I was recently contacted by a guy named "Administration".

interrupting my game of Insurgency (grrr). he proceeded to tell me that my account had been reported hijacked, and that i should email my name/pass to administration@steampoweredcentral.net.
I present my doubts as to his authenticity, and he threatens that my steam account will be deleted in 24 hours if I don't.

We'll see, buddy.

a quick Whois search reveals steampoweredcentral.net is registered to an aol domain service.
I tell him to bugger himself, and submit a real report including HIS steam ID on the ACTUAL steam support site.
no chat logs though, couldn't find them.

So the lesson remains the same:

DONT GIVE OUT PERSONAL OR LOGIN INFO.

 

Isn't all that pretty much a given?

I can appreciate that your trying to help but I doubt that this forums members are the kind that may fall prey to such retards and their little scams.

 

You'd be surprised...

 

Indeed. Though it's a dead giveaway, as Valve never asks for your password afaik. Sometimes I'm tempted to sign those scammers to up a whole boatload of spam. F**king d**kheads.

 

What's fun is toying with them

Honestly, if someone falls to a scammer, then they deserve to get their account stolen. That's what they get for not paying attention to what Steam says. Nor taking basic logic into account that Steam has your password/username/email stored in their databases and therefore don't need to know your account details to affect changes to it.

 

you don't frequent the hardware forums much, do you?

 

I read this awesome thing a while ago, some kid was trying to scam this guy into giving out his Steam account details over msn, so the scamee said that he actually worked for valve (he didn't), got the kids details and locked him out of his account XD

Might have been posted on here, can't remember.

 

Veles: That's been posted everywhere

 

You make me a sad panda Doug

*cries in the corner*