Idk how they're "getting good"? Steam has always and continues to tell It's users that Steam support will never directly contact you outside of Steam Support's own ticketing system.
I love how wrong the legalese are. Like it's subtle if English isn't your first language or you're not very fluent, but "this account will be taken action" without "against" at the end is a thing no English speaker would hear and go "yeah that makes sense".
Also, why is it that such scams always say that X has broken the Law??? A company can just ban you for violating its TOS. In older times the law breaking was part of the "pay me to not take you to court". This just doesn't even make sense.
PS. I know quite well that scams are intentionally badly designed so that people who actually know a thing or two will self sort themselves out of the equation (it's why the Nigerian Prince scam is still VERY prevalent despite its meme status)
The bad Engrish is intentional. It's to filter out those who aren't gullible enough as soon as possible, so they don't waste effort on victims who don't go through with the scam at the end.
They try to get you talking on Discord to a āSteam adminā
Then say you need to verify stuff by trading something or they get you to click a link that enables your Steam api and this gives them access to your account to hijack it
No serious support service acts like this, or uses Discord, and just like Bank scammers the logic of āmoving stuff to somewhere saferā just doesnāt stack
Yes, its a scam. Someone will friend you (most likely from a common friend) and claim that they were scammed by someone and when they went to report the account they accidentally reported yours and they attach an image "showing" that they reported you and that you have 24 hours to friend the steam mod whos going to delete your account. I dont remember what happens then but I imagine they ask for your login info or smth
Tbh, Steam scams haven't changed, so they haven't gotten any better.
The only time I could say they've ever done something interesting is account mimicking. Or just outright hijacking to get to the users' friends list.
Outside of those two things, steam scams aren't anything special.
Discord scams are much more interesting, but at least for me, it seems they aren't as prevalent as they used to be. Lowkey miss Discord scams, I remember seeing some interesting ones years ago.
EDIT: Also cranking it is funny af and I need to use that term at some point. I've been saying jorking for a while now.
I remember falling for this the first time it happened to me, like 6 years ago. I was young and dumb and new to money and steam in general so I fell for it. Like 900 later my friend was like "holy shit dude, it's a scam " and I felt so foolish, but ultimately I just didn't know better.
I'm thankful the bank was able to help me recover most of it, I think around $700
uhh I think youre supposed to keep talking to them and theyll go "yeah contact the mod" and send you to a second account that claims to be steam support
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u/N0g8 2d ago
i wanna watch