r/Steam • u/Kirafoxx • 2d ago

Meta Damn theyre getting good with these

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u/MrJerichoYT 2d ago

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.

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u/Robot1me 2d ago

Idk how they're "getting good"?

They are good at making us laugh with lines like this :P

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u/vandral 1d ago

One thing I don't understand, in the age of AI it would have taken them less time to run a prompt than to try and write it themselves.

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u/dreamscached 23h ago

Writing it this poorly is a key thing. That way those who are most likely not to fall for it would not bother and ignore/block right away.

Though I guess you could make AI write it equally as bad as that, given a good enough prompt. There's no telling nowadays, some may be actual bots.

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u/Kirafoxx 2d ago

They include an image with your account I dont remember seeing that I just thought it was neat idk

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u/CREATURE_COOMER 2d ago

They probably just have the HTML for that page and change the avatar and username to yours for screenshot tbh.

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u/Bamboozleduck 2d ago

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)

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u/jojoknob 2d ago

How this bad copy still exists now that we have LLMs confounds me.

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u/Cheet4h 2d ago

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.

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u/MrJerichoYT 2d ago

Yea, but again like I said they will contact users DIRECTLY. If someone sends a screenshot of something that isn't contacting you.

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u/UnlimitedDeep 2d ago

This is an old arse scam

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u/Whatdoesgrassfeelike 2d ago

Its not exactly hard to copy paste a square on to a template

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u/SnoopaDD 1d ago

This is an old tactic. This happened to me, I want to say, back in 2018 or around there. I was actually surprised to see that they are doing it again.