STEAM PHISHING ATTEMPT VIA VIDEOSIFT GROUP
Watch out, somebody just attempted to phish my STEAM account (and to my complete chagrin, I fell for it, since the page and URL looked legit, and I thought I was just logging into the STEAM community to view a group's info in my browser, lololol 
), and the account was a member of the VideoSift group. If somebody links you to http://steamcommunitygroups.awardspace.co.uk/, DO NOT LOG IN ON THAT SITE. Guess I learned my lesson of not fully reading URLs and all that jazz today.
Fortunately, I was able to log in and delete my credit card information via my browser as soon as I got booted out of STEAM itself by this asshole logging into my account, so hopefully no harm will be done, and I've already sent in a request to STEAM to get my account back, so fingers crossed.
lololol do I feel like a moron. Cut me some slack though, I'm running on like four hours of sleep multiple nights in a row and maaaaaaaaad personal issues stressing me out. ;(
), and the account was a member of the VideoSift group. If somebody links you to http://steamcommunitygroups.awardspace.co.uk/, DO NOT LOG IN ON THAT SITE. Guess I learned my lesson of not fully reading URLs and all that jazz today.Fortunately, I was able to log in and delete my credit card information via my browser as soon as I got booted out of STEAM itself by this asshole logging into my account, so hopefully no harm will be done, and I've already sent in a request to STEAM to get my account back, so fingers crossed.
lololol do I feel like a moron. Cut me some slack though, I'm running on like four hours of sleep multiple nights in a row and maaaaaaaaad personal issues stressing me out. ;(
18 Comments
RyjkyjWhoa, trippy.
randomizeYeah, same to you.
This is why the group should be by invite.
JAPRYeah, I saw that it was from VideoSift, and just assumed it was somebody who had changed their STEAM display name (since that happens), so I was on trusting auto-pilot and only wondering what the group was.
randomizeCool update: I've just e-mailed the Admins That Be at awardspace and they've disabled the account. Yay!
gwiz665I got a message too from http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014173011/ luckily I didn't log in, since I've become sensitive to phishing since I played wow.
SarzyI too got a chat request from said scammer. Fortunately I'm an unfriendly weirdo, so I was like "chat with someone I don't know? Pass!" I didn't even get to the attempted phishing part.
BoneRemakeharsh!
f the f'rs up the a hole.
blankfist>> ^Sarzy:
I too got a chat request from said scammer. Fortunately I'm an unfriendly weirdo, so I was like "chat with someone I don't know? Pass!" I didn't even get to the attempted phishing part.
But you do know me, you rude jerk! *runs away crying*
kronosposeidonThis is important. Better give it a *quality.
siftbotAwarding JAPR with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by kronosposeidon.
dystopianfuturetodayI used to go phishing with my grandpa when I was a kid. We'd go down to the creek with our laptops and manipulate people into giving us their credit card information. Then we'd spend it all on blow and hookers. Simpler times.
RedSkyHah, me too. I was wondering who that was ...
budzosYeah I saw some weird name from VS group wanting to chat and hit BLOCK without a second thought.
Tymbrwulf>> ^JAPR:
lololol do I feel like a moron. Cut me some slack though
No slack cut for you! You almost became another internet statistic. It makes me smile when old-school phishing attempts like this still work on people who use the internet daily. You're just lucky you got your info out in time (or if you didn't, you'll have to monitor your credit report for a few months just to make sure he didn't steal the info and sell it to someone else).
No way to learn like the hard way
JAPR>> ^Tymbrwulf:
>> ^JAPR:
lololol do I feel like a moron. Cut me some slack though
No slack cut for you! You almost became another internet statistic. It makes me smile when old-school phishing attempts like this still work on people who use the internet daily. You're just lucky you got your info out in time (or if you didn't, you'll have to monitor your credit report for a few months just to make sure he didn't steal the info and sell it to someone else).
No way to learn like the hard way
STEAM only displays the last four digits of the card information, if I recall correctly, so the worst they would have been able to do is make purchases through STEAM with it. Can anybody else confirm this? lol
randomize>> ^JAPR:
STEAM only displays the last four digits of the card information, if I recall correctly, so the worst they would have been able to do is make purchases through STEAM with it. Can anybody else confirm this? lol
What I think he's doing is using your credit card if you stored it on your account, but if not he'll probably just sell the account to someone.
gwiz665The worst thing he can do is buy a bunch of games on steam, and you can figure that out with the steam folks.. they're good people.
JAPRWoo, account's back.
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