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kleinscheffge 5 Sep, 2014 @ 3:49pm
!!! Phishing Site !!!
Hey
I actually just joined this group because in youre text about phishing links there was a link to this group and I read that you can ban bots and the phishing links.
I nearly got phished.
Now I have the link of the phishing page and the profile of the bot.
I post it here and I hope that you can do something.

How it happened:
A person added me to his friends list and I accepted.
Then I had a message of the person that he wanted to trade with me and I should add him and he put a link in the chat.
I clicked on it and I saw the profile I clicked on "Add Friend" button and then I had to log in.
Then the window of STEAM SAFE GUARD appeared and I had to download a data to verify my computer or sth like that.
Here is the screenshot of the fake steam site with the STEAM SAFE GUARD window:
---> http://s14.directupload.net/images/140906/6zbodptd.jpg

Late I noticed that the link was wrong.
It was "steamcommenity" instead of "steamcommunity"
Then I recognized that this was a phishing site.
Here is the screenshot of the member who sent me the message:
---> http://s14.directupload.net/images/140906/n9v8hfoz.jpg
In steam his name was UNASSIGNED

I downloaded the file (stupid) but my antivirus suddenly noticed me that this is a virus and deleted the file.

So the site "steamcommenity" is a fake and the user is a bot or sth.
I hope that you take down this site and that these information were useful.
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Nooge 5 Sep, 2014 @ 3:50pm 
Did you log into the fake site? If so change your password immediately, its highly likely it was recorded.

Other than that flag the unnasigned profile on its steam profile, block the user and make sure not to download any suspicious files again. Steam will never ask you to do that when logging in.
Last edited by Nooge; 5 Sep, 2014 @ 3:51pm
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kleinscheffge 5 Sep, 2014 @ 3:54pm 
yes I logged into the fake site but when I noticed that this was a phishing site I changed my password immediately
Last edited by kleinscheffge; 5 Sep, 2014 @ 3:55pm
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Nooge 5 Sep, 2014 @ 3:56pm 
Originally posted by kleinscheffge:
yes I logged into the fake site but when I noticed that this was a phishing site I chnaged it immediately
OK. Make sure next time when someone gives a suspicious link that you do not click on it, just block and remove the user and move on. These bots have been a problem on TF2OP for a while, the admins are waiting on a patch from steam to fix it. So thats all you can do for now.

Oh and if you can, file a ticket on the users tf2op page, so the admins can ban them.
Last edited by Nooge; 5 Sep, 2014 @ 3:59pm
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kleinscheffge 5 Sep, 2014 @ 4:01pm 
OK. Now you have the link of the phishing site {LINK REMOVED} and the user.
I hope this information helped you.
And yes I have already deleted the bot from my friends list.
Thank you
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ReTired xPert ツ 6 Sep, 2014 @ 6:01am 
Interesting that people who have 1.4 hours of playtime in TF2 (so long ago that you have to check full game list to find it) and own exactly 3 items of that game, none tradable, care so damn much about phishing.
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HotMILF2002 6 Sep, 2014 @ 8:44am 
I had that aswell, the idiot tried making me click the link twice.
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mun mun 6 Sep, 2014 @ 10:30pm 
...can i have it?
some douchehat mcdickhead said "Are you kidding?" to my great trade offer,and then he took a picture and posted it to 4chan.
So....can i get revenge?
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kleinscheffge 7 Sep, 2014 @ 5:53am 
Originally posted by ReTired ツ:
Interesting that people who have 1.4 hours of playtime in TF2 (so long ago that you have to check full game list to find it) and own exactly 3 items of that game, none tradable, care so damn much about phishing.

This has nothing to do with the game TF2.
I just read that when you (nearly) got phished you can report that in this group ... and so I did .
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ReTired xPert ツ 7 Sep, 2014 @ 8:34am 
Well, it has, also with dota and cs:go, these are the most common targets of phishers because of the huge amount of trading volume and the sick value of items passing around here. Of course you would know that if you would actually play TF2, and if you would do only a little bit of trading you would know that this happens thousands of times each day.

Now the really fun part is, nothing much would have happened to you if you would have entered your details on that phishing site. You own nothing, all the phisher prolly would have done is maybe changing your password and use your account for spamming. You would have gotten your account back from steam and never realize that you are banned on pretty much every trading site because you never visit one.

Now imagine that everyone who gets a random phishing attempt and has nothing to do with trading or that game would post that in every affected game forum, can you imagine how much traffic thid causes? Rest assured when you get a single phish everyone here got already a huge swarm of that phish in every possible colour, shape and taste.
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OG Sexa 7 Sep, 2014 @ 11:49pm 
Nice try but this will never help that much. I have banned over 200 phishers, and there are still new and new, so it's useless work, sorry. Anyways good luck with them all :)
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kleinscheffge 8 Sep, 2014 @ 2:07am 
Originally posted by MottoMottoCZ:
Nice try but this will never help that much. I have banned over 200 phishers, and there are still new and new, so it's useless work, sorry. Anyways good luck with them all :)

Okay.
thx anyway
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Thimple ThighMan 9 Sep, 2014 @ 1:56pm 
Originally posted by Nooge:
Originally posted by kleinscheffge:
yes I logged into the fake site but when I noticed that this was a phishing site I chnaged it immediately
OK. Make sure next time when someone gives a suspicious link that you do not click on it, just block and remove the user and move on. These bots have been a problem on TF2OP for a while, the admins are waiting on a patch from steam to fix it. So thats all you can do for now.

Oh and if you can, file a ticket on the users tf2op page, so the admins can ban them.

Can you explain that gobbledygook at the end a bit better please?

I had the same guy, just try the same trick with me too, but I didn't fall for it. How do I report the phishing attempt to 'the admins'? The only 'support' doc I found on Steam was from something dated 2007 with the search term 'phishing' producing exactly 3 out of date results. Useless!
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Nooge 9 Sep, 2014 @ 3:24pm 
Originally posted by TaliskerTaster:


Can you explain that gobbledygook at the end a bit better please?

I had the same guy, just try the same trick with me too, but I didn't fall for it. How do I report the phishing attempt to 'the admins'? The only 'support' doc I found on Steam was from something dated 2007 with the search term 'phishing' producing exactly 3 out of date results. Useless!

Alright, here goes:

Lets say a bot has added you with the same old message that they always send. You know its a phsing link so you don't click it. GG you're smart, now you click the drop down box on the chat and visit their profile page. On their profile page there should be a drop down box labeled "More" in this menu there should be a button called "report violation" Click This.
(Shown here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/96wr0by8gr0grs9/Screen%20Shot%202014-09-10%20at%208.20.13%20AM.png?dl=0)

A window should popup that looks something like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ce3rmjgismxa3zb/Screen%20Shot%202014-09-10%20at%208.22.49%20AM.png?dl=0

Check the box that says "Suspected Hijacker or Phsing" and either copy and paste the chat into the box below, or take a screenshot it and post a link to it in the box, either is fine. Hit the green "Submit Report" button.

Once you have done this, block and remove the bot from your friends list.

Hope this clears this up and let me know if you are still confused by anything.
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Thimple ThighMan 9 Sep, 2014 @ 3:30pm 
Hi Nooge

Thanks for the explanation.

Unfortunately, as soon as I saw his/its profile was set to private (does a private profile still have a 'more' drop down?), and the link was 'comminity' or whatever I removed him. :(

Are there any chat logs hidden away in the settings somewhere? So that I can get his user ID etc. then go to his profile page and report him?
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Nooge 9 Sep, 2014 @ 3:32pm 
Originally posted by TaliskerTaster:
Hi Nooge

Thanks for the explanation.

Unfortunately, as soon as I saw his/its profile was set to private (does a private profile still have a 'more' drop down?), and the link was 'comminity' or whatever I removed him. :(

Are there any chat logs hidden away in the settings somewhere? So that I can get his user ID etc. then go to his profile page and report him?
A private profile should still have that drop down box so you can report it. If you remove the user (sometimes even closing the chat window) the chat history gets removed.
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