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Phishing Countermeasure: Seller-Requested Captcha
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Phishing Countermeasure: Trade Offers
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Hows outpost doing nowadays?
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Wiki of Conclusions. Was: RE: Phishing Bots and How to Stop Them
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RE: Phishing Bots and How to Stop Them
Originally posted by NiceTraderJoe:
  • A captcha to reach site links containing Steam IDs (fights scraping)
  • Log user activity and analyze for potential bot accounts
  • Help Steam by collecting and reporting bots and hijacked accounts
  • NEW: Provide a wiki for articles about phishing, bots, proposed and current site countermeasures, etc. (not a sticky thread 200+ posts)
  • NEW: Trade through Steam Trade Offers rather than direct friending (can friend after offer)

No captchas will be added - most phishing accounts have humans behind them. Useless.

User activity does not indicate an account is a phishing bot or not. Having 0 trades or rarely using the site would match several thousand accounts, and some of the phishing accounts are active but hijacked accounts.

Steam doesn't care.

A wiki is a dedicated application/site and we have no interest in running one. Wikis are also not designed to discuss things, but to provide a collection of information about a certain subject. A problem should not be rewarded with a site to talk about it, it should be solved by the only party that can do something about it, in this case Steam. A new thread explaining the matter is expected to replace the current one.

Trade offers are already available on the site, people are welcome to add their URLs on the settings page and avoid direct adds. We can't force people to stop accepting friend requests - we do not own Steam.

None of your suggestions solve the problem. If people complain on Steam forums instead of doing it here all the time, maybe things will change.

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Are collecting offers valid as current offers?
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My trade is broken!
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Is there a way to remove/delete trades from tf2outpost?
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I'm banned from group chat
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