Be aware folks, I cannot confirm this, but tonight i recieved a steam mesgae from ev[V]vol about the following steam promotion at Steam Community. He went straight offline afterwards.
At first I thought it was a joke and didnt bother as honestly I cannot remember this this guy. Half an hour later i get the same from [hos]Phoenix whom I know. However the page was slighlty different as it didnt show all the free games. So I messaged him and it seemed legit. He then went offline. and my Steam shut down. I attempted to log back in and got that my steam account was in use by another computer.
I am not saying that Phoenix did this.
Did anyone else get this tonight, or is this legit and I was just ironicaly unlucky..I ende up being abe to retrive use of my account by resetting the password......
UPDATE... I can confirm Fleshy just received the same sort of thing supposedly form myself...BEWARE FOLKS IT IS NOT REAL
Same here tonight. Was SMSing with Phoenix before and he's peaking that his account got done. He's trying to get it back.
Definitely a bad one. Fortunately I smelt a rat immediately. They're trying to be sneaky by joining groups you're in (the guy/bot who tried to ping me was in the HOS group).
Hope anyone who got burnt can sort it out quick smart.
I didn't click on the links - because I automatically figured their accounts would have been hacked. If I knew them, they're not the type of people that would send that shit. If I didn't know them, I wouldn't click anyway, regardless. Anyone who sends me a link I don't know, seemingly legitimate or not, I block them and remove them from friends.
Tis a good lesson to learn. I admit i went to the link after talking to who I thought was phoenix. I guess that i am lucky enough to have picked up the ramblings at the bottom of the page at the same time my account got locked. Being able to reset my steam password straight away seemed to have done the trick, checking of my router logs shows no attemots or unauthorised acces :)
hah got the message from evvol about 30 seconds after i got a message from Chips saying he got the weirdest random spam from the same guy =) trying to get a hold of chips now to see if he actually clicked the link...
Quote from craZy C;378605: Be aware folks, I cannot confirm this, but tonight i recieved a steam mesgae from ev[V]vol about the following steam promotion at Steam Community. He went straight offline afterwards.
At first I thought it was a joke and didnt bother as honestly I cannot remember this this guy. Half an hour later i get the same from [hos]Phoenix whom I know. However the page was slighlty different as it didnt show all the free games. So I messaged him and it seemed legit. He then went offline. and my Steam shut down. I attempted to log back in and got that my steam account was in use by another computer.
I am not saying that Phoenix did this.
Did anyone else get this tonight, or is this legit and I was just ironicaly unlucky..I ende up being abe to retrive use of my account by resetting the password......
UPDATE... I can confirm Fleshy just received the same sort of thing supposedly form myself...BEWARE FOLKS IT IS NOT REAL
I thought it was dodgy and didn't follow any of the links (5 requests in total). The real kicker was the message I sent craZy asking why he's sending me this link and the un-craZy like reply of "that link give games for ur steam". That pretty much sold me on it not being craZy or legit.
i had a feeling he got hacked. I got the message also from ev[V]vol about free games from steam crap! best rule would be is to disable hot linking to sites and so forth from steam altogether (Chats mainly) i dont want to hit links due to having alot steam games (207 total sofare)