Friendly Reminder!

[AWPerator]

NEVERGIVE YOUR PASSWORD OUT TO ANYONE
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After being on several other forums, I've seen a few complaints of people trying to scam them out of accounts by pretending to be Steam employees, or a few websites that one of our own members fell victim to.

Although it may seem like common sense, some of these people may be convincing/you were tired/drunk/not thinking straight.

1. Steam employees will never ask you for your password. Even if the servers have crashed, hackers have invaded the site, and the Terrorists are planting the bomb at bombsite C, they will not need to ask you for your password. Do not give it out to anyone claiming to be a steam employee, no matter how they attempt to reach you.
2. There are several websites who look JUST like Steam, and have almost the same address. Everytime you log onto steam through the website, make sure you are logging on to steampowered.com. Any other site is phony-baloney
3. Report it to steam! They can't catch it if they don't know about it!
4. Use common sense. Don't download a "steam patch" through some third party website, or something like that
5. If you can, don't have your ingame name your log in name. While we don't like to have name changes in our clan, if you're an e, try to change it. Leaving your Ingame name as your log in name just gives scammers one less step they have to take to getting into your account
6. Try not to go onto steam at public computers, as the computer may save the information.
   

Follow these steps, and we will make sure your account is always yours, and yours alone.

 

[Ma$termind]

Good advise there, AWP... You would think that would be common sense stuff, but it's always good to get a friendly reminder.

 

[Caval1er]

The good phishing site that was mentioned is probably what gets most people. It looks like steampowered, sounds like steampowered, and tastes like steampowered but has a different URL. I think the #1 thing to do is always check the URL.

 

[AWPerator]

The good phishing site that was mentioned is probably what gets most people. It looks like steampowered, sounds like steampowered, and tastes like steampowered but has a different URL. I think the #1 thing to do is always check the URL.

Most of the time, it is steampowered, copied and pasted exactly so everything looks the same. The only difference is the log in doesn't send it to to steams servers!

 

[sokO]

I hate threads like these. I hate people who complain of being scammed/hacked.

 

[WhiteSoxFan5622]

great post!

 

[Caval1er]

I hate threads like these. I hate people who complain of being scammed/hacked.

Did you even read the post?

 

[Homie Q]

Thanks for the warning...however there is always people out there readily willing to be scammed, and well they kinda should be scammed just so that they learn the hard way, which is always the best way. I got scammed on craigslist when someone sold me a broken router, and well that taught me to inspect and fully test every product i buy off of there, so just be careful and you can never be too safe that is the best way to prevent from being scammed.