Key logger!

[The Yeti]

I would like to warn everybody that this morning someone tried to steal my steam account! Sadly, I forgot this person's steam name (only one of my mistakes.) However the message went something like "Hey check this out! This guy all ready has L4D2!!! check out the rest of his stuff at [blahblahblah fake steam community page.]" (I will not supply the actual link.) When you click this link it brings you to the steam community log in, or well, a fake one rather. If you type in your user name and password (like stupid me) this person can view this information and then steal your steam account.

Luckily I'm not as stupid as I am just tired. (I've been sick for 2 days, and haven't had much sleep which is the reason I made those crucial mistakes.) I was able to change my password in time and prevent him from stealing my account.

This person messaged my entire steam group (non-eGO.)

Please be aware of this in order to protect your account.

Be safe,
The Yeti
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[Un4Gvn]

Thanks for keep our community up to date. I wish that we could find these ppl and put them in a "stocks" and throw rotten vegetables at them.

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Yeah thanks man, I'm a real gullible person so I'd probably fall for something like that... :blushing: I blame me mum for that gene...
Hey isn't there a tab in steam for your history, like notices that have been sent to you or recent friends that you accepted? Maybe you can check that and try to get a Steam ID, of course if it worked on someone else he might be using their account. Well thanks again for the info Yeti :thumbup: :biggrin:

 

[gen-ig]

Good job catching that in time, sometimes its hard to tell what is or is not a keylogger.

 

[Guile]

you should always check the link each time you log into something

 

[Ice hearted killer]

too close yeti. thanks for the heads up

 

[Ratfire]

Nice reaction time, no harm done if you're able to get your account back.

 

[NiMiK]

Thanks for the notice Yeti. People like that are SCUMB!!! You should be able to check history of players while you're still in that server. It's good that you recovered your account though.

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Umm.. Wait you were in servers? I thought you were just in steam community... :huh: :confused1:

 

[Kill Me]

Yeah thanks man, I'm a real gullible person so I'd probably fall for something like that... :blushing: I blame me mum for that gene...
Hey isn't there a tab in steam for your history, like notices that have been sent to you or recent friends that you accepted? Maybe you can check that and try to get a Steam ID, of course if it worked on someone else he might be using their account. Well thanks again for the info Yeti :thumbup: :biggrin:

I'd throw rotten fruit

Good job on not getting your account stolen!

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Well seeing as how my roommates don't like to clean out their left-overs or their 3 month old eggs, I'd throw those. :thumbup: Oh and some spoiled milk **gags** Wow I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.... :mellow: :glare:

 

[The Yeti]

No, there is no history for chat on steam, as far as my knowledge goes. I wasn't in server. I just hopped on my pc this morning and found "so-and-so is requesting to start a chat with you" It said he was a member of one of my steam groups, but when I went to check, he had all ready left the group.

anyway, double, triple check the URL before you ever enter a password. (As Guile mentioned) This particular one brought me to a ".tk" and right when I saw that I knew I was in trouble.

 

[PIMP DADDY SMURF]

Oh okay I thought he sent you a notification that L4D was out so that is why you clicked it to see... If that was the case then you'd have that in your history of that particular notification.

 

[air_nith]

here was another attempt on another eGO member: http://edgegamers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=91468

great reaction yeti

 

[_Me_]

something similar happened to me not long ago. someone somehow got their hands on my premium rapidshare account and my gmail account. it wasn't nice. i kind of felt violated. lucky i got the rapidshare back and was untouched. since then ive been very very paranoid when on the net

 

[Bloodcypher]

yeti your supposed to hulk smash the guy through a snowbank lol

 

[The Yeti]

lol EYE SMASH!

 

[a pet rock]

Not technically a key logger, but still a load of scumbaggery. Good thing you still have your account, it'd be really bad if he managed to get in server and cause a lot of problems with your admin.

Stay vigilant!

 

[Wallrat]

I wish that we could find these ppl and put them in a "stocks" and throw rotten vegetables at them.

I'd throw rotten fruit

What's with all this 'soft mushy' fruit or vegetables? Wouldn't you want something nice and firm? Like a brick? :chair:

 

[Drunkenfetus]

Just comes to show never give out your user and password for anything!