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A thread to post and discuss new ways people are attempting to hack STEAM accounts.
OK, before i start i want to say i have not yet fallen for a account hack. In the past few weeks two of my friends have almost lost their accounts. Luckly, both times i was online and avaliable to help them. One of my friends acctualy lost his account, had it sold to someone, and got it back.I dont know if your aware of it or not, but there are people out there who make a lot of money hacking and selling STEAM accounts. There are several ways they attempt this, and i intend to go over the main 2 in hopes that you will have a ready reply when its your turn.Mean huh? But whats the average steam user to do? Know that if you give the person claiming to work for steam you info you will most likely never get on your account again. NEVER give anyone your account name or/and password. If you are contacted by a person namer 'VAC Moderator' tell them to F#CK off. Or, knowing they are scamers, mess with them. Convince them that you work at steam and that you are reporting them to the police, or what ever.
Attempt Style 2: get ALL GAMES FREE
This type of hack is getting more common, but the basics are the same. They want your user name and your password. Some even have a website to make the scam seem real. some claim that they done need your info, just DL and install. LOL, i even saw on that said "This is not a scam." Awww how nice, glad to hear that.
This is a classic example of the GET ALL GAMES FREE scam. Dont do it, one of my friends did and never got his account back. Notice that they ask for yor account name and password, just like the first style. Also, notice that they ask for you to have at least one game installed already. This makes your account sellable.
Another good example of this type of scam. Notice that once again they ask for your name/pass. By asking for it in code, they are trying to make the scam sound real. Its not.
This is a different way to do the same thing. Its a little more crafty than the others, it shows itself as a program that gets the games for you, but what its really DLing is Trogens and virus infested files. I just though i should throw this type in too. Note that what these programs do is let a few people, maybe 1 in 1000 actually DL the games. This lucky person will run around bragging ang get all their friends to DL it... and guess what? Virus.
OK, now your warned. Dont do it. Never give away your password or your user name. Never fall for the free games scam. And, if you ever meet the VAC Moderator... Tell him to suck your balls.
you'd be supprized. the reason i made this is because some ass tryed the first type on one of my friends earlyer today. He almost fell for it.
They make it sound really convincing, and pull the colored text trick in steam chat to seem real
My steam got hijacked once. Problem was, it was from a friend I actually trusted. He said it was a wallpaper. I downloaded it, ye PNG use it BAMM shut down. :(
Report to Valve > Pass reset > Steam Back :D
I never knew about this, it seems if you know how to approach the subject correctly then a lot of stupid people would fall for it. I think I might have a go at it later for lulz.
Posted by Bopper
I never knew about this, it seems if you know how to approach the subject correctly then a lot of stupid people would fall for it. I think I might have a go at it later for lulz.
=D thats the reason i left out a key detail for type one.
unforunetly this usually leads to loseing your accout to steam. THEY r the real bad guys here lolz
Haha yea some douche tried it on me actually a couple people have i laughed then went offline
i guess theres a way to hack into servers and everything now and take control of admin it actually happend to my servers a little while ago by some fucker named TD|Ducky
You think the people stupid enough to e-mail you their account login information, are smart enough to report the e-mail the sent their login information to, to steam?
Posted by Bopper
You think the people stupid enough to e-mail you their account login information, are smart enough to report the e-mail the sent their login information to, to steam?
of couse not why would they ever do that
that would be insane
Just yesterday some goofball added me under the name "Steamgamegiveaway" and he gave me a really nice alphabetical ordered list of all the games on steam (i really commend him for taking the time on that one) but he said to pick a game and then give me my password and username...i said im going to fuck your ass with a knife if you dont stop typing bullshit to me then he just logged out really fast.
Why do people fall for it? Steam never contacts over chat. Only e-mail. Even if Steam DID contact over chat nobody should listen to them because it's their rules that they can't contact by chat so they'd be violating their own rules.
My basic advice, don't trust tinyurls or any obscure links (basically any URL with an unclear title that's nothing like youtube.com or comicweb.com etc.).
What a bunch of douchefaggots, i emailed one of them saying the following:
TO: steamsupporthelp@live.com
&%credit%&
%%"credit failure"%%
"\\server%help\return"
/allow%resale/YOUR A DOUCHEBAG/
\account%id="GO SUCK A DICK"
\account%pw="HAHA YOULL HAVE TO TRY HARDER ASS HOLE HAHA LOLOL PWNT"
\return&\ksh
\end
"
lo, u guys try it, but dont use your steam email, or hell probably hack it :P
I LOVE when they use the first method (seen it before), because I always respond with a good "fuck you" as my password :D
The funny part is that they might be actually fall for it, lol.
Posted by AsianBorat
I LOVE when they use the first method (seen it before), because I always respond with a good "fuck you" as my password :D
The funny part is that they might be actually fall for it, lol.
oh god, i hope they do, or better, even, i hope they RESPOND saying it wasnt real and i hope they threaten to terminate my account!! those will be lulz of pure EPICNESS!!
I cant believe people would fall for this.
Valve isnt stupid, if he quit, they would have taken his rights away.
Lol, like they even fucking give rights.
Posted by ninjaPANDA
oh god, i hope they do, or better, even, i hope they RESPOND saying it wasnt real and i hope they threaten to terminate my account!! those will be lulz of pure EPICNESS!!
DUDE if they do save the chat and post it here. LOLz need to be share'd!!1
Posted by ninjaPANDA
oh god, i hope they do, or better, even, i hope they RESPOND saying it wasnt real and i hope they threaten to terminate my account!! those will be lulz of pure EPICNESS!!
DUDE if they do save the chat and post it here. LOLz need to be share'd!!1
Haha, one time one guy started that BS talking to me on STEAM and I said "No way? I work at the head offices..... you do to?" "Wait a minute, is this Greg?" "Haha, I got the promotion, I now have that super sexy corner office......... cubical. But still, better then your POS cubical."
He stopped talking.
They're Not getting hacked, it's fools falling for the so called "steam moderators" and even when steam sticks a warning in every single chat window they still fall for it, so personally to those who fell for it, you deserve everything you get. go ahead and bitch at me for saying it or thumb me down, whatever but if your going to bitch do it in my profile so I can go ahead and block you.
Posted by Xaoc
They're Not getting hacked, it's fools falling for the so called "steam moderators" and even when steam sticks a warning in every single chat window they still fall for it, so personally to those who fell for it, you deserve everything you get. go ahead and bitch at me for saying it or thumb me down, whatever but if your going to bitch do it in my profile so I can go ahead and block you.
Well, SOME people are technologicaly retarded.
"cough" a couple of my friends "cough"
Posted by Ben-Hur
They aren't really "hacking" if they're preying on people's stupidity.
But why must those with "stupidity" (major cough) be punished??? Musn't we help them NOT be so gullible when it comes to this type of stuff?
Kindergarten students can understand the idea of "NEVER GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE". If you're dumb enough to fall for a SCAM (not a hack) like these then I really have very little sympathy for you.
All you needed in this was a simple "Don't give out your password".
And for the retards, "LOL@U".
But anyway, I suppose it is a bit informative......maybe.
Posted by Ben-Hur
They aren't really "hacking" if they're preying on people's stupidity.
But why must those with "stupidity" (major cough) be punished??? Musn't we help them NOT be so gullible when it comes to this type of stuff?
Kindergarten students can understand the idea of "NEVER GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE". If you're dumb enough to fall for a SCAM (not a hack) like these then I really have very little sympathy for you.
By "major cough" I wasn't exactly referring to myself :P It's just that I don't feel that it is right for hackers to PROFIT from other's stupidity.
Posted by AsianBorat
By "major cough" I wasn't exactly referring to myself :P It's just that I don't feel that it is right for hackers to PROFIT from other's stupidity.
Like I said, they aren't hackers, they're scam artists who bilk idiots out of their accounts. They're hackers when they maliciously gain access to the accounts through use of software or hardware exploitation.
This thread annoys me. It acts like account hijacks are a new phenomenon. Far from it. They've been doing shit like this for years, and not just games.
Posted by Ben-Hur
They aren't really "hacking" if they're preying on people's stupidity.
But why must those with "stupidity" (major cough) be punished??? Musn't we help them NOT be so gullible when it comes to this type of stuff?
actually they deserve to get there accounts pulled off them and also it teaches some valuable lessons in life. but anyways, one less retard on css imho.
Posted by Xaoc
They're Not getting hacked, it's fools falling for the so called "steam moderators" and even when steam sticks a warning in every single chat window they still fall for it, so personally to those who fell for it, you deserve everything you get. go ahead and bitch at me for saying it or thumb me down, whatever but if your going to bitch do it in my profile so I can go ahead and block you.
I think we all know that it's not literally hacking. XD It's just a term used to describe it. Just sayin'. :3
I love how when people do the IM thing called. vALVE employee or something. If you have steam it doesn't necessarily mean you own any valve games at all. The people who they scam are damn stupid but the scammers aren't too smart themselves 9 times out of 10.
Well i was just send a message from someone on my firends list...
5:16 PM - R.I.P KARAS: i get free games steam now , this is the website
http://www.steampowered-freegames.net.ms/
5:17 PM - [Ŧķ] Flash Magnet: yea ok
R.I.P KARAS is now Offline.
idk what thats about but i think he might ahve got his account hacked