The victim would end up getting a virus and loosing his inventory or even his personal data. Most of them are spam bots.

Try to don't add anyone who has private profile or Level profile. This will increase your security. Do not click any links from someone who you do not know in person.

One of the oldest scamming methods is called "Quickswitching". A few seconds before the victim agrees to the trade, he exchanges the desired skin for a similar looking, but worse one.

If done quickly, the victim only had a very slight time window to react. Luckily this trade doesnt work any longer, since everyone has some sort of confirmation step enabled.

For example they could swap out a skin with a quality of factory new with a battle scared version with less value. Always check the chat for item swaps and hover your mouse over the items to check if they are the ones agreed on.

Take your time when trading. This scam is most common. Scammer needs only to send trade offer. For usually cases trade offer contains text about you will get XXX amount of money for this item.

If you refuse the trade, the money will be refunded to the buyer. Pay: All rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owner.

This is just an example, the text varies from time to time:. This is very easy to avoid. Scammers will post download links on Facebook, Youtube, Steam etc.

This way they will get access to your Steam credentials, credit card information, email login etc. In this scam, a person will try to convince you that he is a Valve employee or another staff member.

He will then try to trick you into giving him items in one way or another. They will also never threaten to punish users for refusing to make trades or to click on links.

The only way of getting support, is through Steam support website. For Example:. A classic scam, that almost everyone knows nowadays. The scammer and his victim both agree on a trade, usually including steam wallet codes or something similar.

To make sure everyone gets what he was promised, the scammer suggests taking a middleman, or asks his victim to choose a trusted friend as a middleman.

They can be very advanced and hard to spot, but with a few precautions you will be pretty safe. The scammer has created a fake website, which looks exactly like the Steam login.

He will then contact you with a message like this:. It could be a message like this, but it could also be a message on Facebook, email, whatever.

The point is they will send you a link you have to click which sends you to a fake website. Again, it will be a fake website and it will send your login information to the scammer.

Sometimes it is even more obvious, nonetheless people actually fall for this. Here is an example of a promise for free Steam games:.

Always check the URL to see if your on a official domain. Their response was:. You have been exposed to wagering because suspicious activity has been noticed on your account.

In this case, we cannot help you. You need to follow the instructions received and place bets. If you still have questions, contact us again.

Only to be told this time in broken English:. Sorry, but as we said, the only way out of this situation is for you to bets. Marking it as paid does not mean a transaction has taken place, but it will show up to the seller as though one has been made.

Seller thinks that he has been paid. Seller then trades item with scammer. What the seller failed to notice is that his Paypal balance has not changed, so he has not actually been paid.

Result is that the scammer has received an item from the seller and the seller did not receive payment. After a trade that takes place partially outside Steam has been agreed to, a middleman needs to be chosen.

The scammer will suggest a trusted middleman that checks out correctly on SteamRep. However, once the victim agrees to the middleman a fake account pretending to be that middleman adds the victim.

Once the unaware victim completes their side of the transaction, believing that they are using a trusted middleman, both the scammer and accomplice will delete and block them while keeping the stolen goods.

Make sure you personally add the middleman yourself, and independently verify the identity of the person who added you using the instructions above look up both accounts on SteamRep and compare.

Another way hackers want to scam you is by asking you to upload your SSFN file to their fake steamcommunity site. Once you upload the file which you should not do , the hacker will be able to log into your account which you have entered in the login option and also put the SSFN file in his folder and not get the Steam Guard protection.

This rarely happens, but if it ever happens this is how it will most likely go:. The guy who added you will do everything to be nice to you: offer you some items for free, play matches with you, etc….

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