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michelle1788
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Posted: Sep 7, 2009, 13:44:45
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Hi Dazzle, Nik had his account stolen last night and the guy who has it now is sending the same message out to nearly everyone on his friends list. Please dont anyone go to the page as it is a fake remake of steam.

No Prisoners
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Posted: Sep 7, 2009, 13:46:23
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any one on my frnds list remove me plez do not wont this !!!!!!! bloody jurk get your accounts if i get my acoount bk will let you guys know it me and not this guy

Raven
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Posted: Sep 8, 2009, 17:46:48
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Sigh....and again......:mad1:

Steam is like the bank...every time you log in it tells you that a) steam will never ask you for your user passwords and b) never to divulge them.....

Meh....never mind...hopefully you can sort it out....if not, learn from this when you buy your next one.

No Prisoners
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Posted: Sep 9, 2009, 08:15:47
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there would be no nexet one and i got it back thank god

dburt01
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Posted: Sep 9, 2009, 09:37:58
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Amazing. Even after the initial warnings of "never tell your password to anyone", if you were silly enough to go on and actually type your password into your steam chat window, it actually then puts up a warning message in a pop up window saying "are you sure you wanna send your password dude!?" or something to that effect... still don't understand why people fall for this?! Think!

cpnichol
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Posted: Sep 9, 2009, 12:40:38
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It's not like someone just says "can I have your user name and password please?".

You do get a warning when you click on links from chat boxes that say "not a Steam website.... don't enter your user name or pass or you could lose your account". The problem is people have ignored that box so many times it doesn't even register after a while, this is what the phishers rely on.

Once you've clicked the link it will mostly be a fairly convincing mock up of a steam page offering you something for nothing. The clues are usually in spellings, grammar and the web address. Now Steam may never message you asking for user and pass, but they do ask you to log in.

The reason people fall for these is they automatically ignore the "not a steam website" warning, miss the little differences and just log in as they would at Steam.

No Prisoners
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Posted: Sep 9, 2009, 13:33:18
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Quote from dburt01:
Amazing. Even after the initial warnings of "never tell your password to anyone", if you were silly enough to go on and actually type your password into your steam chat window, it actually then puts up a warning message in a pop up window saying "are you sure you wanna send your password dude!?" or something to that effect... still don't understand why people fall for this?! Think!


it was not over steam frnd that he got my info and for you guys out there be carefull coz the page that got my info was a copy off steam main page so make sure that the address is the steam address and not a fony one

and no i did not get any warning that it was not a steam web site
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