2 people in 2 days have added me saying the exact same thing as you :( didnt click though :)

Originally posted by Shemale:

2 people in 2 days have added me saying the exact same thing as you :( didnt click though :)

Don't worry I didn't click it, I am not stupid :) . Reported to Valve, aparently steamrep doesn't take phishing reports though. It looks as though it is a bot though that typed it, since it looks like "fh_trading_bots" was just ripped from the URL of the group.

Originally posted by Shemale:

2 people in 2 days have added me saying the exact same thing as you :( didnt click though :)

Perhaps an announcement on the group should be made, althouh whoever is doing this is pretty stupid, targetting a trading group is not a good idea since most people in it will be more experienced traders who know what they are going :)

i just got 2 links at the same day.......

Let me explain how it works:

The accounts that add you and send phishing links are actually people that got hacked by the means of those links, and have been turned into "zombie" phishing bots that crawl through popular groups and continue adding people and sending the links in order to continue with the operation. As you can see, they are so poorly made, that they don't even send you the full group name, but an ending of the steam community generic link (fh_trading_bots in this case).

I can't really come up with a solution for that, those spambots ain't even in the actual group. So it's not like I can kick them out or ban them. Unfortunately group members are always public, therefore no matter what I do, they will still be able to reach the members regardless.

I don't really feel like starting a global panic and scare people away. I've just posted a reminder about that issue in the chatbox so if someone is concerned and looking for an answer if that "giveaway" is real, they will immediately be advised what to do.


For all this of course I blame all those pointless "giveaway" groups who are doing it just to gain more members, and the ongoing "give give give" fever surrounding TF2 and CS:GO as well.

I have pinned this topic as well, so it's easily noticeable.

It's not a person adding you, it's a bot. So of course they dont reply, if they stay there long enough they keep messaging you every day, so just report and block whenever you get another.

This just happened to me, "it's" name was "MoonFox" (STEAM_0:0:60495443
U:1:120990886)

Thtis bots use any name, any picture and any group, thits mean waht thits guys try scamm you send you a link what is a automatic trade with another player, him is going take: Keys, any good item! Look out and wacht profiles, Private Profile, Lvl 0 and Pics very stranges thits mean what the player is a bot.

You know people click those links or get a virus and hackers take their account and send links to people in the victims friend list,Dont report him unless you are truly sure.

Originally posted by Mlg420$ FESTIVE-TIEM:

You know people click those links or get a virus and hackers take their account and send links to people in the victims friend list,Dont report him unless you are truly sure.

Yes, I know that, however once an account has been stolen their is virtually nothing the owner can do, they normally have lost all control to it. You should still report them as otherwise the account will continue to attempt to scam people.

I once clicked and downloaded the file from the link... >_< i got hijacked and lost 450 items

Originally posted by TheMightyMat:

Originally posted by Shemale:

2 people in 2 days have added me saying the exact same thing as you :( didnt click though :)

Don't worry I didn't click it, I am not stupid :) . Reported to Valve, aparently steamrep doesn't take phishing reports though. It looks as though it is a bot though that typed it, since it looks like "fh_trading_bots" was just ripped from the URL of the group.

One day i was stupid enough to do so, i was a year into my steam account, a newbie :)
Then i got messaged with the same thing and then i clicked on it thinking it was legit.
Contained an SCR Virus, it sent a message to all of my friends saying the same thing
most of my friends are still with me, well, mainly all of them are, and the virus disapearred.
and you can also imagine the confusion of the entire thing of when my friends somehow saw i was a scam bot.

So yes...
Dont click on these links :)
For friendship sakes..

Next time, go to something like ieonchrome . com and put the url in there. Then u can safely see it.

I got scammed 7 keys, the scammer blocked me and changed avatar and name ;-;