We are seeing a large increase recently in succesful phishing attempts leading to entire inventories being stolen. Please be careful and look out for users:

- Asking you to verify items, check if "depositable on x website", or use a middleman
- Stating they've reported you, worried you'll be banned, or need to confirm something with a steam admin
- Asking you to vote for their team
- Asking you to play with them on FACEIT, or a tournament, unprompted

It is generally a good idea not to follow links sent to you over steam chat / discord, but if anyone is asking you any of the above, BLOCK THEM and REPORT them to steam.

Never(!) put your username/password into a website with a steam login. Always open https://steamcommunity.com/ in a new page yourself and log in there. Then reload the page. If you see a continue button you can safely click it.

This is not limited to steam, there are many scammers impersonating well known trader profiles on discord using the same methods. If you're not sure or something feels off, you can always ask for advice on the backpack.tf forums or discord: https://discord.backpack.tf/

For more info/links you can click here: https://forums.backpack.tf/topic/87510-beware-of-phishing/

(I'm aware this group is dead but there's still 160k users in here so I'm sending out this PSA anyway since some of you probably still trade)