What to do when you're being phished on Steam

Leandros · 03-24-2007, 05:50 AM

Hi, this is about people trying to phish you for your Steam login. I've had people trying it to me multiple times but I've never been able to turn the tables so I got their info. I tried it extensively once as shown below, but I need some help on perfecting the "hey I'm more part of steam than you are!" strategy. I'm sure we can all learn something to counter these annoying kids. There's a chunk of the log missing where he gives me my info, I'm not sure what happened to it :/.
Anyway, here's the convo.

Quote:

Adm. says:
hello
DEATH TO BISON says:
HI
Adm. says:
ill need to see your steam account
Adm. says:
any virus
DEATH TO BISON says:
it's funny
Adm. says:
can may efect in your computer
Adm. says:
?
DEATH TO BISON says:
I'm part of Valve's steam accounting office and there's no such thing as a virus
DEATH TO BISON says:
and seeing as how I've got your steamid thanks to this conversation
DEATH TO BISON says:
you've got 2 choices
DEATH TO BISON says:
either you buy yourself a new account
DEATH TO BISON says:
as I've already reported you to our database of accounts that need deleting
Adm. says:
?
DEATH TO BISON says:
you are impersonating a valve employee
DEATH TO BISON says:
had you read our terms of service you would know that impersonation and phishing is punishable by deletion of account
DEATH TO BISON says:
which would be a shame seeing as how you seem to have quite a collection of games
Adm. says:
WHAT
DEATH TO BISON says:
?
DEATH TO BISON says:
how do you know your account is not banned
Adm. says:
because my firend hacker telled me
DEATH TO BISON says:
then make him tell you the new info
Adm. says:
he dont want
DEATH TO BISON says:
it's your info
DEATH TO BISON says:
er
DEATH TO BISON says:
account
Adm. says:
i know
Adm. says:
he dont want!!!
Adm. says:
ok??
DEATH TO BISON says:
well if he doesn't want to give it what makes you think it isn't banned
DEATH TO BISON says:
maybe he doesn't want to give it because it's banned
Adm. says:
know
Adm. says:
no
Adm. says:
because he wanna steal me
DEATH TO BISON says:
that issue aside, you need to consider the fact that losing one isn't as bad as losing this one as well
Adm. says:
yeah so wat
DEATH TO BISON says:
if you do not give me your login info for the account you are on now, this account will be deleted at 12PM Western Time
Adm. says:
and password?
DEATH TO BISON says:
all of it
Adm. says:
no way
Adm. says:
i wanna
Adm. says:
talk with the chief
Adm. says:
the boss
Adm. says:
BOSS OF STEAM
DEATH TO BISON says:
that would be gabe newell
DEATH TO BISON says:
but seeing as how it's 9PM
DEATH TO BISON says:
you can't
Adm. says:
SHOW ME EVIDENDE
DEATH TO BISON says:
as he's at home
DEATH TO BISON says:
what evidence
DEATH TO BISON says:
?
Adm. says:
of ure steam
DEATH TO BISON says:
my steam what?
Adm. says:
that
Adm. says:
ur steam support
DEATH TO BISON says:
I'm not a part of steam support
DEATH TO BISON says:
I'm one of their offshore managers
DEATH TO BISON says:
I'm part of their european branch
Adm. says:
so
Adm. says:
why should i give u info
Adm. says:
recover my account
Adm. says:
to see if its true
DEATH TO BISON says:
I cannot recover your account as that is not up to me
Adm. says:
so up to who
DEATH TO BISON says:
that's up to support
DEATH TO BISON says:
if you bought the games retail and have the CD-keys still, you can send them to steam to have the stolen account deactivated
DEATH TO BISON says:
so you can put the CD-keys on your current account
Adm. says:
i dont have the cd key
Adm. says:
can u borrow ur account
Adm. says:
and then recover or just show evidence!
DEATH TO BISON says:
Why would I borrow my own account
Adm. says:
and then
Adm. says:
recover
DEATH TO BISON says:
What do you mean?
Adm. says:
like such a steam worker
Adm. says:
recover it
DEATH TO BISON says:
why would I recover my own account?
DEATH TO BISON says:
it's not deactivated or stolen...
Adm. says:
to see
Adm. says:
if its true
Adm. says:
ill not give info. untill evidence
Adm. says:
and the steam boss would understand it
Adm. says:
do you play runescape?
DEATH TO BISON says:
I'm afraid the only games I play are on Steam
DEATH TO BISON says:
I don't have time for anything else
DEATH TO BISON says:
unless you hand over your info, your account will be purged within hours and there's nothing you can do about it as it happens a lot
DEATH TO BISON says:
one case will not be paid attention to
DEATH TO BISON says:
I can remove your account from the "to-be-purged" list but only with your login info as the steamids are translated into accounts
DEATH TO BISON says:
so, in order to remove you from the list, I need all your info
DEATH TO BISON says:
so do you want lose 2 accounts or just the one?
DEATH TO BISON says:
by the way, I can tell you now that impersonating a valve employee on the server you are on will get you banned from a very large network of gameservers
Never tell your password to anyone.

uBeR · 03-24-2007, 05:51 AM

Yeah, didn't someone already post this?

Leandros · 03-24-2007, 05:52 AM

This is not the convo, this is me asking for pointers. It'd help if you actually read anything aside from the title :)))

uBeR · 03-24-2007, 06:04 AM

tl;dr

Spiderm4N · 03-25-2007, 05:31 AM

penis

Skanky Butterpuss · 03-25-2007, 06:12 AM

never happened to me, but i would just play along and give them fake info and then say "gee, thanks for helping!

nice try, you fucking idiot."

Agret · 03-25-2007, 09:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leandros

This is not the convo, this is me asking for pointers. It'd help if you actually read anything aside from the title

))

I read it and I read the convo, a pointer would be to ignore them and just block them from contacting you. But if you really want to scam them you can probably convince them to run a trojan (in this example just say it's a runescape hack or something) and then just keylog their steam password and steal the cd keys for the rest of their games from registry, although that's quite illegal so I wouldn't recommend it

03-24-2007, 05:51 AM	#2
uBeR Not ****** Yet D&A Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	Yeah, didn't someone already post this?

03-24-2007, 05:52 AM	#3
Leandros Cool Cat Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Dutchelandae Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	This is not the convo, this is me asking for pointers. It'd help if you actually read anything aside from the title :)))

03-24-2007, 06:04 AM	#4
uBeR Not ****** Yet D&A Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	tl;dr

03-25-2007, 05:31 AM	#5
Spiderm4N Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Brazil Posts Rated Helpful 5 Times	penis

03-25-2007, 06:12 AM	#6
Skanky Butterpuss Beware the Hammer D&A Member Fortress Forever Staff Join Date: Mar 2007 Class/Position: Sabotaging your shit. Affiliations: :}\|, mimic, /KBN/ Posts Rated Helpful 0 Times	never happened to me, but i would just play along and give them fake info and then say "gee, thanks for helping! nice try, you fucking idiot."

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