DrToxic Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 (edited) Firstly, I can't stand people who are out there to make trouble for everyone else. If you think about it, each person who (in my opinion, stupidly) clicks on links sent via bots ultimately lose out on their entire steam library. Call me old fashioned, but the ol' trick of "Reading it backwards" works for me every time. The amount of times I've seen people get fooled with links that look like official links to large trusted websites. Not only this, but I have a tendancy to ask about the link. "What is this link? Where does it take me? what does it do? Who ARE you?"... A bot won't reply, or if it does, I doubt it'll have the Artificial Inteligence to distinguish between multiple questions in one message, and it will definitely not be able to tell you something personal about the person the message is supposed to have come from. "I'm your (personal details) friend from (country/state/provinence).. why'd you ask?". This trick works rather well with all bots that send phishing links to people via (back in the day) MSN, Skype and other instant messaging protocols. Edited December 9, 2014 by DrToxic 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heemse Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Well written above sir. I get your statement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krutel Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Somehow the bot added me as a friend without me accepting it?? also another scam is. ''Hey I took a screenshot of you the other day check it out'' {link here} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnoxVegas Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Thanks for this, I actually got a message from someone on my friends list the other day with a link, they don't normally send me things so I knew right away it was something like this. The image at the end was different though. http://beam.pro/KnoxVegas http://twitch.tv/knoxvegas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartD Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Glad that people are taking this warning seriously, hopefully none of the ETS2MP community have fallen to this sort of virus / scamming system. STVTC Founder & Management / TruckNet Developer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorKowallsky Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I didn't got any messages like this, I don't know why, probably because I'm the most time offline. 1 W internecie nie ma ludzi starszych i młodszych, W internecie są ludzie głupsi i mądrzejsi Retired Team Member since 01.02.2020 WarMaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrythxd Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 There seems to be a new link going around, the link starts with 'drive.google'. But the end of the link is different from the real Google Drive links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wezz Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 There is also a virus going around Steam telling you that an "old friend" wants you to add them, there is a link included so DO NOT click the link. Signature removed by Donald Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konfig0 Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Today I got one on my profile, saying: Hey, you need this? [link] I am not home so cant take any screenshot, but I will contact this dude for sure as he has also ets2.. I wonder if you look both ways when you cross my mind.. Be slow to critize, be fast to appreciate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Friend got hacked, kindly he put his name as this so I wouldn't click it! I won't put the URL, but it was disguised as google with a .png ending, don't click on random images from stuff that looks to be fake! DontClickTheLinkImBeingHacked: WTF????? ****************.com/**************** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtStian Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Thanks for letting me know StuartD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxOMax Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Thanks for the warning Tag Line: Want to Have fun, join Trucking World at ETS2, ATS and TruckersMP. Respected Member of the Arab Community and TMPFormer: Forum Moderator, Support Team & Game Moderator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrythxd Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Quick tip to everybody, set your profile comments to friends only/private. The phishing bots are now attacking public profile comments with 10+ comments including the same text and the same phishing link :/ You can set them to friends only/private by going to your profile - clicking on 'Edit Profile' - clicking on 'My Privacy Settings' and then by choosing the friends only/private option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charcoal Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I'm glad I'm set to appear offline all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviet Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 for this kinda viruses, keyloggers etc . use an antimalware program. some antivirus programs dont see this kinda thing at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Barto Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Guys, be careful. There is another one going on in Steam lately... Retired Team Member // Report // Ban appeal // Ingame rules // Support // Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Barto Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Aaand again... Leaving the first part of the links visible so that if you see it, recognise it and don't open it. Retired Team Member // Report // Ban appeal // Ingame rules // Support // Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartD Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 To be honest I recommend not clicking anything that comes through your steam or skype, unless you know exactly who the person that is sending it to you is. STVTC Founder & Management / TruckNet Developer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrythxd Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 unless you know exactly who the person that is sending it to you is. I would still be careful, you never know if one of your close friends account has been hijacked by the phishers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[TPH] SP Gaming Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 Thank's For The Warning Sir. It's a SPAM message , like happens in Facebook Add me on Steam Follow Me on Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles! Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Just a heads up if anyone doesn't know this already, do not even click the link. Clicking the link itself can result in the webpage grabbing your cache/cookies meaning your passwords are gone anyway. I recommend not accepting invites from anyone you don't know, OR do not accept any from Private or level 0 Steam accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Miles: technically not possible unless there's quite a major bug in any of the major browsers (which there are no CVEs about). Please stop spreading crap like cache or cookie grabbing sites, since all browsers have protection against that, there was a couple of bugs back in the late 90s, but since there's been few of those kinds of bugs and if there have been it's mostly been because in-experienced people have rolled their own browser engine, not because a browser most people use have a bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
videogamer Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 if i'm unsure of a link sent to me i'll google the link before clicking on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Fizzlesticks Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Is old story bro im getting more then 10 15in a day just block them dont clik on the link Thanks Admins for kicking/banning all of the rammers/blockers/trolls who ruin this game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyMudkip Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I decided to run this on a virtual machine. I don't have that virtual machine anymore. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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