Steam Accounts Stolen Through Free Games Scam

IceDigger

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Do you like free games?

Click on this link for free Steam games!

MANY Steam accounts are being stolen via an interesting scam involving sending people links for free games. You know a lot of kids love free stuff and click on things without thinking.

“An elaborate scam is underway that pretends to be a free game giveaway site, but instead hacks a user’s Steam account, takes control over it, and then incorporates the new victim into their attack by targeting other players.
The scam works by attackers hacking into Steam accounts and sending messages to the victim’s friends that they can get a free Steam game by going to a site and entering a promo code.”
Bleeping Computer

Friends don’t let friends click on bad links. So stay vigilant folks!
 
Friends don’t let friends click on bad links. So stay vigilant folks!

No matter how many times you repeat this message and no matter how much you think people ought to know better, there simply does not seem to be any fighting the urge to click bad links. Especially if they have some sort of money and/or romance ties.

Our ape brains are hardwired for this ****. I don't think we will ever be able to fight it.
 
The general population just isn't paranoid enough. Links like those would cause warning alarms to go off instantly in my brain. Apparently everyone else just goes WWHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEE and click the ****ing links without any thoughts. No matter how good security gets, the human element will always be the Achilles' Heel.
 
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