[Master]

I was contacted by someone (a bot) named Erüdo. He seemed legit at first, I play a csgo match with him, so I accepted his friend request. I saw Erüdo send me a message with a link to a file called Image_xxx.scr. I quickly looked up scams and such that can be seen on Steam, and I became aware of phishing, thanks to an article linked.

If I opened this file, the following tasks would have been performed:

• Retrieves the current session ID of my Steam user account.
  
• Gains access to my’s inventory / backpack.
  
• Saves items onto an “offer list” for selling.
  
• Displays an image in order to make me believe that what I actually opened is indeed an image file and not an actual application
  

I unfriend him and report it to Steam.

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[Inori]

Holy shit... Never seen that before. Boosting the hell out of this.

OT: Congrats on silver

[Oni]

Sketchy. Will keep an eye out.

[ねこまっしぐら]

You actually downloaded and opened a file from somebody on Steam? Shake my head, that's probably the oldest trick in the e-book. Especially with those scr files. I accidentally got my boy @Chromium one of those bad boys one time. For some reason, bots add me every day. They tryna get me to go onto their links and what not.

[ねこまっしぐら]

There is a lot of different bots. Some will randomly add you and automatic give you a link. Most of the time they have completely private profile and only one name change.
There is also the try hards as you mentioned OP.

Keep an eye out.

I know right? I'm to the point to where I see a private profile try to add me and just decline it. I don't even add them and ask what's up.

[Nyx]

I get these all of the time. Very annoying. Another annoying one is a bot that gets names from traders on csgolounge.com and adds them. It gets really annoying when I'm trying to do a legit trade.

[Brynn]

I've never gotten anything like this before, but I'll keep my eye out...I still don't know why soo many people still fall for this crap, oh well, I guess we'll all be here watching the digital version of natural selection take its course.

[ねこまっしぐら]

I've never gotten anything like this before, but I'll keep my eye out...I still don't know why soo many people still fall for this crap, oh well, I guess we'll all be here watching the digital version of natural selection take its course.

I have that game on Steam.

[Lysergide]

Wow, good to know the exact mechanic of that scam.

[Customer]

They are coming up with great scams nowadays.

Glad they didn't get me!