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[โ€“] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yeah, the second they said something about reporting me by accident and steam banning my IP I knew it was a scammer. Although I suspected it before, as I never had a random person message in in 20 years of using steam.

I had hoped to lure the scammer a little bit further and figure out what they wanted to do, but I got too excited and scared them. very sad

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

They were almost certainly going to tell you that if you didn't act then both of you would get banned then direct you to a fake Steam employee or fake website. It's interesting they randomly messaged you. Normally this relies on being done to friends.