Every day, strangers try to add me as friends.
Absolutely everyone has a Steam level of about 10.
They add me when I play Dota 2.
They all have hours in Dota, but there aren't any games on their accounts.
Who are they and why are they trying to add me as a friend?
Help.
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d3str0y3r 11 月 5 日 下午 11:36 
引用自 Гойдаслав
Absolutely everyone has a Steam level of about 10.
They add me when I play Dota 2.
They all have hours in Dota, but there aren't any games on their accounts.
Who are they and why are they trying to add me as a friend?
Help.

My guess.... scammers.

However i can't read he minds of the one's adding you, so i cannot tell you for sure one way or another.
ペンギン 11 月 5 日 下午 11:48 
I assume that they are lured by your 637 Dota items. I would ignore the requests.

If you really want to know, accept a request to test.

- Person doesn't saying anything? Delete
- Strange trading offer? Delete
- Suspicious behavior? (e.g. vote for team, click on this awesome link, gift card for you or you were reported")

Should it happen every day (if you don't play Dota), it could also be that it's coming from someone on your friends list.

Try it out for a longer period with an inventory that is locked for outsiders. I would also hide the friends list, as scammers comb through the lists for more victims.
最后由 ペンギン 编辑于; 11 月 5 日 下午 11:53
Crazy Tiger 11 月 6 日 上午 1:12 
引用自 ペンギン
I assume that they are lured by your 637 Dota items. I would ignore the requests.
This.

You have an open invontory, OP. Makes you special.
JacquesPatat 11 月 6 日 上午 1:28 
Seeing its either scammers who wants to scam you, or people who wants to trade with you. Either ignore them or set your profile to private
最后由 JacquesPatat 编辑于; 11 月 6 日 上午 1:28
Go Fish 11 月 6 日 上午 1:44 
This can be part of (step 1) of a newfangled scam scheme dominating our (one with you ) region currently, mainly due to rampan persona info teft - links between e-mail and Steam account exposed.

0. Someone, somewhere, on some 3rd party platform, uses your profile as a referral as a trader or alternative "main" user profile, claiming it's theirs. Dota, CS2 and other MOBa are usually source of infomation for these.
1. Someone else add you as friend.
2. The second person (another scammer) claim to perform transaction of paying to the "trader" and claims you're the scammer.
3. They report you on that platform, so "linked accounts" are being banned there. Or they claim that you're reported and banned. You might even get e-mail (real or fake) about that ban.
4. They also claim that a Steam admin contacted them and said you're gong to be banned from Steam (that never would happen based on _something_ happening in 3rd party system).
5. A fake support guy contacts you in Steam (that also newer would happen - Steam mod don't do that).
6. Various strategies for phishing yur account information will follow.

Steps 2-4 are psychological warfare, intended to set you up in panicking mindset so you wouldstop thinking ahead during step 6.

One should remember:
1. Friends usually can see more about your account than anyone else.
2. Some games played hint at fact that you may own certain marketable items.
3. Steam doesn't ban users based on reports from 3rd party, only based pon information gained from monitorign Steam account actions and IM content.
4. Steam admins never contact you in Steam messages
5. Steam admins never contact anyone in regard of actions taken against someone's else account
5. To report someone doing something suspicious about your Steam account, use support forms on Steam website or through Support menu item in client.
Jaunitta 🌸 11 月 6 日 上午 3:30 
I'm also seeing this lately and my inventory is always hidden, just ignore op. We dont know them so are not friends.
I feel its a new wave of generation of age to have an account and are are fishing for some silly fun. I have spent a long time helping out on Steam so my name maybe recognized.
But I either wait till trhey go offline then ignore them move on.
Go Fish 11 月 6 日 上午 8:31 
引用自 Jaunitta 🌸
I'm also seeing this lately and my inventory is always hidden,
Thing is, some games have trading functions and that exposes related content, also, I think there are some sources of mining data. *shrugs* But its good idea to hide it.
Frogstophe 11 月 6 日 上午 11:44 
Set your inventory to private.

That will probably turn away a few random invites, at least.
I get a lot of friend requests also around level 10 usally exactly level 10 or 11 but instead of Dota 2 always Couner Strike 2, probally because I never played Dota 2, but they leave comments on my profile saying like example +Rep brilliant stragetist or +Rep great player and send me a friend request at the same time I accepted some and they messaged me a scam I knew they were scamming so I didin't do what they told me to do like telling me to click on links they sent me and vote for their team on a website despite that I never even played with them and I haven't played Counter Strike 2 since 2021 when it was called CS:GO. I don't get so much of this now but I get a lot of random friend requests from people who haven't commented on my profile these things I do not know if they also send the scam messages because I didn't accept their friend requests. Also my inventory is public and I heard that is why I get a lot of scammers commenting on my profile.
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