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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Lightning Blue on December 08, 2006, 09:42:02 AM

Title: Those scammers are getting sneakier.
Post by: Lightning Blue on December 08, 2006, 09:42:02 AM

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Dear steam user.
In this time, we ask all of out users to validate their ownership to
ensure that we have no unused accounts, nor empty ones.
Please reply to this email with your account information such as username,
password and email.

Thank you.
VALVe Staff.

Title: Re: Those scammers are getting sneakier.
Post by: GrayDuck on December 08, 2006, 09:59:43 AM

you better reply... who knows WHAT valve will do if you don't get validated!!

Title: Re: Those scammers are getting sneakier.
Post by: GrayDuck on December 08, 2006, 10:00:50 AM

PS what's the reply to email address, I better validate too  ;)

Title: Re: Those scammers are getting sneakier.
Post by: Malevolent on December 08, 2006, 02:45:21 PM

They are getting better, but it is still lacking. It is so annoying how terrible spammers' spelling and grammar are. There is no way anyone should be fooled by them. For example, there are many things that should be capitalized or use alternate punctuation in that email. /odd_rant

Title: Re: Those scammers are getting sneakier.
Post by: Lightning Blue on December 09, 2006, 02:21:09 AM

I might try replying to it later with faked info, from an email created just for it, hmmm.

Title: Re: Those scammers are getting sneakier.
Post by: johnjacobjingle on December 13, 2006, 01:34:15 PM

and yet people still fall for it...

*chuckles*  people sometimes are so thick skulled it's hilarious.

Title: Re: Those scammers are getting sneakier.
Post by: Fewlio on January 07, 2007, 05:13:04 PM

Maybe we should become the lunixmonster scammers and harvest steam accounts!