Scam, adding you to promote a new site

[Mr Furley]

I've recently got a bunch of adds from people who are looking for me to promote their site but I feel like it's just a scam to click on the link or something so I would say watch out for those I haven't clicked anything, so not positive that they are bad but I would say most likely

[Weedoof]

It's a new gambling site, right? It's a scam, but not in getting you to click the link.

 

The idea is that it's a "rigged site", so you pick a user who's betting and the owner makes them win. They tell you that in exchange for promoting the site, they'll make you win a high-value pot every so often.

But that's where they get you. The site's not real, obviously. You have to deposit your items to play, and if you try to withdraw after winning you won't be able to.

[Apo]

Another similar scam is there the "LOGIN WITH STEAM" button links to a phishing site.

They grab the login (And the authenticator code you put in), and they hijack your steam api-key.

 

They use that to see what trade offers you have, and if you get a real offer from, for example, OPSkins, they will decline that offer, and immediately set up a fake offer that looks exactly the same.

Often, after they get your API-key (you likely won't know they did) someone (scammer's alt) will add you and ask you to deposit an item on (the real) OPSkins.

 

When you set up the trade with the real OPSkins, you go to accept the offer, except it's replaced by the fake offer.

 

https://blog.opskins.com/protect-your-steam-account-from-the-steam-api-key-scam/

[D.Alex]

 

40 minutes ago, Weedoof said:

if you try to withdraw after winning you won't be able to.

 

"... because if you just win once and withdraw, that might looks suspicious to others, so now you need to deposit more items and then you'll win more".

 

Believe it or not, people fall for this and scammers squeeze even more items.

[D.Alex]

 

43 minutes ago, Apo said:

They use that to see what trade offers you have [...]

 

Opskins is gone so now scammers usually swap your sent offer as described in https://marketplace.tf/blog/posts/YHLZOB

 

Also, at some point they started to swap not only MP deposits but any sent high-value trades: report 1, report 2, report 3

 

Since the new trade offer becomes a one-way trade (a "gift") the victim now has more chances to notice that something is wrong while confirming. Either scammers are too lazy to contact victims and make them use MP or they do that after victim refused to deposit to MP.

 

[Diamond jozu]

this isnt new at all.its been around in csgo for years and years ago.it still goes on now but they are now doing it in tf2 due to the 7 days ban and opskins dead

[Mr Furley]

This is actually a little different, this person has an older account with a few games but no tf2. He is asking me to add a tag to my name and send people to a link which I refuse to click. He says it's called tf2white

 

Edit the link I'm given is super odd it's blah blah . IN

[Diamond jozu]

1 hour ago, Mr Furley said:

This is actually a little different, this person has an older account with a few games but no tf2. He is asking me to add a tag to my name and send people to a link which I refuse to click. He says it's called tf2white

 

Edit the link I'm given is super odd it's blah blah . IN

its a scam.nothing but a scam.

[womentigerthai]

Yeah , I had something similar also. Some stranger added me and say help him promote some sort of tf2 website and in return he will compensate my time with tf2 stuffs. If it sounds too good to be true. It's probably isn't.

[Exotic Tomato]

I also got contacted by some guy asking me to promote a tf2sky.com by putting it in my name in exchange for him making me win a pot every week. I declined, but I wasn't sure it was a scam, and I wondered if I was right. Now that I see tons of other people who have had the same kind of stuff happen I am sure now. The reason I'm saying this is that it looked so real. He demonstrated to me by saying that "person X will win this pot" before it had rolled the winner, and sure enough, person X won. It also seemed that the site was real, as some of the "users" on the site chat responded to me asking if this was real or not. Obviously, they could be bots temporarily overridden to respond and the people were fake just like all the previous examples, it felt real and it's quite worrying that scammers are able to make sites that look so real in a way.

[Apo]

15 hours ago, Exotic Tomato said:

I also got contacted by some guy asking me to promote a tf2sky.com by putting it in my name in exchange for him making me win a pot every week. I declined, but I wasn't sure it was a scam, and I wondered if I was right. Now that I see tons of other people who have had the same kind of stuff happen I am sure now. The reason I'm saying this is that it looked so real. He demonstrated to me by saying that "person X will win this pot" before it had rolled the winner, and sure enough, person X won. It also seemed that the site was real, as some of the "users" on the site chat responded to me asking if this was real or not. Obviously, they could be bots temporarily overridden to respond and the people were fake just like all the previous examples, it felt real and it's quite worrying that scammers are able to make sites that look so real in a way.

If they're unethical enough to rig the (fake) pot, they're definitely unethical enough to scam you.