Legit Tourney Voting Invitation?

[Machelix]

It might just be my heightened suspicion over the years, but recently I was approached by someone asking me to vote on their emblem for a gaming tourney.  In you guys' opinions, is this tournament voting legitimate, or is this another scam attempt?

 

Home URL of suspected scam tourney:  [removed by mod]

Contest URL of suspected scam tourney:  [removed by mod]

[Heidecker]

Please don't post the links in here lol. 100% a scam, always!

[Poisonous]

That does sound like a scam.

There was a method similar where a [insert scammer name] where they would ask you to vote their comp team on a sketchy website. And for that, you needed to connect your account on a fake steam login page that would steal all your info.

If I were you, block him and ignore those.

[Bananas]

These scams make sense for dota or cs but idk who’s dumb enough to fall for a tf2 tourney scam

 

what competitive scene bro, the top tournaments are like $20k prizes vs millions for other games, this game doesn’t have a tournament scene big enough to vote on lmao we literally have a bot crisis and the item servers will break for days at a time, this shit is neglected 

[shreksouthouse]

crowdfunded $500 prizepool though

[Sound_1]

It is quite an old scam at this point, seen it many times over the last few years.

[STEVE]

Domain: x
Registrar: REGISTRAR OF DOMAIN NAMES REG.RU LLC (2.15 million domains)
Query Time: 13 Jan 2024 - 5:53 PM UTC  [LIVE WHOIS]

Registered: 11th January 2024  [2 days back]
Updated: 11th January 2024  [2 days back]
Expiry: 11th January 2025  [11 months, 28 days left]

 

Site was just registered to reg.ru which is always a scam lol

[AwesomeSause]

1 hour ago, SoundDrout said:

It is quite an old scam at this point, seen it many times over the last few years.

Yeah, had it come up again recently which is odd

[Baloo]

I love clicking links, Charlie!

[Rainy]

why would u post the suspected scam links bro wtf

[RussellSproutz]

100% a scam

[Littlepudintater]

I voted.

[Dominant]

Why hasn't a admin removed this scam link yet, or removed the whole post completely?

[absalonn]

it feels like the actual scam is this post, hoping someone would click without reading, why did u post this and why didnt the mods take it down yet

[Zeus_Junior]

Yes this is a scam. Besides the fact that it's never legit when someone asks you to vote for them there are a couple things you can do to verify these websites

(My screenshots are dutch sorry, but I'm sure you recognize the pages)

1- Clicking login doesn't actually take you to steam, check the URL

Alternatively it can also open the login page as a fake popup on the website itself, where they make it seem like the popup has the correct url, steam never does this and it's always fake

 

2- It DOES take you to steam but you are not already logged in

When this happens, open steam in a new tab yourself and log in there. Then try again on the site you're trying to log in to and it should look like this:

If it doesn't and still asks for your login info, don't log in

 

 

[eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

14 hours ago, Dominant said:

Why hasn't a admin removed this scam link yet, or removed the whole post completely?

forum moment, i am glad this isn't discord