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Recently I have been getting invites sent to me on Steam, looking at the profiles of the people sending the invites I can see we have no friends or groups in common and sometimes we are not even playing the same games.
Should I trust these people?
If I can't see how I might know them is there a possibility that the invite could open the door to a possible scam? or am I just being irrationally paranoid?
Can you be private messaged by people who aren't your friends? I know people do like to send messages to other people that somehow convince them to hand over their password or put their login details into a dodgy website.
That's a good point. No, as far as I know you can't use Steam to send mail messages, you can chat in real time and the only details I would ever give out are what's already in my limited profile, ie what games I own etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by snootyjim
In the past I have added people to my friends list and chatted with them and then found that they have asked me to gift them games, but I usually remove people when they do that and I usually do it during the conversation so they know they have been removed. Lately I don't even log on to my steam account as I can play games like Call of Duty: MW3 without signing in.
But something at the back of my mind makes me think that these guys must be after something to just randomly want to invite me when I can see no way that we would have made contact with each other. I won't be linking my Steam and my Facebook accounts so I guess there's no harm in accepting the invites, but I'd just like to have the peace of mind in knowing that they can't do anything to my account before accepting the requests.
It's always possible, but I doubt that anyone could damage your account purely because you were friends with them.
As you said though, it provides many more vectors for them to attempt to convince you to hand over something valuable.
As a rule I always ignore invites from people I don't know, better to play it safe.
I think I will ignore them too, looking through the profiles I'm starting to think that they are just looking for people to trade TF2 hats with. If that is the case there's not much point in me adding them as I don't play the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by weta
I get them a lot too.. And even if i cancel/ignore the request some of them send it again a few days later.. I also get added to groups on a near constant basis.
I've adopted the attitude of ignore all randomers.