Yeah... I fell for this one. I immediately got spooked and changed my steam password when I had trouble signing in to my Steam account on the third-party website since I had seen THAT old gag before. Next day, my friend contacted me and told me the site was a password-harvesting scam...
Anytime I get anything from someone I don't know "Who is this, why are you bothering me and also no." *delete* The random friend invites from obvious e-thots are the funniest ones.
@Noel Loordes, it is safe to link your account, maximum they get is some public data.
Important is: do not enter your login and password on steam lookalike sites. that's where you lose password, not when you link.
Had this, i'm not that afraid of linking my steam account (as in using it to authenticate myself), but the page in where I had to enter my details was a "pop-up" page that was rendered within the website itself. Safe to say I didn't enter my login info :)
Linking your account to stuff is like, so passive.
A few step process and then you never think about it again.
The warnings when you link your google account is like: Will get access too-
*a bunch of unimportant stuff all the apps ask for*
im skeptical and ask many questions when I get links
The ones that fall for the scam are the gullible kiddos who haven't been tricked or attempted to be tricked via such methods before. An extra point yet again for education's value.
For whatever reason, this reminds me of those hilariously poorly acted mobile gaming ads, where the person is desperately trying to express to you how much fun they are having, in the most hilariously broken English possible, to the point that what they are saying doesn't even match the subtitles.
