Steam Account Stolen?

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Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
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Your account was not stolen by a phishing site. You freely gave your info away when you gave your login and password to someone on a non steam site. I know it was misleading, but there have been literally thousands of alerts put out in the past 10 years about being careful about what sites you go to, messages to not click on links you aren't familiar with, and other alerts to stop scammers, and still something pops up and you clicked on the link without verifying where it goes or what it does.

Glad you got the account back, but don't do stupid shit like that in the future.
 

Martimus

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Apr 24, 2007
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Your account was not stolen by a phishing site. You freely gave your info away when you gave your login and password to someone on a non steam site. I know it was misleading, but there have been literally thousands of alerts put out in the past 10 years about being careful about what sites you go to, messages to not click on links you aren't familiar with, and other alerts to stop scammers, and still something pops up and you clicked on the link without verifying where it goes or what it does.

Glad you got the account back, but don't do stupid shit like that in the future.

What you are describing is phishing. So the account was indeed stolen by a phishing site. Just because he could have avoided it, doesn't change that it was stolen, nor the fact that it was done so via phishing.