Welp, had my first run in with a phishing link attempt.
He was Russian, as usual. He must have saw my trade on Outpost and added me, then before I even had the chance to say hi, he sent me a message.
"Hi. My friend want to trade with you. Add him."
Then he put a link to a phishing site.
I knew this guy was phishy (budum-tsss) when he told me his friend wanted to trade me. So I asked him if his friend wanted to trade, why didn't he just add me directly? Then I said "steancomomunity........really? you think that I'm that stupid? Nice try dipshit." then I reported him. I got no response obviously, and instead I wake up this morning to find that the little son of a bitch tries it again, twice.
So at this point I know there's no point in trying to talk to this guy because he's just going to spam me with vain phishing attempts so I say "Again? You really think I'm that stupid? You know what, fuck you and your phishing links." Then I blocked him, and again reported him, twice, one for each link. Here's the chat log for those interested:
Warning: Contains bogus links. Do not try to link them.
PizDAaaa: Hi. My friend want to trade with you.Add him.
steancomomunity.com/id/GTRRacer001
John Caveson: if he wants to trade me, why soesn't he add me then
John Caveson: ?
John Caveson: also "steancomomunity"?
John Caveson: nice try dipshit
John Caveson: reported
PizDAaaa: Hi. My friend want to trade with you.Add him.
steancomomunity.com/id/xclickzm
PizDAaaa: Hi. My friend want to trade with you.Add him.
steancomomunity.com/id/thewiggin
John Caveson: What again? You really think that I'm that stupid to fall for it after you failed to trick me already?
John Caveson: You know what, fuck you and your phishing links, blocked, reported x2 (one for each link) and I hope you get banned.
I checked his profile and I've come up with this:
He's from Moscow, of course.
He only has Dota 2, L4D2, and AirMech
Only Dota 2 has almost 1k hours played, the other 2 don't even go past an hour.
He's been a Steam member since January 10th, 2013
He is a member of the Dota2Lounge Steam Group, and nothing else
His inventory contains only Dota 2 items and a random L4D2 trading card
He has 54 "friends"
My conclusion is this, he is a massive Dota 2 fan/trader, duh. He probably started scamming at around half a year after his Steam account was created (wouldn't be surprised if he's done this since the beginning of his account). Some of his "friends" are trading bots, and I bet most of his other "friends" are probably fellow scammers, or even accounts he's hijacked. He probably got all of those Dota 2 items through scamming or outright just being a shitty trader.
Now I have him reported, let's just hope he gets banned or something. Which brings me to this question. Why are Russians all stereotyped as scammers/hackers/phishers/etc.?
You what know I'm talking about, the "high pitched, aggressive Russian kid who doesn't know a word of English spamming you with trade requests trying to scam you out of your expensive hat, and rages at you whenever you turn him down." That stereotype. Where did it come from?