Old steam account generator
Perhaps these are not phishing as much as some sort of practical joke.
Its so easy to miss because that is my e-mail, just not my account name. It took me several months to connect the dots. Every other aspect of them looked legitimate except the account name. My account was being spammed about three or four times a week with them, each time listing some exotic IP address. I'm certain at this point that these e-mails that I received are not real. Whatever the case, just look closely, and if in doubt contact steam directly to see if the account activity being reported is legitimate. This may just be a spoof, hoping to get people to overreact and wipe there HD's as someone's idea of a cruel prank. I'm only guessing, but I just wanted people to stop and think before nuking there OS. They can create a phony, but very convincing, "official" e-mail from hoping to lure the unsuspecting into clicking that link at the bottom of the page. Steam got hacked at some point a few years ago, and while no important info was decrypted, they may have gotten a list of e-mail addresses linked to actual Steam Accounts. That link at the bottom likely takes you to a bogus site where they hope to get your actual account info. I think they are pasting the e-mail address as the account name into a phishing e-mail. I'm not saying they created an actual Steam Account. Simply log into steam to access account recovery procedures. Please exercise caution and never click on the internal e-mail links.
#Old steam account generator code#
I am not an expert at deciphering the raw code behind an e-mail to determine its veracity, but I will say that the fake e-mails got this "Received-SPF: pass (domain of designates 208.64.202.43 as permitted sender)" These e-mails look very legitimate. This link DOES appear in legitimate e-mails from steam support. I assume the link they are hoping you will click is the "If you are unable to access your account then use this account specific recovery link for assistance recovering or self-locking your account." link that appears at the bottom of the e-mail. They are identical in every way to a legitimate e-mail from Steam, except in my case they mistakenly assumed that I was using my e-mail address as my account name. This confirmed that these e-mails are fake, but they are extremely good forgeries.
My account name happens to be something completely different. "If they are using your correct account name in the header." It finally dawned on me that they were not using my account name, they were using the first part of my e-mail address. At last while looking through one of the threads I found a key phrase from someone.
#Old steam account generator password#
I changed my password multiple times to no avail. I began receiving them several months ago and was quite perplexed. Before nuking your OS, these e-mails are a scam. up to and including a clean re-boot of the OS. There has been a lot of advice given, and it generally centers around anti-virus scanning etc. I have been seeing a lot of these posts on steam, as to weather these emails are a scam.