Registered: Feb 2003

Please note that this is a FAKE Steam email.

Never send out your username and password to anyone!

Forum regular Phantom informed me about an e-mail he received yesterday which tries to make people believe that the Steam Account database will be formatted soon and that the user information needs to be sent to the e-mail address supplied in the mail.

Of course the mail is fake! Never send out your username and password to anyone. This should be commonly known but in regards to this mail I thought I should mention it here again. So if you get a mail like the one below, just delete it and don't pay any attention to it.

quote:

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From: "Steam" < accounts@steampowered.com >
Reply-To: "Steam" < steam-validation@mail.com >
To: "---@hotmail.com" < ---@hotmail.com >
Subject: Please validate your Steam Account
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:39:45 +1100

Dear Steam User,

In order to continue using Steam you must validate your account by
forwarding this message to Steam-validation@mail.com.
You must include your account information in this format in the message:
Username: (your Steam username)
E-Mail: (the email you registered your account to.)
Password: (the password you used to log in to your Steam account.)

Our database will be formatted soon, due to some damage caused by some
users. We will need to record our active users and add them to our database
once again.

You must validate your account within 30 days or eles your account will
get closed. Thank you for your co-operation, Best regards, Steam
account Managing Team.

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Registered: Feb 2003

Wow, that sucks. Stickied.

(it goes without saying, yes that's a fake and you should just delete it if you get it)

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Registered: Jun 2003

Changed thread title from "Fake STEAM E-Mail !!!!" to "Important: Steam Account Stealing Scam."

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