99.999% of the time when you get an e-mail that says anything like your account will be closed and you must validate it or it will be closed its a scam




:!: :!: :!: THIS IS A FAKE EMAIL THAT IS BEING CIRCULATING SO BE WARNED :!: :!: :!:

:!: :!: :!: DO NOT REPLY IF YOU GET THIS EMAIL :!: :!: :!:

PLEASE MAKE THIS A STICKY

It reads as Follows:
From: "Steam" < accounts@steampowered.com >
Reply-To: "Steam" < steam-validation@mail.com >
To: "---@hotmail.com" < ---@hotmail.com >
Subject: Please validate your Steam Account
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 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.
There will probably be several versions of this email in circulations, so never reply to any of them. If you do, you could end up losing your steam account.
This act is known as 'phishing', an attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information.

Again, DO NOT act on such emails!

thanks for the heads up man, howd you find out it was a fake?

seen it post on another site

thanks for the warning tek

thanks tek

If anyone gets that email plz send it to me so i can look at it... i want to see if the ip in the header is the right ip...

Whomever is stupid enough to send that information to steam deserves
to have there account stolen.

First of Steam would never send an email asking for your ID and pw. der!

I'm glad u posted it, because I know some of our n00b members r freaking
dumb enough to reply to it like (JoeMamma). ♥

Make sure no one tells 8balla about this post. lol

Peace.

hahahaha good stuff

aww....baby...who you have to be hating on me?? That's it! No reach-around for you tonight!
LOL. C'mon...even I am not THAT dumb!

Thanks for the warning.

Oh so sorry honey, I promise I'll be good tonite. Just plz dont say you
wont reach over and touch me.

♥

oppps you mean i shouldnt have replyed :P


jk

Swabs, you know what to do! Steam-validation@mail.com

Haha yeah! Spam time!

OMg I Win!



Hello, we are contacting you about your fake email. We have recieved reports of your acts and you will now suffer the consequences. We now have the FBI doing an investigative case on you, which will directly weed you out, and put you behind bars. Scamming is a national law and will be punished with life in prison. Your ip address has been recorded, and we already have your address.

Steam

wow midnight, the fact that the return address was @gmail.com wasn't big enough of a hint?

just subscibe him to the BBW yahoo newgroup

he'll get pictures of fat women like 20 times a day.

that's what I did to my buddy at work LOL!!!

pie your one messed up mother F*CKER



(links pl0z to sign my teacher up for....she was stupid enough to give the class here "school account"