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Back in June, Team Fortess 2’s community banded together for the third year running for the #SaveTF2 campaign, a movement aimed at bringing greater attention to issues of botting that have plagued the game for the past half a decade. But while it certainly got plenty of people talking, the number of people getting involved has drawn the eyes of some less-than-savoury characters.
TF2 players have reported receiving fishy direct messages claiming that a new website has been set up to collect signatures for new round of the campaign. This is in reference to the original save.tf website that saw more than 343 thousand people sign a petition calling on more action from Valve.
A post from @katamiphi on X (formerly Twitter) shows screenshots of a conversation with one would-be scammer sending links to a website masquerading as the original save.tf website, claiming that the petition has been re-opened and more signatures are needed.
Reportedly, loading up the site asks players to add their signature to the petition, whereupon clicking the ‘sign’ button, players are prompted to input their Steam login details. This is, of course, a blatant attempt to trick players into giving away access to their Steam accounts, which with the value of certain items in games like TF2, CS2 and Dota 2, could be worth several hundreds, if not thousands of pounds.
The websites used have very similar URLs to the original website, typically either changing the top-level domain or slightly altering he phrasing or spelling of the URL. As well as that, the websites have largely copied the design of the original website, but have noticeably deleted the disclaimer confirming that the petition has no closed, so as to trick any unsuspecting players into giving away their details.
If you receive any random DMs on Steam claiming that another petition has been started up, it’s a scam. Our advice would be to steer well clear, not click any links you don’t trust and to report any profiles that are sending out these messages.
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