Steam Escrow System Drives Impatient Users To Fake Trading Sites Serving Malware (malwarebytes.org)

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 11, 2015 @03:37AM from the impatience-is-security's-archnemesis dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On Wednesday, Valve introduced a new "trade hold" system that should prevent scammers from stealing items from Steam users' hijacked account, or at least minimize the occurrence of such incidents. Anyone using the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator to confirm trades is able to continue trading as always. Users who haven't enabled it, or can't, can still trade, but they'll have to wait up to 3 days for the trade to go through. The system was, understandably, not welcome by some users, and it didn't take long for scammers to take advantage of this discontent.

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Did the Submitter have a Stroke? by bigdady92 · 2015-12-11 03:42 · Score: 3, Funny

The title sounds like someone had a seizure during submission and mashed words into sentences.

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