Steam’s Birthday Celebrated by Phishers

English and German speaking Steam customers are advised to beware of a website that allegedly offers an anniversary upgrade. In reality, the site is carefully designed by phishers to steal the login details of unsuspecting users, reports GFI.

“Valve gives to you one of 1000 available Steam-gold-account upgrades which allow you to play all 72 games for free!” reads the fake offer.

While the site (steambirthday.com) is well designed, most of the links being set up to point to legitimate Steam related locations, a big yellow UPGRADE NOW button that claims there are only 103 updates available will lead to a secondary malicious page that displays a form in which the victim is required to complete his log-in details.

Once the username, the password and the email address are provided, another form request a confirmation code received via email, this being the point where the crooks have everything they need to steal a Steam account.

“As the Steam-Project starten at September, 12th 2003 , no one had thaugt, that this system is that great. In a really short time our servers become more and more and today, there are more than thousand meters of them. The games became more and more, too. Today, we are on of the biggest companies with a great software to sell our multi-player games,” reads a message on the main page of the phony site.

The scheme is either very old, or the cybercriminals that launched it can’t count, since they claim that “Steam is 3 years old” and that’s why the offer was launched.

Internet users are advised to avoid such promises even if the website they are hosted on almost perfectly replicates a legitimate page. Like in many cases, the large number of typos, grammar errors and the confusing facts can easily give away the true identity of a malicious scheme.