Should Valve Pay More Attention to Scammers/Phishers?

Well, every trader knows Phishers and Scammers and hates them, but should Valve try to pay more attention to these people? Of course Scamming and Phishing requires the Scammer/Phisher to be clever, and the Victim not so clever, but still, people are creating hundreds of alternative accounts, which are bots for the most part. This spams Steam, even though it is not noticeable it is still there! If Valve Payed Attention to the IP (Internet Protocol) Addresses from where a massive amount of accounts is getting created, they could block the IP and delete the accounts that are used for nothing! So what do you think? Should Valve Tighten the Security? Or should everything stay how it is now.

 

I see what you mean. The only downside to this I can think of, is the threat this solution poses toward automated trading bots for TF2WH, which I frequently use. If VALVe did decide to crackdown on scammers & phishers, they probaly wouldn't treat the legit trading bots from WH any diffrently. This works out for them, as it would force players to buy items only from the MannCo. online store, which as we all know is obscenely overpriced, and would serve simply to make GabeN even richer.

That's just the way I see it anyhow; I could be mistaken.

 

Absolutely. Valve really should pay more attention to this type of thing, and there is nothing more frustrating than accidentally following a phishing link and having to change your password immediately after.

 

True, there are things they could do. In the long run however, it's always going to be up to the user in question to avoid scams and phishing (in particular).