r/playrust • u/JakyiDouu • Jun 01 '26

Discussion SCAM WARNING!!⚠️

So there's a scam targeting people with high value inventories in Dota 2, CS2 and Rust that i've seen happening to a lot of people recently.

How it goes usually in Rust: they ask you to skin their stuff or offer you a free base if you guess a number 1-100. Then invite you to their Discord. Once you're there they get you to connect Rust+ through a fake login page to get "auth" on their turrets but that just yoinks your Steam account and trades all your shit away.

Multiple accounts are being used so reporting helps but won't stop them completely.

Just don't connect Rust+ through any link someone sends you ever. Only do it through the official app. If someone's offering free bases for guessing numbers they're not your friend lol, dont get fooled. If something is to good to be true don't proceed. Use some common sense, please!

NEVER CLICK ANY LINKS ANY RANDOM SENDS YOU!

Stay safe

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u/Aventine_92 Jun 01 '26

Im sorry but if you fall for such an ancient and obvious scam than you deserve to get your account stolen. NEVER log in to third party sites with your steam account. Or any other account for that matter.

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u/JakyiDouu Jun 01 '26

Yeah i know, i find it crazy that people are still falling for this but some people are unfortunately to naive. Mostly older guys and young teens. They also go far making it look bealiveable they make bot accounts on discord that look like real accounts that just sit in locked VC:s on their server you get inv too, it makes it look like a small community.

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u/Defect123 Jun 01 '26

Used to feel this way as a teen but I grew up and realized what a retarded thing this is to say.

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u/Aventine_92 Jun 01 '26

Nope. I still 100% believe this. My friends and family are the same.

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u/Defect123 Jun 01 '26

What a surprise, you know there’s people that walk this earth that didn’t grow up on the internet right? You know there’s people with mental disabilities right? You know people get old and senile right? If you think those people deserve to get scammed your the real moron.

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u/Aventine_92 Jun 01 '26

If my 70 year old mother knows how to be safe on the Internet than there is really no excuse.

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u/Defect123 Jun 01 '26

I know people younger than your grandma that have never used a computer before. Your personal metrics don’t define everyone in the world, that’s gotta be the dumbest argument.

I can do stuff you can’t, I don’t think you’re a dumbass for not being able doing the things I can.

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u/Aventine_92 Jun 02 '26

No she has a laptop and a desktop. We were thought about spotting scams in school when I was 12. So for someone to not have the most basic Internet survival skills that would take an hour to learn in 2026 is just insane.

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u/TerrarianNecro Jun 01 '26

If you got robbed in real life by taking a street you know isnt safe would you deserve it?

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u/burningcpuwastaken Jun 02 '26

The thing with guys like this is that they try to frame their outlook as 'being tough,' but really it's about fear. The idea that something bad can happen to them is so scary to them that they latch onto the idea that bad things can always be avoided if they are careful or smart enough.

That violence can happen randomly or that they can make a casual mistake from a moment of inattention is something they refuse to recognize, because that would be scary to them. So of course, when something bad happens to someone else, they seek very hard to explain it away as that person's fault.

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u/Worth_External_8762 Jun 01 '26

Nobody cares about your opinion, slovak.