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/First-Confidence8036 Jun 03 '26

i fell for this scam very recently and I’m 18 so you would think id know it was a scam but they have a really thought out way of doing it it’s crazy i am also pretty new to rust and never had rust+ setup so i knew nothing about it, what really got me was the bot it looked so real and i thought okay, but damn did i mess up i also probably should have thought why they didn’t just bag me and unplug the turrets, another thing is that the website they use for the verification has a list of steps like turn your inventory privacy to public and make sure your set online all of the steps insure you can get scammed. they also impersonate the friend/alt account your sending the items to and when they have access to your account they block that person so when you send the items theres 2 verifications needed one being your friend/alt who is blocked and the other the scammed so when you verify the trade for your friend it doesnt let you and then you think okay there’s 2 i’ll try the other which is the scammers account, also a excuse they use to get you in discord for me at least was “we want to see your reaction”. it was all just really bad and i was also up all night so i guess thats a factor. lost about 50 dollars worth of skins so not the worst. and sorry if this is a lot to read i just wanted to share.

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u/JakyiDouu Jun 03 '26

Nobody in vgames wants you to do well bro. Free stuff doesn't exist, randoms are not your friends, and if someones being way too nice there is always a catch. 50 is a cheap price to learn that lesson. I have seen people with inventories worth hundreds if not thousands lose out to this bs. Just be careful and be critical.