Steam phishing targets video game players

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Phishing attacks against Steam users are nothing new - they've been around for a couple of years - but as more and more users jump onto the Steam bandwagon (train?) phishers have greater chances of success.

Here's one example of a Steam phishing email, intercepted by SophosLabs, which was sent to an email address that has never registered for a Steam account:
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Although it looks like the link will take you to the real Steam website, the HTML actually directs you to a phishing site.

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