First, they empty your wallet – ITavisen.no

Then they sell your stuff at bargain prices.

Monday, 15 September 2014 – 11:36

Amazon recently acquired the social game network Twitch for an amount equal to six billion Norwegian kroner. The site has more than 50 million users.

False offers
now claim security and antivirus company F-Secure that a so-called Twitch-bot (auto created account) trying to lure money from users.

A worried user has informed the F-Secure that such an account bombard multiple channels where players interact with each other with false offers of weapons in Counter-Strike and other products that cost money.

Creepy link
This happens through a link to a Java program. This program asks the user email address and permission to publish your name.

Those bits on, you get the following message:

Congratulations, you have joined this week’s raffle. We will contact you by e-mail if you win!
(Congratulations, you have been with this week’s gambling., We will contact you via email if you win!)

Full list of misdeeds
Then put the program in time to do mischief.

An executable file of an injury groupings called Eskimo (only dangerous if you are using Windows) gets dumped on your hard drive, and a program performs these tasks:

• Taking pictures of your screen
• Adds new friends in Steam
• Accepting new friend requests on Steam
• Buying goods, if the user has money
• Sending an offer of exchange
• accepted the exchange offer
• Seller goods at a discount in the marketplace

Timber wallet
Eskimo is also able to empty your pocket, weaponry and inventory warehouse in Steam. Besides selling the virtual your possessions with 35 percent discount to be getting them sold as quickly as possible.

Swap offers are not real. Those who agrees to barter, experience having to give up their stuff without getting something in return.

swindlers purpose seems to be to build up enough money to buy attractive goods by selling unattractive attractive goods in large numbers and with great discount.

It can thus be seen that this is not just traditional monetary fraud, but also a kind of cheating system operated by one or more fans that will improve their opportunities in games for a reasonable price at the expense of other players.

Source:
F-Secure