Should steamrep start supporting attempted phishing reports?

NOT bots - but those new "join tournament" phishers, which are actual humans.

Doesn't really work imo. For those aren't their own accounts either. And by the time the report results into a mark, they could have regained the account again, and have to appeal which takes a very long time.

Its really best to report them to Valve.

Some admins get those attempted on them, and these may get marked, but putting them in the reporting process is not going to work.

Makes sense.

I just wish steam would give "phishing warnings" for people who get reported but aren't yet banned, similar to how they warn against people reported for scamming.

Steamrep itself has tonnes and tonnes of pending reports and the numbers are growing each day. If Steamrep were to take on such reports it would not be good. Such as the 1) The time taken to actually get the account marked, 2) The account is not actually a scammer, the account is being just abused by a hijacker. 3) As Silent and Lava both said the user will have to appeal once the account has been regained access to.

If there were a separate tag for phishing or hijacking then it would be good. But in a sense it is kinda a good idea, say if a person who is cautious about who the add, they can check steamrep or any similar website and see "Fred" has a tag for phishing or hijacked account currently, better not accept him OR alternately it may block the hijacker/phisher from using websites that show users backpacks, how many trades/messages they have made etc. (I.e. CS:GOLounge, DotA2Lounge, backpack.tf, tf2oupost etc...) Essentially stopping the hijacker for targeting new traders or traders that have items of value.

In all honesty the idea is good BUT it doesn't out-way the those three issues. Also it would increase Steamrep's work load by heaps.

There is an extention / app for google chrome that blocks mispelt website names, it's useful for stopping people getting phished when they click links that are fake steam ones. But, if they thought enough to install this extension, chances are that they would check links anyway.. this seems like an issue that is hard to resolve and marking users probably wouldn't help, because, I am making the assumption that most people that get phished aren't the most knowledgable about this stuff and probably wouldn't check steamrep anyway.

Its less and less the misspelled websites anyhow, and we don't "list" malicious sites for being dangerous. That would lend credibility to them in the search results... no thnx.

I mean, there already is a chrome application