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A series of item scams have hit the Steam community overnight, as shovelware developers attempt to dupe trading groups attached to popular Steam games. At the time of writing, trading communities attached to Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2 have been affected, with high-profile figures attached to those groups advising users to refrain from trading altogether until Valve have issued a fix.

The issue seems to have begun with a game called Climber, a $1 dirt biking game, and initially revolved around a Dota 2 item called Dragonclaw Hook. That’s an in-game item for one of the game’s heros, Pudge, that was only available in early 2013, and now fetches around $800 when it’s sold on the Community Market.

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Climber’s developers appear to have crafted the fake using Valve’s assets, including the item description, in-game images, and even the Dota 2 logo and name, in order to make their version appear as realistic as possible. After players completed the trade, the fake would appear in their inventory, but not as an item for Dota 2, making it entirely useless.

Climber has since vanished from the Steam store, but it’s encouraged a significant number of copycat scams, and in theory, any legitimate game could be subject to this same issue. Dota 2 and TF2 appear to have been most affected, but CS:GO, Rocket League, and PUBG all feature in-game trading economies that could be subject to abuse of this kind.

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