It’s no big shock that Twitter has been in dire straits recently, facing downtime and limiting user access, many advertisers are likely looking for better options. However, that means that the social media app is forced to sell to anyone who will pay, leading to an increasing amount of spam in recent days. Now it seems that a fake ad is being promoted claiming to be giving away access to Counter-Strike 2.
When scrolling through my Twitter feed, I noticed one of the ads claimed to be giving away access to the highly anticipated sequel update to the infamous FPS. There have been some strange ads for products, but this is the first advertisement that seems like it’s actively trying to steal players’ information by claiming to do something that isn’t possible right now.
Valve has not stated that it was releasing any new codes to the public, nor has any large organization given out Counter-Strike 2 codes. The only way that players have been able to get access has been through grinding out progress in the first iteration of the game with the hopes of being awarded access, but no other option is currently available.
If you follow through the link, it will eventually ask you to log in with your Steam account and you should not do that on any website that you don’t recognize. In fact, as has become a meme on Twitter, the community notes pointed out what was wrong with this, linking to a Eurogamer article that states Valve encourages players not to log in through any sites that aren’t specifically Steam for these exact scams.
This didn’t stop a wide variety of bot accounts to flood the comments of the tweet, stating they had received access. However, the quote retweets are filled with people calling out the obvious scam due to the fact the tweet is limiting who can reply and all the accounts seem to be blue checks.
As Twitter becomes more hungry for ads, it’s likely that we will continue to see more scams, gaming or otherwise. As always, make sure that you’re not giving any of your account information to any sites that aren’t officially related, as most developers will give you a code to redeem access to a game instead of granting it directly to your account.
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