It has just come to my attention that, last week, a rather hilarious example of skiddie stupidty occured whereby a 13 year old game enthusiast attempted to gain the login details of a gamer from Tennessee.

The 13 year old, posing as a Valve worker, started up a chat session via MSN with br0kenrabbit of the Futuremark gaming forums. The 13 year old, known as “Greg”. Attempted to steal br0kenrabbits Steam account by asking for sensitive information.

Not being as naive as Greg, br0kenrabbit turned the tables on his would be assailant posing as an official Valve employee himself. Notifying Greg that a true Valve agent would NEVER converse with customers over MSN and NEVER ask for sensitive account information, br0kenrabbit informed Greg that his account would be suspended, going on to acquire all the personal information from the fraudster himself.

Coming clean after blocking access to Gregs account, Greg expressed his horror with a..

i was just making a joke but not cerious honest dude just give
my acount back pllllleeease i’m only 13 and save d up for like a year to buy it

The full MSN log can be found here on Futuremark Gaming Forum.

Kudos to DrDeath at Hackers Voice for pointing out this story.