That link at the bottom likely takes you to a bogus site where they hope to get your actual account info. I think they are pasting the e-mail address as the account name into a phishing e-mail. I'm not saying they created an actual Steam Account. Simply log into steam to access account recovery procedures.
Please exercise caution and never click on the internal e-mail links. I am not an expert at deciphering the raw code behind an e-mail to determine its veracity, but I will say that the fake e-mails got this "Received-SPF: pass (domain of designates 208.64.202.43 as permitted sender)" These e-mails look very legitimate.
This link DOES appear in legitimate e-mails from steam support. I assume the link they are hoping you will click is the "If you are unable to access your account then use this account specific recovery link for assistance recovering or self-locking your account." link that appears at the bottom of the e-mail. They are identical in every way to a legitimate e-mail from Steam, except in my case they mistakenly assumed that I was using my e-mail address as my account name. This confirmed that these e-mails are fake, but they are extremely good forgeries.
My account name happens to be something completely different. "If they are using your correct account name in the header." It finally dawned on me that they were not using my account name, they were using the first part of my e-mail address. At last while looking through one of the threads I found a key phrase from someone. I changed my password multiple times to no avail. I began receiving them several months ago and was quite perplexed. Before nuking your OS, these e-mails are a scam. up to and including a clean re-boot of the OS. There has been a lot of advice given, and it generally centers around anti-virus scanning etc.
I have been seeing a lot of these posts on steam, as to weather these emails are a scam.
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