Is this a scam?
Some one sent me a friend invite not too long ago. I was ignoring it for the longest time until I accidentally accepted it. Now this lvl 2 acc is writing me tellin me that scammers used my account to purchase his australium scattergun or smth from tf2. I didn't buy nothing, never got the scattergun in my invent, literally no proof.
I tell the goober I never purchased anything, and he immediatlly apologizes for reporting me with his friends. SO HE BELIEVED ME INSTANTLY EVEN THOUGH MY ACCOUNT ALLEGEDLY STOLE HIS AUSTARLIUM. So this goon tells I should add some "mod's" account and contact him with the report ticket to cancel the report or else my account gets banned. Is this a scam or am i being paranoid and I actually need to contact this "mod" that he mentioned?
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Yes, scam.
pckirk 24 Jun @ 9:57am 
1. Steam Agent -- no such thing exists. Valve will not contact you outside of a yellow/red notification bar in your Steam client. The only exception is when they are emailing multiple people about a very specific issue. Valve will never contact you through Discord, Twitter, Facebook, Steam Chat, etc.

2. Steam needs to verify that I am the owner of my account. -- When Steam support needs to do that, it will be in direct response to a question you have sent them or as asked for via a red notification in your Steam client, and they will tell you specifically what they need to prove ownership.

3. I asked for a legit proof so I received e-mail with some issue number. -- Steam support will not email you when asking for proof of ownership. This is done entirely via the ticket system.

4. I was told that I need to accept all my cs2 items trade to a temporary account. -- Valve will never ask you to do this. This is a classic trading bot scam. These items are lost forever. Steam support will not return them.

5. I was told my items would return by Thursday, 05.06 -- Again, classic scam. You were given a date so they had more time to get away with it.

6. Yesterday I wrote to Steam support and I see now, that my Question was closed with no answer. -- This is an indicator that the person who scammed has direct access to your account.
Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:
Yes, scam.
well that made sense, I can usually smell them a mile away but im especially paranoid now that my steam account is in potential danger. How is it supposed to unfold If I was too fall for it?
Tottaly scam. False reports do nothing, and there is no such thing as contacting steam mods.
Steam support tho is what you should contact and report that 2lvl account
I told the guy I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ his mom we won
ShelLuser 24 Jun @ 10:02am 
Do you really need to ask? ;)

First, if Steam needs to contact you then they can already do that, no need to befriend some random nobody. Think about this for a change: this would also imply that you'd need to add an admin before he can tell you that you're banned, which is of course absurd.

Second... falsely reporting someone isn't the problem of the person getting reported, but rather those who made the false report. Why even assume that Steam would pick up those reports as truth without doing any checks themselves? That too is an absurd idea.

SO yah, scam attempt is obvious. Report the involved accounts, block & defriend 'm, then move on.
Several important things you should rememeber -

1. Never trust your steam friends, even if you have played with them.

2. Don't do anything they tell you to do outside a video game even if you're friends with them for years.

3. Never connect with an unsafe server, only VAC secured ones if you have games like CS.

4. Never join any random groups or click on some external link.

One other thing is Steam never contacts the players directly so, that guy is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ scammer. Show them the middle finger and steam is very friendly in case of recovery too. They will need some proof, thats about it.
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m070180mop 24 Jun @ 12:21pm 
Originally posted by Went to six flags...:
Some one sent me a friend invite not too long ago. I was ignoring it for the longest time until I accidentally accepted it. Now this lvl 2 acc is writing me tellin me that scammers used my account to purchase his australium scattergun or smth from tf2. I didn't buy nothing, never got the scattergun in my invent, literally no proof.
I tell the goober I never purchased anything, and he immediatlly apologizes for reporting me with his friends. SO HE BELIEVED ME INSTANTLY EVEN THOUGH MY ACCOUNT ALLEGEDLY STOLE HIS AUSTARLIUM. So this goon tells I should add some "mod's" account and contact him with the report ticket to cancel the report or else my account gets banned. Is this a scam or am i being paranoid and I actually need to contact this "mod" that he mentioned?
KlayypeX 24 Jun @ 12:35pm 
Originally posted by Went to six flags...:
Some one sent me a friend invite not too long ago. I was ignoring it for the longest time until I accidentally accepted it. Now this lvl 2 acc is writing me tellin me that scammers used my account to purchase his australium scattergun or smth from tf2. I didn't buy nothing, never got the scattergun in my invent, literally no proof.
I tell the goober I never purchased anything, and he immediatlly apologizes for reporting me with his friends. SO HE BELIEVED ME INSTANTLY EVEN THOUGH MY ACCOUNT ALLEGEDLY STOLE HIS AUSTARLIUM. So this goon tells I should add some "mod's" account and contact him with the report ticket to cancel the report or else my account gets banned. Is this a scam or am i being paranoid and I actually need to contact this "mod" that he mentioned?
yea they hacked my account but I got it recovered yesterday.
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