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Sunny 30 Jul @ 8:46am

illegal trade items stolen

At 11:48/49/50 today 30/07/2025, i had three emails from Steam saying that 3 individuals had had initiated trades. The EMAIL from STEAM stated that I had received over 450 items from them and I had nothing taken. Curious I checked the trades, which I had NOT been involved in, and noticed that the trades were all the items from my account. Also the items where ALL TAKEN from my account NOT GIVEN as stated in the emails from STEAM. How does this happen. And why will I never get anything back as its clearly stolen, ... Oh my acct is 2fa and my PC runs eset32 security. Im baffles annoyed and very angry having spent time MONEY only to be informed that anything lost has gone. How can this be prevented.

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Thermal Lance 30 Jul @ 8:56am

This can be prevented by not giving away your credentials.

a "hacker" would have to:

Guess your username.

Guess your password.

Guess a 30s short lived code for the 2FA.

All of them have lots of combination.

Accounts are phished. You need to figure out where you leaked your info. Nobody can do that for you.

Last edited by Thermal Lance; 30 Jul @ 8:57am

Beardface31 30 Jul @ 8:59am

You gave your account information away. Don't give your account information away....

Originally posted by Sunny:
How can this be prevented.

Last edited by Beardface31; 30 Jul @ 8:59am

Overseer 30 Jul @ 10:46am

Originally posted by Sunny:
How can this be prevented.

By only sticking to the official Steam website operated by Valve and never deviating to other websites that imitate the login. All you need is an active session and no other website using the Steam login would ever ask you for your account or password. And if it does its pishing.