-Download files or apps that unknown players or users will give you on steam/discord.

-If they tell you that they know a steam member discord or they link you something DO NOT accept (steam employee do not contact you in private, it is a scam to steal your steam info and credentials)

-Accept unknown friendships from randoms on steam/discord, they are 100% scammers. (if you don't have any friends in common or if there are no reasons for the friendship)

-Accept discord private calls with unknown players, they are 100% scammers. (they can ask you to share your screen)

-Stream your screen on a private call on discord with a random player, they are about to steal your accounts. (they can get your keylogs)

-Click links fowarded from unknown players / users, they will steal your accounts and your credit cards. (like steam gift cards on discord / steam OR Logo / emblems or even FACEIT links)

-join a specific FACEIT group when unknown players or randoms ask you to (they usually tell you "i can't play normal cs premier because i got banned from leaving too many times, plus it's full of cheaters" or something like that.)

-Listen to what all these ppl tell you (by ppl i mean the examples that i did) they will try to manupulate you.

-DISCLAIMER-

I will not talk about second hand apps or files (like downloading from malicious sites or unknown sources)

Because that is COMMON knowledge and it's Personal Choice.

You should ALWAYS go to steam (top left corner of steam) / Settings / Account / Account Details / Autorized Devices and look at your devices.

Here's the "thing", if you're getting scammed by the minute then you can still SOLVE this by doing these things in THIS exact order:

(1)-If there are unknown devices connected to your account press the RED button "remove all credentials"

By doing that (as soon as possible) your account will be trade banned for 1 month and scammers can't trade your items.

(2)-If you do not recieve an email verification with a block option for your steam account, block your steam account trough Steam Support.

By doing so you are 100%sure to block possible access from any source, and you can recover your account trough steam at any time (and you'll be able to change your password)

(3)-Retrieve your steam account trough Steam Support / Change password and set up again your steam guard and 2 factor auth

-KEEP IN MIND-

If you can't log back into your account skip to the "(2)".

This (if done fast enough) will still save your tradable items.

I suppose you got your account back, safe and sound... but you took too long or you didn't get any notification and you just saw and fixed the issue.

Well for starters you can totally get in contact with Steam Support, explain the situation and MAYBE they will fix it.

I say "maybe" because unfortunately it's super hard for steam to get your items back. (partly because some of these scammers are friends with ppl on the steam support team, as absurd as it seems)

In case this works out for you and you get back your stuff, i'm truly glad.

-HERE'S STEAM SUPPORT IN CASE YOU NEED IT-
https://steamhost.cn/help_steampowered_com/en/

You may ask yourself "what is the reason behind these scammers trying to steal my account(s)?"


-Well it's actually pretty easy, if you are like "me", and play games that have really expensive skins, they just wanna trade them on a alt account that they use to store "scammed" skins, then maybe either trade them for more expensive or sell them after a while to make profit.

-If you don't have many skins, maybe they just want your account so they can try to scam your friends with it, and other users too. (but they do this with mostly all scammed accounts, not just this example)

-Lastly, they can even try to keylog most of your passwords and credentials to steal your battle.net/EA/Epic games accounts... and if they can find credit cards binded to that account, they'll try to buy gift cards for themselves or resell the actual account for profit..


Overall super Lame and Cringe, they're (mostly) "the russian version of indian scammers"