Why so many fake accounts?

[Zealaequin702]

I noticed CSGO is mostly fake accounts that are below level 10 with no other games on them or just free games to make it seem real when checking profiles. Is there a reason or are they just burner accounts for cheating? It just seems sus that i see so many of them or private ones that are low level steam accounts. Seems to be a pattern with CSGO that I don't see in my other games when looking. Is there a actual valid reason not to use your main account?

[monky debil]

You buy smurf and burn accs for very little money

[Zealaequin702]

Originally posted by debil:

You buy smurf and burn accs for very little money

so it is used for cheating then? I dont see a reason for Smurf account if you are playing casual.

[H3Lb3NT]

If you mean accounts that have CSGO but with very little hours put in them, but also having some other free games to make it seem legit, then they're most likely scam/bot accounts. If one or multiple of them end up sending you a friend request, and you accepting their request, they'll end up spamming you with a "hey, there's this one website where if you login you'll get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for entering, I got my butterfly fade on here [insert link]", where the link is most of the time a link that leads to a website that if you login on it, it'll try to bot your account by sending similar messages to people in your list, or at times, it's an IP grabber if you pressed on the link.

[H3Lb3NT]

Originally posted by H3Lb3NT:

If you mean accounts that have CSGO but with very little hours put in them, but also having some other free games to make it seem legit, then they're most likely scam/bot accounts. If one or multiple of them end up sending you a friend request, and you accepting their request, they'll end up spamming you with a "hey, there's this one website where if you login you'll get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for entering, I got my butterfly fade on here [insert link]", where the link is most of the time a link that leads to a website that if you login on it, it'll try to bot your account by sending similar messages to people in your list, or at times, it's an IP grabber if you pressed on the link.

I'll have to uncensor the hearts, Steam is being a nonce.

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[Zealaequin702]

Originally posted by H3Lb3NT:

If you mean accounts that have CSGO but with very little hours put in them, but also having some other free games to make it seem legit, then they're most likely scam/bot accounts. If one or multiple of them end up sending you a friend request, and you accepting their request, they'll end up spamming you with a "hey, there's this one website where if you login you'll get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for entering, I got my butterfly fade on here [insert link]", where the link is most of the time a link that leads to a website that if you login on it, it'll try to bot your account by sending similar messages to people in your list, or at times, it's an IP grabber if you pressed on the link.

ahh okay. Makes sense. They didn't stand out or anything, but just was looking and noticed then started checking more and more people encountering the same things, same words, same free games and same comments on their profile with low levels. only came across a few that were extremely good. Just stuck out and was wondering why it was common. Sad to see Counter-strike like this.

[H3Lb3NT]

Originally posted by Zealaequin702:

Originally posted by H3Lb3NT:

If you mean accounts that have CSGO but with very little hours put in them, but also having some other free games to make it seem legit, then they're most likely scam/bot accounts. If one or multiple of them end up sending you a friend request, and you accepting their request, they'll end up spamming you with a "hey, there's this one website where if you login you'll get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for entering, I got my butterfly fade on here [insert link]", where the link is most of the time a link that leads to a website that if you login on it, it'll try to bot your account by sending similar messages to people in your list, or at times, it's an IP grabber if you pressed on the link.

ahh okay. Makes sense. They did stand out or anything, but just was looking and noticed then started checking more and more people encountering the same things, same words, same free games and same comments on their profile with low levels. only came across a few that were extremely good. Just stuck out and was wondering why it was common. Sad to see Counter-strike like this.

It's been like this since like the beginning of the introduction of the cases if I'm not mistaken. If not by then, then by the point when skins started to become part of trader's lives where they sell good skins for thousands for cash money. And I don't think this applies to CSGO only, there may be some games that go unnoticed and those communities may have similar incidents like what CSGO has.

[4:3 OR SWIPE LEFT]

My account is 11 year old and still lvl 7 I dont buy many games that doesnt mean ♥♥♥♥

[RugOp'81]

Originally posted by Luferson:

My account is 11 year old and still lvl 7 I dont buy many games that doesnt mean ♥♥♥♥

True !
Account level doesnt mean anything.
My account was below lvl10 for 16years or so, simply because i didnt care about my profile at all.

And only because i had a moment of extreme boredom i looked into it and raised my account lvl to 27.
But still, ...it doesnt mean anything.

[Food]

Possibly bot networks. Drop farming, overwatch botting, scamming, etc etc. Probably hundreds of thousands of accounts are either semi or fully automated.

Some will be cheater throw away accounts. Some more still will be normal user accounts that never got used that much for whatever reason. Some are market accounts used to store market items.

[Zealaequin702]

Originally posted by Luferson:

My account is 11 year old and still lvl 7 I dont buy many games that doesnt mean ♥♥♥♥

i know that's why i look for similar words, comments on their profile and I check if they've changed their name more than 5x in recent time along with account ages to completely check different stuff instead of just level. It's still seems to be more than than luck that so many were similar in a lot of ways. I'm not saying you are a bot, which is why i asked however a lot of it does make sense and why CSGO is still considered super popular even though I see so many say NA is pretty dead comparatively to other countries.

[Cert1fied Flexer ツ]

you described my account, i don't see how this couldn't be real

[Zealaequin702]

Originally posted by Cert1fied Flexer ツ:

you described my account, i don't see how this couldn't be real

Damn you. Made me look liar. lol xD

[Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima]

Originally posted by Zealaequin702:

I noticed CSGO is mostly fake accounts that are below level 10 with no other games on them or just free games to make it seem real when checking profiles. Is there a reason or are they just burner accounts for cheating? It just seems sus that i see so many of them or private ones that are low level steam accounts. Seems to be a pattern with CSGO that I don't see in my other games when looking. Is there a actual valid reason not to use your main account?

---------- its beacuse steam and valve havent got good antycheat fifa 23 has better antycheat than cs go

[Aohitsugi]

[Cert1fied Flexer ツ]

Originally posted by Zealaequin702:

Originally posted by Cert1fied Flexer ツ:

you described my account, i don't see how this couldn't be real

Damn you. Made me look liar. lol xD

ok i lied xd, but my account was like that few time ago when i didn't have a job, maybe is more about people who got the game when it was free and doesn't have money