Trade Ban for no Reason

[Yarmen]

Yesterday I was suspected of stealing a skin, even though the skin I supposedly "stole" was a skin I traded for on the trading website skins monkey. I was forced to move my skins to another account but because I didn't have one, I made one. Then steam created a Trade for my alt account but it then was traded to some random account. I lost like $600 worth of skins and I don't think I can get them back. Please Help me

[H4CK3R MAN]

You can't get them back. you got api scammed. there were never any reports, you likely used a site that impersonated the real skins monkey site.

Why would you even trust the person? don't you find it weird that you were warned before a potential ban? Like common, don't you have common sense?

[ꖌ∷4⨅|| ᓵᔑℸ ̣]

Revoke your API key https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey and be more careful next time

[Yarmen]

Originally posted by H4CK3R MAN:

You can't get them back. you got api scammed. there were never any reports, you likely used a site that impersonated the real skins monkey site.

Why would you even trust the person? don't you find it weird that you were warned before a potential ban? Like common, don't you have common sense?

No i didn't get API scammed, i was suspected for stealing a skin i traded like 2 months ago, i had steam support to ask me to move my skins to an alt account but they made a mistake

[Schekelberg73]

Originally posted by Gwa Gwa Cat:

Originally posted by H4CK3R MAN:

You can't get them back. you got api scammed. there were never any reports, you likely used a site that impersonated the real skins monkey site.

Why would you even trust the person? don't you find it weird that you were warned before a potential ban? Like common, don't you have common sense?

No i didn't get API scammed, i was suspected for stealing a skin i traded like 2 months ago, i had steam support to ask me to move my skins to an alt account but they made a mistake

Yes, you got API scammed. Somebody told you he was the Steam support, he told you to move your skins to another account. However they had access to your api key, so they changed the trade to go to one of their accounts, so you end up with no skins at all.
Sadly your skins are gone, hope you learn from this and think the next time a bit more.
Maybe you should read about the most basic scam methods to be more safe

[H4CK3R MAN]

Originally posted by Gwa Gwa Cat:

Originally posted by H4CK3R MAN:

You can't get them back. you got api scammed. there were never any reports, you likely used a site that impersonated the real skins monkey site.

Why would you even trust the person? don't you find it weird that you were warned before a potential ban? Like common, don't you have common sense?

No i didn't get API scammed, i was suspected for stealing a skin i traded like 2 months ago, i had steam support to ask me to move my skins to an alt account but they made a mistake

Steam support won't ask you to move skins to another account. You got api scammed

[H4CK3R MAN]

Also if you haven't figured it out already. Support members do not add users directly. If you were given a trade ban there would be a red mark next to your user name in the upper right corner with the words "account alert". and a window would popup with the reason behind the account alert. These are usually for community bans, anti cheat bans or trade bans.

[Yarmen]

Originally posted by H4CK3R MAN:

Originally posted by Gwa Gwa Cat:

No i didn't get API scammed, i was suspected for stealing a skin i traded like 2 months ago, i had steam support to ask me to move my skins to an alt account but they made a mistake

Steam support won't ask you to move skins to another account. You got api scammed

well i got scammed lol

[Yarmen]

Originally posted by H4CK3R MAN:

Also if you haven't figured it out already. Support members do not add users directly. If you were given a trade ban there would be a red mark next to your user name in the upper right corner with the words "account alert". and a window would popup with the reason behind the account alert. These are usually for community bans, anti cheat bans or trade bans.

well that did happen aswell

[H4CK3R MAN]

Well. we all make mistakes. You should take measures to secure your account. Here's a copy paste with a few vital steps. Note that a clean/secure device means a device you're a 100% sure is not comprimised. I'd advice you to not use your computer to do this as it is is clearly compromised

Steps to take NOW:
1. Scan for malware https://www.malwarebytes.com/
2. Deauthorize all other devices https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
3. Change passwords from a clean computer. If you used that passwords for another website, change it over there too.
4. Generate new backup codes for your Mobile App https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
5. Revoke the API key https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey (there should be nothing in the APIKEY)
6. Change your trade link
Profile > your inventory > trade offer > Who can send me trade offer > scroll down and make a new trade link.
7. Report the scamming account to support if you are already scammed :Help (top left) > Steam support > CS GO > problem with item > I was scammed
(Replace the game if it's not CS GO items - support cannot give those back, but can ban the bot account)

The whole point of it is to force you to initiate a trade and a bot will cancel and redo a trade instantaneously that you would beleive is the correct one but is not, it will be a bot copying the receiver account almost perfectly in less than one second, you will confirm it but that's the fake account and your items will be send to that other account and lost.

They can do that because they have set up an API key for that, through you connecting to a weird website one day, and they just need you to confirm the (compromised without you realizing) trade through your app.

If you lost your item already, you cannot get those back, that's just an unfortunate expensive life lesson.

[Valerie]

Originally posted by Gwa Gwa Cat:

Originally posted by H4CK3R MAN:

You can't get them back. you got api scammed. there were never any reports, you likely used a site that impersonated the real skins monkey site.

Why would you even trust the person? don't you find it weird that you were warned before a potential ban? Like common, don't you have common sense?

No i didn't get API scammed, i was suspected for stealing a skin i traded like 2 months ago, i had steam support to ask me to move my skins to an alt account but they made a mistake

Steam support will NEVER contact you through Steam chat or third party platforms. This is a VERY common scammer tactic. The scammer will pretend to be Steam support, scare you into moving your items to another account and when you try, the API scam kicks in. They will re-route your trade to their inventory and then you lost your skins.