Please help me, (i think api key scam)

[Yaser]

Good day, I am very depressed today. Even though I approved the knife that I would send as a gift to my friend, the user named Tisokixovy somehow took the knife into his own inventory. I was very depressed and did not know what to do, so I decided to do a research. I did a research to understand why this was the case and somehow I learned the API key. My key was stolen and a person named Tisokixovy copied my friend's name and description when sending a trade, rejected my friend's trade and made another trade, and unfortunately I approved it without my knowledge on the confirmation side. By the way, I learned that Steam leaves a yellow warning message in the confirmation section with a new update, that message did not appear to me and My friend's level did not show up, the situation is like this, the man stole the knife that I was going to gift to my friend and we don't know what to do right now. Is there any chance we can get the knife back? If so, we would be very grateful if you could help us, thank you in advance.

[Skipspik]

Taht's an APi scam and no.

our account is compromised, you are not banned, it's a scam attempt.

DO. NOT. TRADE.
Do not trade even if the message tells you that you only have X time left.
Do not trade, or you will loose your items due to automates set up by the scammer.
Do not trade at all, even if you are sure it's the correct account you are sending to.
They want you to iniate a trade, that's how the scam works. So not trade.


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.

[Yaser]

Thanks for your help, I will do what you said :(

[Donald Trump]

Originally posted by Yaser:

Thanks for your help, I will do what you said :(

Just want to confirm here that what this user said is true, do these measures and your acc will be safe again. sorry that happened

[Yaser]

Originally posted by Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

Originally posted by Yaser:

Thanks for your help, I will do what you said :(

Just want to confirm here that what this user said is true, do these measures and your acc will be safe again. sorry that happened

I implemented what the friend above said, I hope it doesnt happen to us again, thank you for your comment :/

[Skipspik]

At least that life lesson isn't planting your car in a tree at too much speed.

[Yaser]

Originally posted by Skipspik:

At least that life lesson isn't planting your car in a tree at too much speed.

You are so right, thank you for everything, I would be very happy if you report the guy here https://steamcommunity.com/id/ilqnurpavlov967

[wasabi™]

Damn sorry to hear mate, been seeing this happen more and more lately.
Hope you managed to properly safeguard your account against these scammers now OP.

Need to be careful since they will try every trick in the book these days.

[HaŦŦrick ✓ 🛠 🗽]

Originally posted by Skipspik:

At least that life lesson isn't planting your car in a tree at too much speed.

unfortunately i've been in too many car crashes, and you are correctamundo.

I dont remember smashing my face through the windshield and landing in an irrigation ditch in one of those crashes but i will forever recall the sound and awful feeling of the emergency room nurses scrubbing the glass shards and dirt out of my wounds with an oversized toothbrush, as i was passing in/out of consciousness.

always wear a seat belt.

hard experiences in life are the greatest of lessons. trust me lol but dont ever get in a car with me.

[Yaser]

Originally posted by wasabi:

Damn sorry to hear mate, been seeing this happen more and more lately.
Hope you managed to properly safeguard your account against these scammers now OP.

Need to be careful since they will try every trick in the book these days.

I have maximized the security level dude, thanks for your comment and I would appreciate it if you could report the guy who stole the knife.

[Yaser]

Originally posted by HaŦŦrick ✓ 🛠 🗽:

Originally posted by Skipspik:

At least that life lesson isn't planting your car in a tree at too much speed.

unfortunately i've been in too many car crashes, and you are correctamundo.

I dont remember smashing my face through the windshield and landing in an irrigation ditch in one of those crashes but i will forever recall the sound and awful feeling of the emergency room nurses scrubbing the glass shards and dirt out of my wounds with an oversized toothbrush, as i was passing in/out of consciousness.

always wear a seat belt.

hard experiences in life are the greatest of lessons. trust me lol but dont ever get in a car with me.

damn sorry to hear that ah btw i would be very happy if you report the guy who stole the knife

[Yaser]

Btw, I'm very sorry that I lost the knife, friends, I spent a lot of effort to buy that knife (unfortunately, everything is very expensive in my country) I was going to gift it to my friend, it would be a kind of cs2 investment for him, but unfortunately, I was very embarrassed against him, thank you all for everything friends, my last request from you is that you should report that scammer so that he does not defraud more people, take care of yourself with this api key ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, see you soon :(

[wasabi™]

Originally posted by Yaser:

Btw, I'm very sorry that I lost the knife, friends, I spent a lot of effort to buy that knife (unfortunately, everything is very expensive in my country) I was going to gift it to my friend, it would be a kind of cs2 investment for him, but unfortunately, I was very embarrassed against him, thank you all for everything friends, my last request from you is that you should report that scammer so that he does not defraud more people, take care of yourself with this api key ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, see you soon :(

Don't beat yourself up over it and take it as a learning lesson. Most of us have been scammed in one way or another, I have also for quite a bit of money (outside of Steam).

Important thing is to learn and safeguard your account and be vigilant moving forward,

I get that it costed a lot of money but what is done is done and I know it's a bitter pill to swallow but it will be easier when you can just move on from it and put it behind you.

[ENGIE]

Hello Dear Community,
i have faced off with this scammer today, fortunately i had already know how they act,
Firstly, they approach as a valve fraud department, they can manage everything on your account. They are also capable closing the support requests, they block and remove all my friends, now i am waiting response from support in order to how can i secure my account.

[apple]

Originally posted by ENGIE:

Hello Dear Community,
i have faced off with this scammer today, fortunately i had already know how they act,
Firstly, they approach as a valve fraud department, they can manage everything on your account. They are also capable closing the support requests, they block and remove all my friends, now i am waiting response from support in order to how can i secure my account.

ok