Steam admins sending discord messages for issues.

[childraz]

hello i have come across that there have been valve employees that have been messaging ppl on discord and at the same time other admins saying that thoose ppl are scammers this is super wierd.

[Herr Heinz]

steam will contact you through steam itself. this is a scam

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

They are all scams.

Even Alden tried warning people when they were impersonating him...

https://twitter.com/aldenkroll/status/1308869949818052615

https://twitter.com/aldenkroll/status/1309167149282451457

[Falsus Te Deum]

Steam personel will never, ever contact anyone regarding steam issues of whatever kind on ANY other platform than in steam's own message system. ANYONE claiming to be steam admin on the likes of Discord or anywhere else is scammers and fake.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by childraz:

hello i have come across that there have been valve employees that have been messaging ppl on discord and at the same time other admins saying that thoose ppl are scammers this is super wierd.

There is no reason for Valve to use discord. Ever.

[mimizukari]

Why would Valve contact you over Discord when their platform is Steam?

[I've ran out of profile ideas h]

Originally posted by Falsus Te Deum:

Steam personel will never, ever contact anyone regarding steam issues of whatever kind on ANY other platform than in steam's own message system. ANYONE claiming to be steam admin on the likes of Discord or anywhere else is scammers and fake.

They wouldn't even use the steam chat system, they would send an account alert or something(unless that's what you're reffering too)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Pain Elemental R6S:

Originally posted by Falsus Te Deum:

Steam personel will never, ever contact anyone regarding steam issues of whatever kind on ANY other platform than in steam's own message system. ANYONE claiming to be steam admin on the likes of Discord or anywhere else is scammers and fake.

They wouldn't even use the steam chat system, they would send an account alert or something(unless that's what you're reffering too)

Account alert or PM through your Community Messages, yes.

[Falsus Te Deum]

Originally posted by Pain Elemental R6S:

Originally posted by Falsus Te Deum:

Steam personel will never, ever contact anyone regarding steam issues of whatever kind on ANY other platform than in steam's own message system. ANYONE claiming to be steam admin on the likes of Discord or anywhere else is scammers and fake.

They wouldn't even use the steam chat system, they would send an account alert or something(unless that's what you're reffering too)

Not chat, the green/ungreen envelope up to the right have the messages from Steam support or others. Hope it's more clear.

[Clearwater]

I wish I got more trying to scam me. It's honestly fun to screw around with them and make them bark up the wrong tree.

Sure, you can report them and be on your way, but as an added bonus, the more time you spend screwing with them, the less time they have to try and scam others.

[childraz]

i just found out it was a imitate but tysm guys

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by Clearwater:

I wish I got more trying to scam me. It's honestly fun to screw around with them and make them bark up the wrong tree.

Sure, you can report them and be on your way, but as an added bonus, the more time you spend screwing with them, the less time they have to try and scam others.

Not how it works. At this point they're all automated by bots pretty much.

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by childraz:

hello i have come across that there have been valve employees that have been messaging ppl on discord and at the same time other admins saying that thoose ppl are scammers this is super wierd.

no employer from steam will ever contact you unless you contacted them via a support ticket

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by ✟CorruptedPumpkin✟:

Originally posted by childraz:

hello i have come across that there have been valve employees that have been messaging ppl on discord and at the same time other admins saying that thoose ppl are scammers this is super wierd.

no employer from steam will ever contact you unless you contacted them via a support ticket

or you receive a community message which is 1000% different from ANY chat message

[ShatteredPumpkin]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

Originally posted by ✟CorruptedPumpkin✟:

no employer from steam will ever contact you unless you contacted them via a support ticket

or you receive a community message which is 1000% different from ANY chat message

which is in most of all cases a warning xd

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

A PM is used for reminders from moderators in lieu of warnings so it doesn't count against you like a warning. Can also be used by mods for just private messages so they don't have to friend users and play in the chat.

Valve employees usually ask for general logs for troubleshooting issues but not asking for account info.