Selling Accounts

[Karvlok]

Someone recently tried to sell me discounted keys for a game, by selling me an account the keys had been bound to through a phising website.
How do I report this to Steam?

[ERN]

steam support

[Karvlok]

Messaggio originale di paste verzi:

steam support

I was looking around support and couldn't figure out where or even how to send in a notice about it

[nullable]

Messaggio originale di Karvlok:

Someone recently tried to sell me discounted keys for a game, by selling me an account the keys had been bound to through a phising website.
How do I report this to Steam?

If it happened over Steam chat and you know the seller's profiles there's a report function on the profile.

If this just happened somewhere on the Internet, like Discord, then there's not much Steam can do. And you'd report the activity the hosting provider...

[Sr Humungus]

Beware when you report ilegal or suspicious activities, if you say to support something like: someone tried to sell me something more cheap than the market prize, they dont know if you did the trade... so the logical step is blocking your account, investigate it first, and if you didnt do any bad things, they will return it to you. So take it as an advice, law is blind.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

If message was done via Steam, visit the person profile, and report them.

If it message outside of Steam, support can't do anything, could report the profiles if found out what they are, but if not, then again not much Steam can do.

[nullable]

Messaggio originale di Sr Humungus:

Beware when you report ilegal or suspicious activities, if you say to support something like: someone tried to sell me something more cheap than the market prize, they dont know if you did the trade... so the logical step is blocking your account, investigate it first, and if you didnt do any bad things, they will return it to you. So take it as an advice, law is blind.

The logical step isn't to "assume the reporter is also defrauding Valve so we should punish them to". The reason for that is if there's risk and hassle to reporting accounts, then people won't do it and that would be counter-productive for Valve.

Being able to imagine something dire, and decide your imagination is logical and plausible, doesn't necessarily make it so.

[Sr Humungus]

Messaggio originale di Snakub Plissken:

Messaggio originale di Sr Humungus:

Beware when you report ilegal or suspicious activities, if you say to support something like: someone tried to sell me something more cheap than the market prize, they dont know if you did the trade... so the logical step is blocking your account, investigate it first, and if you didnt do any bad things, they will return it to you. So take it as an advice, law is blind.

The logical step isn't to "assume the reporter is also defrauding Valve so we should punish them to". The reason for that is if there's risk and hassle to reporting accounts, then people won't do it and that would be counter-productive for Valve.

Being able to imagine something dire, and decide your imagination is logical and plausible, doesn't necessarily make it so.

Sorry, didnt remember i post here, you are true, thats why i warned op to watch what he/she writtes, you can dennounce whathever you want, but usually if someone is involved on illegal activities and as valve "worker" you must be sure if all is ok, not only the guy in the shadows trying to scam, but the dennouncer too if he/she did something tempted for an easy way. Sorry if my words sound disturbing, but ask any moderator or mmo "worker" and he/she will confirm my words.
I had my experience on this issue by the hard way, i dennounce a guy in a mmo, and workers blocked my account and the scammer too, they found nothing inside of mine and returned the account to me but the scammer account was permabanned.

[Unn4m3d (♥AUT♥)]

Messaggio originale di Sr Humungus:

Messaggio originale di Snakub Plissken:

The logical step isn't to "assume the reporter is also defrauding Valve so we should punish them to". The reason for that is if there's risk and hassle to reporting accounts, then people won't do it and that would be counter-productive for Valve.

Being able to imagine something dire, and decide your imagination is logical and plausible, doesn't necessarily make it so.

Sorry, didnt remember i post here, you are true, thats why i warned op to watch what he/she writtes, you can dennounce whathever you want, but usually if someone is involved on illegal activities and as valve "worker" you must be sure if all is ok, not only the guy in the shadows trying to scam, but the dennouncer too if he/she did something tempted for an easy way. Sorry if my words sound disturbing, but ask any moderator or mmo "worker" and he/she will confirm my words.
I had my experience on this issue by the hard way, i dennounce a guy in a mmo, and workers blocked my account and the scammer too, they found nothing inside of mine and returned the account to me but the scammer account was permabanned.

Steam isn't an MMO. Steam Support can see basically everything you did on your account, they don't ban or restrict you unless they find something actually fishy.


Reporting someone is not suspicious.

[[N]ebsun]

Messaggio originale di Sr Humungus:

if someone is involved on illegal activities and as valve "worker" you must be sure if all is ok, not only the guy in the shadows trying to scam, but the dennouncer too if he/she did something tempted for an easy way. Sorry if my words sound disturbing, but ask any moderator or mmo "worker" and he/she will confirm my words.

Messaggio originale di Sr Humungus:

workers blocked my account and the scammer too, they found nothing inside of mine and returned the account to me but the scammer account was permabanned.

No. Steam does not lock accounts without an actual reason to. Reporting someone will not get your account locked.

This sounds more like something a scammer will tell people, that "Valve has locked their account". Don't even try that here, it is making you look very sus. Valve / Steam support do not lock accounts without very good reasons to.