"steam official manager" contacted me

[Yatu]

Hey does anyone know if this "official manager" guy is real he or it contacted me after i realised i have lost my skins some f*** just got into my account and traded my cs2 skins to his account without me knowing any of that and the official manager told me this

"[Eilen: 22.48]

Official Manager:
Hello, suspicious activity has been noticed on your account, your items may have been stolen. Please confirm if so. Yes/No

Official Manager:
We have blocked the trade option for the intruders account. The stolen items will be returned to your account in 7d 16h 1m 8s remains in accordance with the rules of the Steam community.

is this real????

[MoonC A T]

Total SCAM

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

It is a scam. There are no Steam managers. Block and report the user.

[Yatu]

okay so what should i do like i dont get my skins back i have literally no clue how he got into my account i have all of my security thing applied etc i changed my steam password is that enough and also i deleted my apk key or whatever it was called

[MoonC A T]

Take the following steps to secure your account:

1. Scan for malware. https://www.malwarebytes.com/
2. Check that the email and phone number on the Steam account are still yours.
3. Deauthorize all other devices. https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
4. Change passwords from a clean computer.
5. Generate new backup codes for your Mobile App. https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
6. Revoke the API key (there should be no key). https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey

Steam does not return inventory items or wallet funds: https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/3B6E-B322-2400-8D24

[Yatu]

what you mean "change passwords from a clean computer"?

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by Yatu:

what you mean "change passwords from a clean computer"?

Preferably a trusted PC under your control that you've never logged into Steam with.

[Yatu]

so what passwords i should clean? steams? becose i have already done that

[MoonC A T]

Do all the steps again...

[Yatu]

but yeah ♥♥♥♥ this ♥♥♥♥ i dont know how that was possible i havent gave any of my information except thnat api key for certain "TRUSTED" skin market websites ♥♥♥♥ me ofc they didnt cost that much but still ♥♥♥♥ off this loser im gonna try to find his ip...

[MoonC A T]

...and stop logging into sketchy sites and giving your credentials away

[Mr. Smiles]

"trusted" skin sites... wow, I wonder how your account got hijacked?

Stop using sketchy 3rd party sites.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Yatu:

but yeah ♥♥♥♥ this ♥♥♥♥ i dont know how that was possible i havent gave any of my information except thnat api key for certain "TRUSTED" skin market websites ♥♥♥♥ me ofc they didnt cost that much but still ♥♥♥♥ off this loser im gonna try to find his ip...

Word of the day "oxymoron",

noun

A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.


As in "trusted skin site" is an oxymoron.

Originally posted by Yatu:

but still ♥♥♥♥ off this loser im gonna try to find his ip...

Don't bother, the fact that you think finding his IP is a thing that matters kinda confirms that whatever revenge fantasy you have is just that, a fantasy.

Whoever scammed you isn't just some random loser tooling around on their personal account. They're probably using someone's hijacked account, and any vigilante action you take against them, especially after that hapless user recovers their account is only going to get you into trouble. And, "I thought I was hurting the scammer", isn't going to get you out of trouble.

Focus your energy into learning the lessons you can and protecting yourself properly from now on. If you don't, you'll experience this pain again down the road.

[Tr3m0r]

Originally posted by Mr. Smiles:

"trusted" skin sites... wow, I wonder how your account got hijacked?

Stop using sketchy 3rd party sites.

You realize there are billions of dollars worth of skins sold ONLY at those type of sites correct? It’s so tiresome to read comments like this when anyone whose had high tier skins have had to interact with those sites to trade and or cash out at some point. Valve knows and condones them as well as 2000 dollar max on steam market is nothing compared to the multi billion dollar oligopolies running the entire economy.

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did steam promote that site as trusted... that would be interesting..

[MonkehMaster]

i still dont understand how anyone would fall for these scams.... why do you people just automatically believe someone, when they claim to be from somewhere.

also, why do people insist on clicking phishing/scam links, or using their login info on scam skin gambling sites....

do these people also fall for silly phone scams?

edit: OP past aliases show one profile name that was advertising some shady site.