Discord: "I've accidentally reported you for illegal purchases!"

[Zydrate]

I've seen this twice now. What kind of scam is happening here? I just had the second person tell me that they've 'accidentally' reported my account for illegal steam purchases.I most certainly haven't so I'm not worried... though I'd like to know the nature of the scam so I can be sure not to fall into the trap proper.

[Yasahi]

They'll try and direct you to a "Steam representative" or the likes who then needs to gain access to your account in order to check that everything is fine.

Alternatively if your account is compromised and they have an APIkey set for rerouting trades they'll try and scare you into trading by telling you'll be banned in an hour/24h etc. but you can save your items by transferring them to a friend. They'll then cancel the trade and recreate it to a fake account. Users that are afraid of losing their things just smash through the verification process ignoring all warnings and boom, items lost for good.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

They bait you into talking with a fake Steam employee who tries to get you to send your info to them so they can hijack your account.

That's all.

[Zydrate]

Thank you. Good thing I never let it get that far.
Honestly the biggest red flag is "I accidentally..." Like reporting on here is a several step process. How do you accidentally type a blurb about how you think another user has done something illegal.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

It's just what scammers do, they bait you with whatever to get you reply, give you a story to trick you, and then try to scam you. If they scam you, they repeat the scam again with someone else using your account, and keep on doing it, some people do fall for this scam, and most don't fall for it.

Can learn more of few of the other types of scam, and learn more about internet safety.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/3084376689324641195/#c3084376689324897217