How to prevent your Steam account from being cloned.

[RonRaf]

How to prevent your Steam account from being cloned.

What I'm going to recommend is, because it happened to me, I don't want it to happen to you. I'm not going to write my story because it's already in another post. I'm going to give you my recommendations so you don't get cloned on your accounts.

The malicious user intends to hack you by inviting you to like their Counter-Strike art and giving the link where their art images appear.

It turns out this link doesn't correspond to Steam, but rather simulates it, and will ask you for the access code or QR code everywhere, even though you're already registered. This already raises suspicions.

A day later, they pretend to be support or some other fable and will ask you to transfer some of your items to them for security reasons, or, worst of all, to close the app on your phone.

Ignore these unknown users. What you have to do is the following:

Your phone team user should check the connected devices. If you see devices connected from another country, like Russia, they should be aware that someone else has taken control of your account and needs you to deactivate it.

For this reason, what you need to do is find your Steam password and close all devices connected to your account. Then, log back in with your phone.

This will remove malicious users from your account.

Then report these users, if possible, as soon as they send you the link.


This user can only delete your images, change your user's appearance, and delete your licenses. Don't worry, because by contacting support, they can restore your license, but not your images. I hope this has helped.

[datCookie]

How to prevent your Steam account from being cloned:

DON'T CLICK ON LINKS FROM USERS YOU DON'T ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ KNOW.

DON'T ACCEPT FRIEND INVITES FROM USERS YOU DON'T KNOW

IT IS LITERALLY THIS SIMPLE.

[Maria]

Originally posted by RonRaf:

...
... inviting you to like their Counter-Strike art and giving the link where ...

The PSA should stop at this part.

'you should not click this link. never login to steam through a link sent by strangers.'

[Thiesen]

Simply put; you got phished because you thought that that $50 were real and thus gave away your Steam account in exchange...

[Vamp]

1. Don't log into websites, just use the steam program on your computer.
2. That's it

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by RonRaf:

In my investigation, I discovered that they connected to the following page:


on Sunday, when I wasn't connected. Be careful with this page, as it's used for hacking.

Don't post phishing links

[Seraphita]

A dota trading website? Why am I not surprised. CSGO players phish themselves all the time. Suddenly, DOTA players do the same thing. Do NOT use shady websites.

[Darkwave Dahlia]

You can stop reading right at the word "hacked", because the text offers neither new insight nor anything that could help future users with their account security.