Someone reported me by accident?

[Shiki]

I just got reported by accident by one of my steam friends. He tried to report someone but reported me for accident.

https://imgur.com/VLWqFS0 (screenshot proof)

https://imgur.com/viYJxL2 (His profile)

I have not done anything bad. Will I end up getting banned?

[FFL2and3rocks]

It's a scam. Report and ignore.

[Steele]

if you have done nothing wrong then you shouldnt be banned if any people who look into your report case and notice nothing fishy like cheats or exploits or something else than you will be completely fine

also people who tend to do that are trying to scam items or other things out of people

[Zekiran]

Yeah as they say above, this is a scam unless proven otherwise. If your "friend" claims you have to give someone else your items or anything like that ABSOLUTELY REPORT THEM, BLOCK THEM, and move on. DO NOT trade your items away to anyone for this at all.

[Teksura]

Let's go one step farther. the next part of this scam involves either them telling you to contact a fake "steam admin" by adding them as a steam friend, or the fake "steam admin" adding you and "warning" you about the "pending ban". Sometimes this includes a phony animated gif showing some made up process with them hovering over a made up ban button.

They'll lie to your face, offering to "help" you by "giving you a chance to prove you are innocent." Incidentally, the way you do this for some strange reason always seems to involve sending a trade offer to them containing your most valuable items. They lie to your face more about this, some even going so far as to make another phony animated gif showing a made up "item verification" process, which again, isn't real. And even if it was, note that Valve staff don't need you to send a trade offer for them to see your inventory. Also, all contact with valve staff would be through the support system, and all bans would be placed without even contacting you first. Also, bans aren't issued because someone made a report, they are issued as a result of support investigating the ban using their access to *EVERYTHING*. Also, Valve staff won't ever add you as a friend.



So if you see anything like that, just laugh in their face. Block them, and report them.

[Winged One]

reporting them is all you can do, but your items will not be restored, they are gone..

In the future, Valve will NEVER speak to you through Chat, ONLY through community moderation if at all.. if anyone says otherwise, block and continue your day


Also, remove the profile links, naming and shaming is against the rules

[Teksura]

So what you're doing now is called "name and shame". That isn't allowed, and you should remove that video and the links. Block, report, move on, and next time actually pay attention to replies when you ask people what is going on instead of just blowing us off and giving everything away. It took a matter of minutes before the first wave of people exposing the scam. Why even make the thread if you had no intention of reading the replies?

[Winged One]

Okay props on actually removing the links OP.. people can often get themselves in trouble in this situation by refusing to remove the links for such silly reasons as "its not naming and shaming if its true" or "its not to shame, its to warn people to block them"..

You did the right thing there, you followed the rules on naming and shaming once made aware of them which most people in your situation don't.. so once again, props

[Shiki]

Publicado originalmente por theseraph1:

Okay props on actually removing the links OP.. people can often get themselves in trouble in this situation by refusing to remove the links for such silly reasons as "its not naming and shaming if its true" or "its not to shame, its to warn people to block them"..

You did the right thing there, you followed the rules on naming and shaming which most people in your situation don't.. so once again, props

Yes, my bad for breaking this rule. I will not do it again.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Did your "friend" ask you to do anything? Such as visit a link, download something, trade with him/someone, or share login details, anything at all?

If so then that person trying to scam you. And you should report for such activities.

If not then person either just messing with you, or doesn't understand that there's no such thing a dupe items.


No you can't be banned for someone reporting you, if you didn't do anything to begin with, and again FYI dupe items doesn't exist, no one can dupe items.

[Winged One]

Publicado originalmente por 神戸:

Publicado originalmente por theseraph1:

Okay props on actually removing the links OP.. people can often get themselves in trouble in this situation by refusing to remove the links for such silly reasons as "its not naming and shaming if its true" or "its not to shame, its to warn people to block them"..

You did the right thing there, you followed the rules on naming and shaming which most people in your situation don't.. so once again, props

Yes, my bad for breaking this rule. I will not do it again.

everyone makes a mistake now and then, you at least acknowledged and corrected it, which is something we don't see nearly as often as we would like on these forums.. so you did better than most people there for what its worth :)

[Winged One]

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Did your "friend" ask you to do anything? Such as visit a link, download something, trade with him/someone, or share login details, anything at all?

If so then that person trying to scam you. And you should report for such activities.

If not then person either just messing with you, or doesn't understand that there's no such thing a dupe items.


No you can't be banned for someone reporting you, if you didn't do anything to begin with, and again FYI dupe items doesn't exist, no one can dupe items.

he deleted the post because it contained links to said accounts, but he already fell for it unfortunately

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Ah ok, then OP need to follow these steps.

1. Scan for virus, and such.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/

2. Deauthorize all devices.
https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage

3. Change your password on a secure device.

4. Generate new back up codes, if you have Steam mobile authenticator, or add one.
https://store.steampowered.com/mobile

5. Revoke all API keys.
https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey

[Shiki]

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Did your "friend" ask you to do anything? Such as visit a link, download something, trade with him/someone, or share login details, anything at all?

If so then that person trying to scam you. And you should report for such activities.

If not then person either just messing with you, or doesn't understand that there's no such thing a dupe items.


No you can't be banned for someone reporting you, if you didn't do anything to begin with, and again FYI dupe items doesn't exist, no one can dupe items.

No he has not showed any suspicious websites or asked for my login details but told me to trade with the person and that he was trying to help me.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Publicado originalmente por 神戸:

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Did your "friend" ask you to do anything? Such as visit a link, download something, trade with him/someone, or share login details, anything at all?

If so then that person trying to scam you. And you should report for such activities.

If not then person either just messing with you, or doesn't understand that there's no such thing a dupe items.


No you can't be banned for someone reporting you, if you didn't do anything to begin with, and again FYI dupe items doesn't exist, no one can dupe items.

No he has not showed any suspicious websites or asked for my login details but told me to trade with the person and that he was trying to help me.

Then yes it was a scam and you want to report both of them, also I suggest blocking them as well.

Future Pro tip: Support/etc will never ask anything from you, they won't contact you ever unless you contacted them 1st for help as that's the only way to get them to say anything to you.

If someone claims to be working for, working with, or claiming to be support, sent you fake photoshops gif / pictures and etc, report them ASAP, and block them without hesitation, as they claim that you have a pending ban, which is also going to be a lie as support will never tell anyone, or inform anyone, as there's no such thing as pending bans.

Never login from 3rd party websites.

Never share login details with anyone, or over unsecured service/device.

[Shiki]

Publicado originalmente por Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Publicado originalmente por 神戸:

No he has not showed any suspicious websites or asked for my login details but told me to trade with the person and that he was trying to help me.

Then yes it was a scam and you want to report both of them, also I suggest blocking them as well.

Already did.