Anyone know how to tell if a Valve steam account is legit?

[Katevce]

Right now I'm dealing with some guy on my friends list saying he accidentally reported me for duped items in TF2 and now the suppossed guy who works for valve is showing me some (honestly pretty fake looking) screenshots of my account and some ban buttons. I'm pretty sure it's a scam attempt because as soon as I called both of them out on it they stopped responding. Still though it wouldn't hurt to know. I even checked the Valve steam group and I didn't see him on there so I don't know if that counts for anything.

Also sorry if this is in the wrong discussion I don't use these forums much if at all.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Scam.

Report all users, block and move on.

Valve employees will never be a part of any trade you make.

[Katevce]

Nice. Thanks.

[Jay]

check the badge list, they all got steam employee badge

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by ♛ Jℯℛℯℳỿ ♛:

check the badge list, they all got steam employee badge

Valve employees will never be a part of users trades.

[Katevce]

Yeah this guy just put VALVE in his user name. I've already blocked him and reported them both. All should be good now. I could just put his name here, but I've read that's against the rules or something, so I don't know. I probably wont.

[mimizukari]

they have a steam employee badge, plus you can find them on the global moderator list https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/moderators (if that doesn't link directly to the person you're talking to, immediately block and report the user.)

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Liezerota:

they have a steam employee badge, plus you can find them on the global moderator list https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/moderators (if that doesn't link directly to the person you're talking to, immediately block and report the user.)

It would never link back to an employee account in a trade. NEVER.

[Katevce]

Originally posted by Liezerota:

they have a steam employee badge, plus you can find them on the global moderator list https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/moderators (if that doesn't link directly to the person you're talking to, immediately block and report the user.)

Thank you. This cleared up a lot.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Liezerota:

they have a steam employee badge, plus you can find them on the global moderator list https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/moderators (if that doesn't link directly to the person you're talking to, immediately block and report the user.)

It would never link back to an employee account in a trade. NEVER.

:qr:

I've traded with valve employee's before... they're just like anyone else, drunken f00l trades a lot.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Liezerota:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

It would never link back to an employee account in a trade. NEVER.

I've traded with valve employee's before... they're just like anyone else, drunken f00l trades a lot.

A third user is never needed in a trade between 2 users.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Liezerota:

I've traded with valve employee's before... they're just like anyone else, drunken f00l trades a lot.

A third user is never needed in a trade between 2 users.

:qr:

middleman trading is actually a fairly common process when doing trades involving real money... users like:
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198050680230
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561197982522773
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198075149906
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198088748682
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198084533601

outside of those 5, I don't think I'd trust anyone for middleman trading.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Liezerota:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

A third user is never needed in a trade between 2 users.

middleman trading is actually a fairly common process when doing trades involving real money... users like:
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198050680230
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561197982522773
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198075149906
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198088748682
https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198084533601

outside of those 5, I don't think I'd trust anyone for middleman trading.

And none of that has nothing to do with Steam at all since it involves real money. Something that is not a part of the Recommended Trading Practices on Steam and is not supported by Valve at all.

[a1ex MVP]

This actually happened to me today as well. Exactly the same story as you mentioned. I reported both accounts fast.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by Katevce:

Right now I'm dealing with some guy on my friends list saying he accidentally reported me for duped items in TF2 and now the suppossed guy who works for valve is showing me some (honestly pretty fake looking) screenshots of my account and some ban buttons. I'm pretty sure it's a scam attempt because as soon as I called both of them out on it they stopped responding. Still though it wouldn't hurt to know. I even checked the Valve steam group and I didn't see him on there so I don't know if that counts for anything.

Also sorry if this is in the wrong discussion I don't use these forums much if at all.

They have a badge, they also will not discuss account actions through chat/discord any of that. Any discussion or alerts related to your account will be initiated through an email to your accounts associated email address.

[Juicy J]

I wish I had a friend at valve so I could ban these losers immediately.