steam avatar BANNED cause i have ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on profile wtf why?

[vitros ⁷⁵ʰᶻ csgoskins]

??? XD

banned for 3 weeks damn

[Wolf Knight]

stop using your name and avatar to advertise, its not allowed.

[Theblaze]

Your question already tells me you haven't read the terms of service, or the community guidelines that tells you WHY.

[Wolf Knight]

3 weeks, is that the 3rd or 4th infraction?

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Wolf Knight:

3 weeks, is that the 3rd or 4th infraction?

likely compounded with their profile name being in violation

its also likely they've tried to do this multiple times with different aliasse/pictures

[♥♥tutor♥♥tαrα♥♥]

Originally posted by profile pic banned for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ :

steam avatar BANNED cause i have ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on profile wtf why?

??? XD

banned for 3 weeks damn

It has always been against the rules for Steam users to advertise on Steam. Recently Steam support has been enforcing that rule on profiles as well as on the forums, guides, workshop, screenshots, and artwork.

If you have a three week ban, that probably means that this is not the first time that you have broken a rule like this. The next ban might be permanent, so, as Wolf Knight said, you should stop using your profile name and profile picture to advertise, or you might lose the ability to choose a profile name and profile picture on this account.

You might want to read the rules.

Content Rules

Do not post any content on Steam containing the following:

Soliciting, begging, auctioning, raffling, selling, advertising, referrals

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=143962136

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Read Colt ☶'s reply here...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3084376689329674363/#c3084376689333487455

Or Matt's here...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3084376689325300325/#c3084376689328232714

[HikiDay]

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[Mad Scientist]

Stop advertising scam/phishing sites then, and change your name to something that isn't still advertising it.

[Matt]

Yeah, please don’t advertise these sites in your name or avatar. It’s not allowed. Thanks

[vitros ⁷⁵ʰᶻ csgoskins]

but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are not scaming also keydrop lol? xD

[Teksura]

Originally posted by profile pic banned for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ :

but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are not scaming also keydrop lol? xD

Yes, they are. They're a known scam site known for stealing items (and then giving scammed users the runaround sending them on a fools errand and blaming steam support for their theft.) and hijacking accounts. We see lots of threads about them here.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by profile pic banned for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ :

but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are not scaming also keydrop lol? xD

They're both well known scam and phishing sites. It's not a matter of "if", but "when" it happens to you. Some people it happens as soon as they start using it, others it'll be a while - otherwise everyone would know right away that it's the site being malicious, hence why it's when not if.

[Fake]

And this is one of the reasons why people get their accounts hijacked. Stop giving your Steam credentials away.

Just because some site offers you a few things, you'll willingly give your account away. It's no different than getting a email from a Nigerian prince that offer you millions.

[Teksura]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Originally posted by profile pic banned for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ :

but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are not scaming also keydrop lol? xD

They're both well known scam and phishing sites. It's not a matter of "if", but "when" it happens to you. Some people it happens as soon as they start using it, others it'll be a while - otherwise everyone would know right away that it's the site being malicious, hence why it's when not if.

Exactly. The site follows these patterns:

Many people will never get scammed. They don't want to do it to every single person or else their lies won't work.
They trick users into advertising for them with promises of freebies or something else if they rope others into using the site or advertise for them.
People who haven't been scammed yet have the experience they expect, and tend to get very defensive and refuse to believe that the known scam site is known for scamming others because it hasn't happened to them personally yet. And often will continue to believe this even after it does.

The scams itself come in 1 of 2 ways, usually.

1: Stolen items. This happens when you go to "deposit" something of high value to their bot. They take the item and do not credit you for it. Then you contact them about it and they insist that they never got it. You show them the proof that the item was sent to them by providing a screenshot of your trade history, and they blow you off insisting it's a "Steam bug" and tell you to contact Steam Support, insisting it's a "common bug" and try and get your anger redirected at Steam rather than the jerks who blatantly stole your item.

2: Stolen Accounts. This happens when they redirect you to a fake login page and simply ask you for your login info. Your account gets hijacked and 2 things can happen from here:

2a: They use the API to set up a bot on your account to redirect trades you send to a bot they control, stealing your items ad you approve the trade.

2b: They seize control of the account entirely, and sell use of it to hackers who want an account they can use for a short time before the account gets VAC banned for using cheats.


And this happens all the time. So frequently that everyone here is familiar with it as it's not hard to find threads about it.

This is why Steam blocks mention of the site.