account flagging

[イレギュラー]

I have a question, How does steam notify you that your account has been flagged? I received a message from someone through the steam friend messaging service, claiming they are I find that hard to believe they are "I'm the technical administrator of steam." Shouldn't they only ever speak to me by email?

[nullable]

Not through Steam chat. Sounds like you're being groomed for a classic scam..

There's actually very little reason for a person to reach out to you. Almost nothing that happens on your account is so unique it would warrant any kind of direct/manual intervention that warrants communicating with you.

[イレギュラー]

Originally posted by Snakub Plissken:

Not through Steam chat. Sounds like you're being groomed for a classic scam..

I figured as much thanks for responding

[my new friend]

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B

[rawWwRrr]

They would not reach out to you through chat.

If your account was flagged in any meaningful way, you'd see a red banner notification on the site which would include the reason for the notification and a link to open a Support ticket with your questions or to seek clarification on the issue.

[イレギュラー]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

They would not reach out to you through chat.

If your account was flagged in any meaningful way, you'd see a red banner notification on the site which would include the reason for the notification and a link to open a Support ticket with your questions or to seek clarification on the issue.

This was what I looking for when I looking around on google, thank you, now I know.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Irregular Dude:

I have a question, How does steam notify you that your account has been flagged? I received a message from someone through the steam friend messaging service, claiming they are I find that hard to believe they are "I'm the technical administrator of steam." Shouldn't they only ever speak to me by email?

If you get a forum warning, or ban you see in your community message.
https://steamcommunity.com/my/moderatormessages

For account related you get a yellow, or red box appear when you login, or pop up while login.

Just like snakub pointed, it's a scam if someone trying to reach out to you saying you're ban, or reported. Here some tips, and info to help you learn more about internet safety.

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Here are the most common reason people get accounts hijack for any service really are as followed.
- Sharing account infomation with others. <--- Very common with impersonators, pretending to be Steam admin / support.
- Logging in on phishing sites. <--- Very common with skin gambling sites.
- Downloading / Installing Virus / Keylogger on your system.
- Using public devices that has keyloggers, such as cyber cafe, school computers, and etc...
- Storing your login credentials on a unsecured service that others has access to view.
- Using same login credentials for all your things, or using same login credentials on another service that had a data leak. Yes it does matter because even if it not related to Steam, if using same login credentials, hijackers will try to use those credentials to see what services you use with those credentials. https://haveibeenpwned.com/

https://youtu.be/9TRR6lHviQc

The type of story scammers say to you.

- "Hey vote for my team", and they link you a phishing site link, and try get you to login.

- "Hey I can't add you, please add me", and they try to start their scam with you.

- If you're friend with someone that got their account hijacked, you get scam message like, "I report you", "you been banned", and whatever to try scare you, and they tell you to trade your items to them, or if you have a login to phishing site may have a API key on account that redirect trades, they ask you to give them money, or etc...

- If you already got your account compromise by them, they change your display name to banned, or whatever, your display picture as well, they may delete your friends, and try to spend your wallet funds if you have any, also trade all your items, but if they see if you have mobile authenticator attached, they play their scam to get you to confirm the trade to get your items off your account to their account quicker if they're able to trick you into confirming the trade.


I show you few examples.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2329645315
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2570975058

https://youtu.be/JuWHCBeZrqI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kook1DlxDAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DDnV-MHSaY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfTXxLraokE

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/4956744526904317093/#c4956744526904653890

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by Irregular Dude:

"I'm the technical administrator of steam."

That's pretty funny! There are no admins on Steam and nobody will contact you through the chat system regarding account issues. Steam Support are the only ones that deal with such things and this is done through tickets within the client when you are logged in or email correspondence if you don't have access to your account.