I got VAC banned even I never used any cheat. I dont even know how to use!

[DeadShot]

Please help me to activate my account. Why am I banned??? I never used any cheat!

[HikariLight]

There is no ban showing on your profile. If someone is contacting you saying your gonna get banned it is a scam. Block and report them.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

If anyone claims to be admin, support, or etc that contact you, it's a scam flat out, don't even need to think about it, as no one should ever be contacting you. Only way support reply to you, is YOU contacting them 1st via Steam ticket in the help section no where else, as they don't do live chat, discord, twitter, Steam chat, phone call, sms texting, VoIP of any kind, mailing, emailing, or etc, only ticket via Steam help page.

If anyone contacting you say they reported you, or said they're gonna ban you for cheating, etc, all that is just scam to try scare you to do what they want.

If your account name, or profile got edited by someone, then means your account is compromise.

Do these 5 steps to ensure account isn't compromised.
1. Scan for malware. https://www.malwarebytes.com/

2. Change password, if another service you use same old password, ensure change that too.

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

4. Generate new backup codes. https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage

5. Revoke the API key. https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey <--- Should be nothing there.


Here tips, and examples to help you give an ideal of types of scams, and phishing attacks that happens online daily that people can fall for, doesn't matter if you think it won't happen to you, it can happen if not paying attention, as some are very good tricks.

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

[Supafly]

No ban on profile, sure it's not a VAC authentication error?
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/9/2828702372991195767/

[DeadShot]

Originally posted by HikariLight:

There is no ban showing on your profile. If someone is contacting you saying your gonna get banned it is a scam. Block and report them.

its not someone says. when I wanna start a match. It says Vac didnt recognize your log in )translated from turkish) something like that .suddenly happened after my match.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by DeadShot:

Originally posted by HikariLight:

There is no ban showing on your profile. If someone is contacting you saying your gonna get banned it is a scam. Block and report them.

its not someone says. when I wanna start a match. It says Vac didnt recognize your log in )translated from turkish) something like that .suddenly happened after my match.

Click on link what supafly posted.

You're not ban.

[DeadShot]

Originally posted by Supafly:

No ban on profile, sure it's not a VAC authentication error?
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/9/2828702372991195767/

helpded. Thanks a lot