contacting valve fraud moderators

[reigen arataka]

does anyone know how to contact a valve fraud moderator because someone accidentally reported my account and told me to contact someone on discord, they arent accepting my request and i have to contact someone in like 2 hours or my account gets banned. i looked up how to contact valve fraud mods too and it gave me no answer - edited thanks peoplefor telling me its a scam im an idiot and fell for it coz it looked legit

[The Emperor Of Mankind]

That's a scam. No such thing exists. Furthermore, if Steam was going to ban your account, there wouldn't be a warning.

[MBK]

They are trying to scam you, report and block them

[ReBoot]

Report the "reporter", block, move on.
And grow common sense, some random dude says you need to contact some other random dude. The chain of trust is a useful concept.

[OPA]

Here something to read
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=177244559&insideModal=0

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=784477482&insideModal=0

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by leonlvr:

does anyone know how to contact a valve fraud moderator because someone accidentally reported my account and told me to contact someone on discord, they arent accepting my request and i have to contact someone in like 2 hours or my account gets banned.

Pattern of scam:

Bait, story, steps


Legitimate things allways let you research the things on your own without someone telling you: Rush and dont think, rush THAT way!

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by leonlvr:

does anyone know how to contact a valve fraud moderator because someone accidentally reported my account and told me to contact someone on discord

1. It's a scam, they're trying to trick you to talk to someone that be impersonating someone to trick you to logging into fake site, or trick you to give login info, or etc...

2. There no accidentally reported, what happens is support ignore the report if there nothing that breaking rules.

3. Support does not do discord chat, they don't do phone calls, VOIP, texting, or etc. There only one way to contact support, and that via Steam ticket system which is steam help section on the site, no where else.

Originally posted by leonlvr:

, they arent accepting my request and i have to contact someone in like 2 hours or my account gets banned. i looked up how to contact valve fraud mods too and it gave me no answer - edited thanks peoplefor telling me its a scam im an idiot and fell for it coz it looked legit

If you click any links from these scammers, and you login, you need to change password ASAP, do not wait, and do not trade any item.

Do these 5 steps to secured your account.
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.

[Supafly]

It's a scam

Do you get warned you going to get arrested in 2 hours? No. They'd do it and you'd have to prove your innocence.

Valve will also investigate. The biggest evidence you have that tells Valve you haven't done what that persons supposedly reported you for is the first thing they'd see. You've had 0 contact with that person besides the report. If you've had no contact with them how could you have possibly done what they claim??

[shadowless]

i almost just got scammed like this.

they messaged me via my discord. they told me a story of how they "accidentally" reported my steam account and that imma get banned in 3 hours. they then make you add another discord account posing as a steam moderator.

that account then asked to see my purchase history. good thing steam doesnt show any personal info on these pages otherwise i was gonna be ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

they told me to log out of my steam account so that they could "run a program" to check if the "report" was actually valid. i did log out.

but then i got a message on my phone that steam sent me a verification code to change my steam credentials. and the scammers asked me to type that code in the discord chat.

luckily i found this discussion in time to realize they were scammers. bc if i did send the code to them they prolly wouldve changed my email, phone number and password and locked me out of my acc.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by shadowless:

they told me to log out of my steam account so that they could "run a program" to check if the "report" was actually valid. i did log out.

What would scammer "admins" do without the users help......

[spellingfoutTTV]

Originally posted by shadowless:

i almost just got scammed like this.

they messaged me via my discord. they told me a story of how they "accidentally" reported my steam account and that imma get banned in 3 hours. they then make you add another discord account posing as a steam moderator.

that account then asked to see my purchase history. good thing steam doesnt show any personal info on these pages otherwise i was gonna be ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

they told me to log out of my steam account so that they could "run a program" to check if the "report" was actually valid. i did log out.

but then i got a message on my phone that steam sent me a verification code to change my steam credentials. and the scammers asked me to type that code in the discord chat.

luckily i found this discussion in time to realize they were scammers. bc if i did send the code to them they prolly wouldve changed my email, phone number and password and locked me out of my acc.

This just happened to me, but the only difference is that I have mobile steam guard enabled, so they asked me to "Temporarily" disable it for them to check if there's been any illegal activity.

Weird how steam would add a steam guard to protect people from scammers, when their own programs wouldn't be able to bypass it lol

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by spellingfout:

Originally posted by shadowless:

i almost just got scammed like this.

they messaged me via my discord. they told me a story of how they "accidentally" reported my steam account and that imma get banned in 3 hours. they then make you add another discord account posing as a steam moderator.

that account then asked to see my purchase history. good thing steam doesnt show any personal info on these pages otherwise i was gonna be ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

they told me to log out of my steam account so that they could "run a program" to check if the "report" was actually valid. i did log out.

but then i got a message on my phone that steam sent me a verification code to change my steam credentials. and the scammers asked me to type that code in the discord chat.

luckily i found this discussion in time to realize they were scammers. bc if i did send the code to them they prolly wouldve changed my email, phone number and password and locked me out of my acc.

This just happened to me, but the only difference is that I have mobile steam guard enabled, so they asked me to "Temporarily" disable it for them to check if there's been any illegal activity.

Weird how steam would add a steam guard to protect people from scammers, when their own programs wouldn't be able to bypass it lol

Do you really, seriously, honestly believe, an employee would als you to disable Steam guard?

[Supafly]

Originally posted by spellingfout:

This just happened to me,

No it didn't, you clearly have not read the thread. You got scammed by scammers NOT Steam employees

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by spellingfout:

Originally posted by shadowless:

i almost just got scammed like this.

they messaged me via my discord. they told me a story of how they "accidentally" reported my steam account and that imma get banned in 3 hours. they then make you add another discord account posing as a steam moderator.

that account then asked to see my purchase history. good thing steam doesnt show any personal info on these pages otherwise i was gonna be ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

they told me to log out of my steam account so that they could "run a program" to check if the "report" was actually valid. i did log out.

but then i got a message on my phone that steam sent me a verification code to change my steam credentials. and the scammers asked me to type that code in the discord chat.

luckily i found this discussion in time to realize they were scammers. bc if i did send the code to them they prolly wouldve changed my email, phone number and password and locked me out of my acc.

This just happened to me, but the only difference is that I have mobile steam guard enabled, so they asked me to "Temporarily" disable it for them to check if there's been any illegal activity.

Weird how steam would add a steam guard to protect people from scammers, when their own programs wouldn't be able to bypass it lol

Steam Guard protects people from malware credential capture - it doesn't protect against people that remove it or give it away to phishing logins.

If the scammers are asking you to remove your Guard then they likely have your login name and password which is not good news. That's like someone pretending to be from the police asking you to remove your doors and windows from your house to see if there is anything weird going on. Surely you wouldn't believe that...

[Missy]

Someone did this to me just now. but lucky when he ask me to confirm the code on my steam. I got a vibes that this is a scam because, no admin or moderator will ask about your verification code on your account.

[[ff0000]The Angel]

It’s a scam, 100% sure.

I almost got scammed by adding a "Brouteur" (as we call them in France) showing me images of "fraudulent transactions" and a fake "report" from them.

I got Infos on the guy if anyone wants them.