Swippy4Hire Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:08am
Trade offer
I got suspended for a bot spam report so i traded my expensive items to my bothers account via trade offer. he accepted the offer but the items never went into his inventory. they aren't in my inventory either. i look at our trade history and it says it went through but the items aren't in both of our inventories. im not sure what to do. please help.

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Cathulhu Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:17am 
You were scammed. Whoever told you that you were reported was the scammer.
Your account was compromised, you didn't check the recipient properly when you confirmed the trade and now your items are gone. Forever.

Secure your account, stop compromising your account and stop believing nonsense total strangers tell you.
Swippy4Hire Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:28am 
steam them selves restricted my account. im not sure how they would have taken my items when it was traded to my bros account. it most definitely was his account. i have screen shots of our trade offer. i made sure it was his account. the scammers didnt have access to mine, i have two step authentication on. i was on the phone with my brother while we were trading and he accepted the trade. not sure how the intercepted the items. hopefully that clears that up for ya. just hoping i can get my items back.
J4MESOX4D Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:28am 
Your trade history should show the account that it went to. There is no such thing as a 'suspended for a bot spam report' so you were clearly compromised as said above and you were baited into making a trade which was intercepted by scammers who impersonated your intended target.

You need to secure your account by deathorising all other devices, changing your password on a device that's clean, generating new Steam Guard codes. Also stop using scam sites.
Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:31am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
You were scammed. Whoever told you that you were reported was the scammer.
Your account was compromised, you didn't check the recipient properly when you confirmed the trade and now your items are gone. Forever.

Secure your account, stop compromising your account and stop believing nonsense total strangers tell you.
^This.

Also OP if anyone contact you saying they're gonna ban you, claim they reported you, or claim to be support, and then ask you to do things for them, should automatically be a red flag.

Support has no reason to contact you as Steam has a ticket system, and only reply when you make a ticket via Steam help page, no where else, there no pending bans, when a ban happen it just happen there no pending, nor removing them, and you don't get ban just because someone reported you that not how that works.

So you fell for scam big time, and for how you got your account compromise, is either you hand login to someone, or login on a phishing site that got access to your account.
Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:36am 
Originally posted by Swippy4Hire:
steam them selves restricted my account. im not sure how they would have taken my items when it was traded to my bros account. it most definitely was his account. i have screen shots of our trade offer. i made sure it was his account. the scammers didnt have access to mine, i have two step authentication on. i was on the phone with my brother while we were trading and he accepted the trade. not sure how the intercepted the items. hopefully that clears that up for ya. just hoping i can get my items back.
When scammers have access to your account, they put API on it, when you make a trade, the API trigger scammer bot, switch the trade target, and not copy name, and display picture of the target you tried to trade with to trick you that how it works.


Your not first person that falls for scams like this.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3719440044279543741/#c3719440044279595558
Swippy4Hire Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:36am 
well that sucks. just got back into csgo from being gone for over 5 years, unboxed some awesome knives and this happens. they must have changed my name to random numbers and changed my bio to make it seem like it was steam to trade my items away. im still not sure how i traded them to my bros account and they still get them.
Swippy4Hire Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:39am 
thanks for the quick replys guys. going to stay on minecraft from now on.
J4MESOX4D Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:39am 
Originally posted by Swippy4Hire:
well that sucks. just got back into csgo from being gone for over 5 years, unboxed some awesome knives and this happens. they must have changed my name to random numbers and changed my bio to make it seem like it was steam to trade my items away. im still not sure how i traded them to my bros account and they still get them.
You weren't trading to your brother's account - you were sending them to the scammers who were impersonating your intended target. Make sure your report the recipient account but that's all you can do aside from urgently securing your account.
Wolf Knight Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:40am 
Originally posted by Swippy4Hire:
well that sucks. just got back into csgo from being gone for over 5 years, unboxed some awesome knives and this happens. they must have changed my name to random numbers and changed my bio to make it seem like it was steam to trade my items away. im still not sure how i traded them to my bros account and they still get them.
your trade to your brother was cancelled, that is the trade he accepted. the scammers use bots, when you made the trade to your brother, the bot copied what it could from your brothers account, cancelled the trade, and then made a new one going to the scammers account.
Swippy4Hire Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:44am 
this happened over 2 months ago and i have since secured my account. i was just trying to see if there was a hope.
J4MESOX4D Dec 29, 2022 @ 8:55am 
Originally posted by Swippy4Hire:
this happened over 2 months ago and i have since secured my account. i was just trying to see if there was a hope.
Then why say this https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3729575504112257979/?tscn=1672307083#c3729575504112308319 if you knew what was going on?
Swippy4Hire Dec 29, 2022 @ 9:13am 
what do you you mean...? i didnt know what was going on until these people enlightened me. obviously if i think my account is threatened, im going to secure it.
Teksura Dec 29, 2022 @ 9:31am 
Originally posted by Swippy4Hire:
steam them selves restricted my account.
No, they didn't. If they had done so you wouldn't be allowed to trade at all.

Originally posted by Swippy4Hire:
im not sure how they would have taken my items when it was traded to my bros account. it most definitely was his account.
It most definitely was not.




Scan for malware https://www.malwarebytes.com/
Deauthorize all other devices https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
Change passwords from a clean computer
Generate new backup codes https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
Revoke the API key https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey
Stop using shady third party trade sites or clicking suspicious links.


Do each of the steps.



What happened is your account became compromised, most likely through a third party site. This well known scam then requires you to authorize the trade giving your items away after you allow them access to your account through either malware, or giving away your details through a phishing fake login page or other trick used by those shady third party sites.

The way it does this is after it gains access to your account, a bot waits until you send out a trade offer, and then using the access you gave to them, their bot cancels the trade, changes a bot account to match the name and profile picture of the person you wanted to trade with, and then sends a trade giving your stuff away for free.

The scam depends on you ignoring all the warnings, such as "this user is not on your friends list", "this user has a similar name to someone on your friends list", their items missing from the offer, the big "you will receive nothing" text, the fact that they have the wrong level, wrong "has been on Steam since" date (usually obviously too recent to make sense), and a few other obvious warnings. It only works if you're not even looking at what you're doing. Sadly, an awful lot of people don't care enough to verify the trade is what they are expecting, so this scam continues to work.

Valve will not return items you gifted away to the scammer as a result of ignoring all the warnings.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9958-MJDG-3003

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B
Last edited by Teksura; Dec 29, 2022 @ 9:32am
Dr.Shadowds 🐉 Dec 29, 2022 @ 9:31am 
Originally posted by Swippy4Hire:
what do you you mean...? i didnt know what was going on until these people enlightened me. obviously if i think my account is threatened, im going to secure it.
Do all 5 steps.
1. Scan for malware https://www.malwarebytes.com/

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

3. Change passwords from a clean computer.

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

5. Revoke all API keys https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey


If need more help understanding, visit here.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3719440044279543741/#c3719440044279581804

Originally posted by J4MESOX4D:
Also read here https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B
^ Visit this link as well.
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