Violation of my rights

[Dani dufkata]

So a Steam employ contacted me about a "stolen" skin, I gave them all the information, and they asked me to transfer all my inventory to another account or a friend. They said that it is for a legalization of the items, and it will take up to 48 hours. It is more than 96 hours and I have no response from them.

The question is, if anyone knows to whom, and where I should send the court order? As they just scammed me and don't answer me at all. After I tried to contact them, they just closed the case without an answer and nothing happened, so I'm going to the next level, and I'm going to court for the scam they just did. They added themselves as friend, blocked all my friends, except the one I chose to trade my items to. My steam guard wasn't working when I had to accept to send the trade and they fixed it, it doesn't sound like someone else did it then the Steam support.

[Aluvard]

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Lilim の投稿を引用：

Secure your account and remove the fake VAC ban from your profile!

What are you waiting for?

How to remove a VAC ban alert? It only allows me to click on it and shows me what VAC ban means.

First - follow the instruction posted by @CrazyTiger in first post, then worry about editing profile text.

[Neo]

Congrats you removed the fake VAC ban, but unfortunately until you secure your account the scammer can just put it back again. Among other things.

Your priority should be to follow the steps to secure your account. /facepalm

[nullable]

It's always fun to see a user get there eventually. Like I get it, why believe a bunch of randos on a forum, even though you posted on a forum to get advice from a bunch of randos.

One part tunnel vision, one part still being sold on the scam, one part not knowing this happens so commonly most regular users can identify the scam with a fraction of a sentence worth of description.

And of course you're not going to want to believe you were so thoroughly fooled and just gave your items away to a scammer. But scams are sophisticated and are designed to exploit human weaknesses we all have, and like it or not OP you're just a regular human like the rest of us. Education about these issues can help protect you a lot though. You've seen or are in the process of seeing how a lack of knowledge/experience can be dangerous. Hopefully it's a lesson you only have to learn once.

[J4MESOX4D]

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Ogami の投稿を引用：

Because then they have to admit that its their own fault for not securing their account correctly,clicking on an infected link or using a infected 3rd party trading site and then falling for a really obvious fake story and giving away their items.

Some people cant just admit that they are wrong and so they double and triple down on their view point of things, no matter how wrong it is.
Its always easier to blame someone else then to admit to own mistaked.
Common human behaviour, much worse online.

So you are saying anyone can just add the VAC ban notice to your account without touching any game? I can send you and screenshot for proof if you want.

Of course. Your account was hijacked so the scammers just added a fake message in your profile description to make you think the account was in trouble and so you'd trade your items which they would steal. There is no such thing as a VAC ban notice - the fact you've already edited this out just shows how easy it was for scammers to put it there.

Steam Support do not have accounts and they don't add themselves to people's profiles either - those were scammers. Support only respond to tickets. It's crazy that you've fallen for this.

[Dani dufkata]

Thank you guys, all of you for the help, I changed everything, but still don’t have an answer from the support about the items and how the scammers caught the link so I can send them the items instead of my friend.

[Ettanin]

Dani dufkata の投稿を引用：

Thank you guys, all of you for the help, I changed everything, but still don’t have an answer from the support about the items and how the scammers caught the link so I can send them the items instead of my friend.

This is simple to answer:

The scammer has placed an API key on your account through which every single step can be observed as well as actioned upon.

The items are gone for good. Valve won't restore them.

[Supafly]

When you sent a trade to your friend the hijackers BOT cancelled it. It then modified their account to look like your friends and resent the trade to an account the BOT made to look like your friends, all with a few seconds so you didn't notice a delay. You then ignored the warning about the target NOT being a friend and confirmed the trade.

[Brian9824]

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Dani dufkata の投稿を引用：

Thank you guys, all of you for the help, I changed everything, but still don’t have an answer from the support about the items and how the scammers caught the link so I can send them the items instead of my friend.

support doesn't restore items typically, usually scammers are able to hijack your account if you use sign in with steam on dodgy sites

Your account will NEVER be hijacked with sign in thru steam, its 100% secure. The only way to do it is if you actually type in your user name, password, and authenticator into the scam sites.

[Supafly]

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Dani dufkata の投稿を引用：

Thank you guys, all of you for the help, I changed everything, but still don’t have an answer from the support about the items and how the scammers caught the link so I can send them the items instead of my friend.

support doesn't restore items typically, usually scammers are able to hijack your account if you use sign in with steam on dodgy sites

To use third party sites the safe way to do it is

1. Open Web browser
2. Login on Steams Official page
3. Visit Third party site
4. Look for and use the one click login button/signin with Steam
5. If 4 doesn't work and you're asked for you username, password and Guard code your on a phishing site. LEAVE and DO NOT use again it is NOT using Signin with Steam it's faking the signin with Steam icon to phish users data

[Supafly]

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brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Your account will NEVER be hijacked with sign in thru steam, its 100% secure. The only way to do it is if you actually type in your user name, password, and authenticator into the scam sites.

that is incorrect, when you use sign in with steam the site can create keys and utilize them since you granted them permission to do so. hijack in this case means to manipulate trading not total takeover of the account. please don't spread misinformation.

Not correct. Your talking about the tokens that save you as being logged in and they get taken via Malware on your system or by a hacker in your system. The signin with Steam itself is secure the only way your account gets compromised when using signin with Steam via a website is when it's a FAKE signin with Steam button which has a user enter their username, password and Steam Guard code. This is phishing and then the sites create Api keys and stuff. This is NOT how the official Signin with Steam works.

[Supafly]

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Supafly の投稿を引用：

Not correct. Your talking about the tokens that save you as being logged in and they get taken via Malware on your system or by a hacker in your system. The signin with Steam itself is secure the only way your account gets compromised when using signin with Steam via a website is when it's a FAKE signin with Steam button

no, i'll let you die on that hill though. go ahead and try it for yourself. encouraging the idea that people are safe logging into malicious sites is a grievous error.

READ WHAT I WROTE

I said PHISHING SITES FAKE IT so users DO NOT use nor are compromised by Signin with Steam. I even told you the correct way to use Signin with Steam that doesn't NOT have you enter your login credentials which means your account does NOT get compromised. I'll quote it again since you missed it

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Daddy の投稿を引用：

support doesn't restore items typically, usually scammers are able to hijack your account if you use sign in with steam on dodgy sites

To use third party sites the safe way to do it is

1. Open Web browser
2. Login on Steams Official page
3. Visit Third party site
4. Look for and use the one click login button/signin with Steam
5. If 4 doesn't work and you're asked for you username, password and Guard code your on a phishing site. LEAVE and DO NOT use again it is NOT using Signin with Steam it's faking the signin with Steam icon to phish users data

[Supafly]

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Supafly の投稿を引用：

READ WHAT I WROTE

I said PHISHING SITES FAKE IT so users DO NOT use nor are compromised by Signin with Steam. I even told you the correct way to use Signin with Steam that doesn't NOT have you enter your login credentials which means your account does NOT get compromised. I'll quote it again since you missed it

you missed my key point, yours is moot, ignoring you from here on.

You MISSED MY POINT. At no point did I say logging in to phishing sites was SAFE! I then reiterated what I said. Thus No hill for me to die on

[Brian9824]

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brian9824 の投稿を引用：

Your account will NEVER be hijacked with sign in thru steam, its 100% secure. The only way to do it is if you actually type in your user name, password, and authenticator into the scam sites.

that is incorrect, when you use sign in with steam the site can create keys and utilize them since you granted them permission to do so. hijack in this case means to manipulate trading not total takeover of the account. please don't spread misinformation. when you say buzz words like 100% secure, people just sign in with steam willy nilly and then fall for trade redirect scams and fake bans.

giving the advice of signing in on known secure url with sign with steam only prevents users from submitting login info or scanning qrcodes on fake sites. it will prevent their account from being stolen but it wont prevent trade manipulation.

False, the sign in thru steam gives them no access to the account, they simply query steam and ask hey what account is this person logged into already and steam tells them. They are never told your login, let alone your password or authenticator key

No account info, no passwords, etc are sent. They cannot create API keys as third party sites do not have access to that.

There aren't any malicious sites using sign in thru steam because they can't do anything except know your account you are already logged into. The malicious sites require you to to actually enter your username, password, and authenticator key.

[Brian9824]

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Daddy の投稿を引用：

you missed my key point, yours is moot, ignoring you from here on.

You MISSED MY POINT. At no point did I say logging in to phishing sites was SAFE! I then reiterated what I said. Thus No hill for me to die on

The fake sites don't even use the sign in thru steam, they all use the old normal sign in where they ask for your user name, password and authenticator as the sign in thru steam exposes no personal information which is the point.

[Supafly]

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Supafly の投稿を引用：

You MISSED MY POINT. At no point did I say logging in to phishing sites was SAFE! I then reiterated what I said. Thus No hill for me to die on

The fake sites don't even use the sign in thru steam, they all use the old normal sign in where they ask for your user name, password and authenticator as the sign in thru steam exposes no personal information which is the point.

Was meaning to cover all versions of it, old style and any future versions that may look even more official. As phishers could make it appear as the current Signin with Steam, how it should, but then go off to phish. A fake icon direct to asking for username or they could even have them fake an error and then ask them to sign in. Either way it wouldn't be the official Sign in with Steam it'd be fake thus accounts don't get compromised via Signin thru Steam.,