new scam alert!

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Steam recently added a new family feature, currently in beta. For more details, check the Steam news. In summary, it allows you to invite up to 5 members to your family, merging all family members' games into one library (multiplayer games don't count). However, there's a scam involved: someone with a large collection of games may comment on your profile, especially if you have good skins, and offer to have you join their family so you can play their games for free. Afterward, the scammer will restrict your account, block the store, and your games. To remove the restriction, they will ask for your skins. If you give them your skins, there's no guarantee of restriction removal. Support will not help, so be careful and only join families of people you know well.

[Jerry]

There is a reason, it is called Family Sharing. Ugly scam, but the victims are intending to abuse the system as well.

[Haruspex]

Ooh, it's actually a new scam technique, unlike the other claims of a "new" scam that's actually age-old and well known.

Seems like this one once again requires the victim to willingly allow themselves to be scammed.

It will require the victim to unwittingly opt in to joining a family as a "child" account, giving the "adult" account parental controls. The only way out is to get kicked by the "adult", or with help from Steam Support.

This is one of those things that can easily be avoided with just a little awareness, but ultimately there will still be those whose greed to play free games blinds their better judgement.

Steam support will be the only way out.
Here's the support page for Steam Famlies.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithSteamIssue/?issueid=816

The victim should click "contact Steam Support" to open a ticket, and politely tell them how they did the big dumb and gave a scammer permission to apply parental controls to their account.

(Edit: Assumed OP was complaining about falling for a scam. Changed the wording so it's not aimed at anyone in particular.)

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Origineel geplaatst door ʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ:

new scam alert!

Steam recently added a new family feature, currently in beta. For more details, check the Steam news. In summary, it allows you to invite up to 5 members to your family, merging all family members' games into one library (multiplayer games don't count). However, there's a scam involved: someone with a large collection of games may comment on your profile, especially if you have good skins, and offer to have you join their family so you can play their games for free. Afterward, the scammer will restrict your account, block the store, and your games. To remove the restriction, they will ask for your skins. If you give them your skins, there's no guarantee of restriction removal. Support will not help, so be careful and only join families of people you know well.

You actively abused the new feature and they added you as a child account with Family View enabled.

This was bound to happen.

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[Jerry]

For curiosity's sake: Does the initial contact ("Hello stranger, who I have never met before, do you want to join a Family Sharing with my account, which owns an awful lot of games") happen on Steam or outside of it? For once it sounds, like it would really hurt the criminals, if their account became suspended, so if they left any evidence about the scheme here...

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Origineel geplaatst door Jerry:

For curiosity's sake: Does the initial contact ("Hello stranger, who I have never met before, do you want to join a Family Sharing with my account, which owns an awful lot of games") happen on Steam or outside of it? For once it sounds, like it would really hurt the criminals, if their account became suspended, so if they left any evidence about the scheme here...

this is really stupid, but people get scammed😂