Impersonating account?

[DrMads]

I got the second dm this week, saying my account is being impersonated by someone scamming people. I dont know who to believe anymore. They also reported my account several times because my main and only account was linked to theirs. Help? Does anyone know what I should do?

[Umbrella]

Block and ignore whoever is sending you DMs.

If your account is secure and only you have access to it, you don't need to care about what anyone says about anything. If someone is impersonating you and scamming people that's not really your concern, the people who got scammed should have been more careful.

[ElvisDeadly]

It's the opening to a scam.

No one is impersonating you and no one is reporting you.

They want to trick you into talking to a Steam 'admin' who is part of the scam in order to get access to your account login.

Report and block all involved

[DrMads]

Ok thank you!

[Donitsi]

Common sense is important. If somebody is impersonating you that is not your problem, reporting you also doesn't cause any trouble to you because you're not the scammer.

Ignore everybody who say that you were accidentally reported or you need to contact "Admin" or "Support" through their links or on Discord.

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have a nice day, set profile as private. See ya

[DrMads]

ok

[N3R0]

I've been getting messages like these for at least 2 weeks now, it's getting really annoying. I've already set my profile to private but they still keep coming, anything else to do?

[Cathulhu]

Block, report and move on.
Additionally, leave the groups you share with those scammers.

[DrMads]

Originally posted by N3R0:

I've been getting messages like these for at least 2 weeks now, it's getting really annoying. I've already set my profile to private but they still keep coming, anything else to do?

I doubt they will stop because they most likely have already seen your inventory and want your account for the games. Idek. And if possible turn off dms from strangers. That should get it to stop

[Donitsi]

Originally posted by N3R0:

I've been getting messages like these for at least 2 weeks now, it's getting really annoying. I've already set my profile to private but they still keep coming, anything else to do?

Are you in big Steam groups? I don't know how situation is now but I remember years ago when people were told to avoid huge Steam groups because bots in those groups would bombard everybody with invites and scams over and over again.

I have gotten 2 scam invites in one month but they halted after that. Maybe I was added from forums because we didn't even share similar games.

[N3R0]

Originally posted by Donitsi:

Originally posted by N3R0:

I've been getting messages like these for at least 2 weeks now, it's getting really annoying. I've already set my profile to private but they still keep coming, anything else to do?

Are you in big Steam groups? I don't know how situation is now but I remember years ago when people were told to avoid huge Steam groups because bots in those groups would bombard everybody with invites and scams over and over again.

I have gotten 2 scam invites in one month but they halted after that. Maybe I was added from forums because we didn't even share similar games.

Yes but I left all of them yesterday since I didn't get much use of them anyway, so hopefully it resolves things.

[Donitsi]

Originally posted by N3R0:

Yes but I left all of them yesterday since I didn't get much use of them anyway, so hopefully it resolves things.

You should keep us updated after few days. This may help somebody in the future.

[N3R0]

Originally posted by Donitsi:

Originally posted by N3R0:

Yes but I left all of them yesterday since I didn't get much use of them anyway, so hopefully it resolves things.

You should keep us updated after few days. This may help somebody in the future.

Yep, spam messages stopped as soon as I left those groups.
Just a little heads up for everyone, despite leaving a Steam trading card group, I was still logged into its group chat, which I noticed when I brought up Steam Overlay, so be sure to check that too if spam persists.