Permanently banned for fraud in the Steam Marketplace

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studyak47 Apr 23, 2015 @ 8:06pm

Hi, my account was recently suspended on the 15th of April for "fraudulent activity" after being added by an account who wanted to buy my AK-47 Vulcan FT for wallet balance and even offered to overpay because he wanted it "trade-able". I had no idea at the time that he was defrauding steam so I accepted his offer and added my UMP on the market for $43 (http://i.imgur.com/G723Z12.png ) and then proceeded to send him my Vulcan (http://i.imgur.com/Gxd33Ae.png ).

I sent a ticket to steam a week ago and finally got a response yesterday. "We have found activity in this Steam account related to fraud within the Steam Marketplace. Per the Steam Subscriber Agreement, we have locked the account permanently. The account will not be reactivated."

Any idea what I should do? My inventory is worth ~$3000 from CS:Go trading and I have personally charged over $700 to my Steam wallet... hopefully Steam realizes that I wouldn't defraud them for $43...

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Hueza Apr 23, 2015 @ 8:46pm

nuggests

studyak47 Apr 23, 2015 @ 8:59pm

Originally posted by Nightenhelser:
You can't trade for money. That's why you're banned.

Where in the rules does it state I can't trade for wallet funds? And the reason I was banned is for "fraud within the Steam Marketplace".

HLCinSC Apr 23, 2015 @ 9:02pm

Originally posted by DWonderchild:
Originally posted by Nightenhelser:
You can't trade for money. That's why you're banned.
Where in the rules does it state I can't trade for wallet funds? And the reason I was banned is for "fraud within the Steam Marketplace".

It says not to in the trading faq, but I don't even think it is possible

wuddih Apr 23, 2015 @ 9:39pm

this was probably not the only thing considered in their decision to lock your account.

Matt Apr 23, 2015 @ 9:43pm

There's got to be more to the story than this. I don't know that selling the item for $43 was really the reason.

studyak47 Apr 23, 2015 @ 10:35pm

Originally posted by Matt:
There's got to be more to the story than this. I don't know that selling the item for $43 was really the reason.

Originally posted by wuddih:
this was probably not the only thing considered in their decision to lock your account.

Keep in mind the UMP skin i sold for $43 is worth 4 cents.

Steam specifically said that my account was locked for fraud in the Steam marketplace. Looking back in the two past month of my marketplace history, I've sold a few pages worth of cheap cs:go items and bought steam trading cards for leveling and GTA V.

Also my account was banned two days after the UMP transaction, so unless someone else had purchased an item of mine on the marketplace and charged it back, the UMP should've been the only reason I was banned by Steam.

Last edited by studyak47; Apr 23, 2015 @ 10:37pm

C²C^Guyver |NZB| Apr 23, 2015 @ 10:51pm

Originally posted by DWonderchild:
Originally posted by Nightenhelser:
You can't trade for money. That's why you're banned.
Where in the rules does it state I can't trade for wallet funds? And the reason I was banned is for "fraud within the Steam Marketplace".

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8912-WEYU-8454

Trades to Never Accept

Trades involving money:
The Steam trading interface does not support the transfer of money in any form. This includes Wallet credits, PayPal, gift cards or any other type of currency.

studyak47 Apr 23, 2015 @ 11:49pm

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:
Originally posted by DWonderchild:
Where in the rules does it state I can't trade for wallet funds? And the reason I was banned is for "fraud within the Steam Marketplace".

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8912-WEYU-8454

Trades to Never Accept

Trades involving money:
The Steam trading interface does not support the transfer of money in any form. This includes Wallet credits, PayPal, gift cards or any other type of currency.

They don't mention any sort of punishment, It's merely there for our safety.

C²C^Guyver |NZB| Apr 24, 2015 @ 12:10am

Originally posted by DWonderchild:
Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8912-WEYU-8454

Trades to Never Accept

Trades involving money:
The Steam trading interface does not support the transfer of money in any form. This includes Wallet credits, PayPal, gift cards or any other type of currency.

They don't mention any sort of punishment, It's merely there for our safety.

People have been punished for it.

studyak47 Apr 24, 2015 @ 12:23am

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:
Originally posted by DWonderchild:

They don't mention any sort of punishment, It's merely there for our safety.

People have been punished for it.

A permanent ban? A little too harsh don't you think?

More importantly, they specifically said it was for marketplace fraud, and I don't think selling items for wallet funds is considered fraud.

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