Inventory LOCK options.

[TheAwesomeBastard]

My account was hacked.... I lost a lot of in game items, that I earned from playing games on steam. TF2, KF2, CSGO, etc.
I got my account back, but steam policy is basically finders keepers, and go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.
The hacker also spent my store credit on the market, and also would not replace or reverse those charges. Anyway I wasnt planning on selling or trading my items.

My idea is put locks on inventory items I do not plan to sell or trade. I choose an item to lock up, and give it a time limit.Once I choose to unlock. If I do choose to sell, I can unlock them, and input a pw and then a timer will countdown to the time I locked it at. It took 7 days for support to reply and get my account back from the hacker, so I dont care if I can put the timer to 30 + days. Once the timer is up, you can set up trades with the item again.

To better explain the idea. Go to inventory. Highlight item. Most items give the option to sell. I want an option to lock beside it. Choose lock, a pop up comes up once lock item will not be able to be sold or tradeable until X days later. This way if someone hacks my account, They have to wait for the unlock timer to be able to trade them. This is only for gamers that do not want to sell or trade, but having an inventory makes you a target.

[Brujeira]

Uh, no. You need a sense of cynicism. Which widely admired trading sites did you use?

They’re all scam sites.

No exceptions. You got phished through one of them. Stop using them.

[Zekiran]

Nope.

Common sense is the best defense against users like yourself losing their stuff. next time, don't give out your security and login info.

[Forest Team Pera]

Report to steam and make evidences such as proof of purchase, etc.

[TheAwesomeBastard]

wow so far a lot of assumptions and nags.

[Aachen]

So the hijacker instead just has to silently wait out the lock?

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

My account was hacked.... I lost a lot of in game items, that I earned from playing games on steam. TF2, KF2, CSGO, etc.
I got my account back, but steam policy is basically finders keepers, and go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.
The hacker also spent my store credit on the market, and also would not replace or reverse those charges. Anyway I wasnt planning on selling or trading my items.

My idea is put locks on inventory items I do not plan to sell or trade. I choose an item to lock up, and give it a time limit.Once I choose to unlock. If I do choose to sell, I can unlock them, and input a pw and then a timer will countdown to the time I locked it at. It took 7 days for support to reply and get my account back from the hacker, so I dont care if I can put the timer to 30 + days. Once the timer is up, you can set up trades with the item again.

TLDR: steam policy is garbage, and we need more proctection.

Your account wasn't hacked, you logged into a phishing site and gave away your info....

[TheAwesomeBastard]

Originally posted by brian9824:

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

My account was hacked.... I lost a lot of in game items, that I earned from playing games on steam. TF2, KF2, CSGO, etc.
I got my account back, but steam policy is basically finders keepers, and go ♥♥♥♥ yourself.
The hacker also spent my store credit on the market, and also would not replace or reverse those charges. Anyway I wasnt planning on selling or trading my items.

My idea is put locks on inventory items I do not plan to sell or trade. I choose an item to lock up, and give it a time limit.Once I choose to unlock. If I do choose to sell, I can unlock them, and input a pw and then a timer will countdown to the time I locked it at. It took 7 days for support to reply and get my account back from the hacker, so I dont care if I can put the timer to 30 + days. Once the timer is up, you can set up trades with the item again.

TLDR: steam policy is garbage, and we need more proctection.

Your account wasn't hacked, you logged into a phishing site and gave away your info....

yes I know. I got scammed into thinking of joining a tournament.
thats not the point of the topic. I want a security feature to protect my inventory in case it happens again, since the 2 step on my phone did nothing.
and when someone takes someone else's account is still a hack.
if not hack then thief.

[Aachen]

Basic rule of the internet: never provide log in credentials for one service to another. You’d never heard that before getting phished?

[TheAwesomeBastard]

Originally posted by Aachen:

Basic rule of the internet: never provide log in credentials for one service to another. You’d never heard that before getting phished?

any comment on the lock idea?
im not asking what youre talking about.

[Aachen]

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

any comment on the lock idea?
im not asking what youre talking about.

And yet I still talk about it. Clearly you’d have been well-served to hear it sooner. Sorry if that discomfits you. Anyway:

Originally posted by Aachen:

So the hijacker instead just has to silently wait out the lock?

[TheAwesomeBastard]

Originally posted by Aachen:

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

any comment on the lock idea?
im not asking what youre talking about.

And yet I still talk about it. Clearly you’d have been well-served to hear it sooner. Sorry if that discomfits you. Anyway:

Originally posted by Aachen:

So the hijacker instead just has to silently wait out the lock?

I have 2 step verification on my phone, even with it, hackers were able to change my pw without the phone providing the 2nd verify to notify me that im being hacked or my pw is changed. I open steam, it request pw, instead of just signing in. pw doesnt work. contact support. week later get account back. stuff gone. time stamp, items traded as soon as they get access into the account.

steam support already gave me the blah blah about the security that i already had turned on when I got hacked. it wasnt good enough. I am not asking about this part, since I know this part.

As for the lock idea, I want an option to lock my items just like the option to sell them. When I choose lock. I get a timer for when I want to unlock them. Just like when I go to the bank, and if I get big bills, I need to wait for a timer for them to unlock the safe. Banks do this.

If I want to unlock, I need to input a password, then wait the timer to countdown for the time frame I input when I locked the item.

Its extra protection in case an account gets taken over, and instead of hackers instantly trading all the items, if I have 30 day countdown to trade , and takes steam 7 days to get my account back, then when I do get my account back, i also keep my items.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

wow so far a lot of assumptions and nags.

Assumptions based on the very, very easily seen reality of this forum, dude.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

I have 2 step verification on my phone, even with it, hackers were able to change my pw without the phone providing the 2nd verify to notify me that im being hacked or my pw is changed. I open steam, it request pw, instead of just signing in. pw doesnt work. contact support. week later get account back. stuff gone. time stamp, items traded as soon as they get access into the account.

.

Again:

NO hackers got on your account.

YOU gave away your login and security information and you FREELY ADMIT that you did this earlier.

yes I know. I got scammed into thinking of joining a tournament.

*STOP* trying to dodge the responsibility of having GIVEN OUT your information. That's why your account was stolen.

No 'lock' would help. The tools have all been given to you. The USER is at fault for being greedy, a sucker, threatened easily, or gullible. Yes, scammers are bad. But users are the only way to make security WORK. And by ignoring basic internet safety, the user is 100% at fault for allowing their account to fall into the wrong hands, particularly when Steam already offers all the security they could POSSIBLY give.

[TheAwesomeBastard]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

I have 2 step verification on my phone, even with it, hackers were able to change my pw without the phone providing the 2nd verify to notify me that im being hacked or my pw is changed. I open steam, it request pw, instead of just signing in. pw doesnt work. contact support. week later get account back. stuff gone. time stamp, items traded as soon as they get access into the account.

.

Again:

NO hackers got on your account.

YOU gave away your login and security information and you FREELY ADMIT that you did this earlier.

yes I know. I got scammed into thinking of joining a tournament.

*STOP* trying to dodge the responsibility of having GIVEN OUT your information. That's why your account was stolen.

No 'lock' would help. The tools have all been given to you. The USER is at fault for being greedy, a sucker, threatened easily, or gullible. Yes, scammers are bad. But users are the only way to make security WORK. And by ignoring basic internet safety, the user is 100% at fault for allowing their account to fall into the wrong hands, particularly when Steam already offers all the security they could POSSIBLY give.

gave away? I did not freely give away.
I am not here for a vocabulary war to finally stop you from saying what what already said, and not having a comment on the lock idea.

any comment on the lock idea? More locks like this will prevent scammers from stealing.
scammer takes over account, but cant take any items since needs to wait 30 days before he can trade or sell, and by that time, the proper account holder should get their account back.

[Zekiran]

You literally did.

You did not observe basic internet safety. You gave away your information on a scam site. That is the problem here. No matter how many ways you were warned over time and on this specific site, you yourself are the only person and only security flaw to be blamed. No amount of FURTHER security could prevent people from doing the same thing. It is not going to help, because nothing already does.