what's up with these fake "verified" or "premium valve accounts"?

[Aptivon]

hey,
so recently i've seen more and more people put something like
"🆅🅰🅻🆅🅴 - Premium Account"
or
"🆅🅰🅻🆅🅴 Verified ✅"
in their summary. obviously this is fake and means nothing. especially since they have to trick out the filter with "🆅🅰🅻🆅🅴".

the thing is i have seen a lot of people doing this recently compared to noone just a few weeks ago. is this some kind of meme i missed or what?

[Wolf Knight]

report the account thru its profile and move on. Valve tends to act very quickly when it comes to someone trying to impersonate a Valve/Steam employee.

[Darven]

Nope, it's not a meme, they are people pretending to be valve employeers/steam admins to try to scam people. Yes, there are a lot of innocent people who trust in anybody.

Just to clarify: there's no Steam admins, and Valve employeers will never ask for your items or anything of yours.

What you should do? Report them.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Originally posted by LittleDarven:

Nope, it's not a meme, they are people pretending to be valve employeers/steam admins to try to scam people. Yes, there are a lot of innocent people who trust in anybody.

Just to clarify: there's no Steam admins, and Valve employeers will never ask for your items or anything of yours.

What you should do? Report them.

This. I liked how one such person stated that they were the founder of Valve, yet they weren't claiming to be Lord Gabe

[Black Blade]

Originally posted by sonic65101:

This. I liked how one such person stated that they were the founder of Valve, yet they weren't claiming to be Lord Gabe

Well there where 2 funders from what i understand

[dirrtymartini]

Originally posted by ⓗⓞⓜⓔⓡ ◔ ‿ ◔:

hey,
so recently i've seen more and more people put something like
"🆅🅰🅻🆅🅴 - Premium Account"
or
"🆅🅰🅻🆅🅴 Verified ✅"
in their summary. obviously this is fake and means nothing. especially since they have to trick out the filter with "🆅🅰🅻🆅🅴".

the thing is i have seen a lot of people doing this recently compared to noone just a few weeks ago. is this some kind of meme i missed or what?

It never fails to amaze me the lengths these scumbags will go to try and scam people.

[Forcen]

How have you discovered them? Do they contact you?
You are in a whole lot of groups, that makes you easier to find.

[🜂∴🜏 Cassie]

One such scammer once added me, though he was impersonating a moderator instead of a Valve employee, who most of us probably don't even recognize their names.

The moment I saw his copied profile and lack of moderator badge, I went to a different moderator to report that guy (the impersonated mod didn't have comments set to public). Bam, community ban in less than 10 minutes. I love it.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Most try to act like Valve employees or even global mods on Steam to scam you, some go evena bit farther and make up a completly new person that has never worked with/at Valve or been a mod, those I always talk to just to see what they come up with.

Originally posted by Forcen:

How have you discovered them? Do they contact you?
You are in a whole lot of groups, that makes you easier to find.

Most if not all look through group friends list in order to find people then open inventories (if public) and then if you have good items to steal form you, most are trading, cs:go, russian groups.