FAKE BAN OR SCAM ? IMPORTANT

[ooj39400♥^*E*]

Hello guys, JUST 2 MIN AGO i got a message from Support Manager in my friend list (wtf) and he send me this :

[19:02]Suρρort Manager: This is an automatic message: Good day! Steam user iexpander. Your account has been suspended because we have detected several viruses and legitimate software that damage the steam server on your account. Purchases, gifts, trading, CD activation and access to the steam community will be disabled after 2 http://hours.We suggest you to move all of your tradable items to a different steam account until we solve this issue or they are going to be automatically permamently removed once the ban appears on your steam account.You got reported by many players and we have to limit your account, we decided it in a period of 2 months, we analyzed all your activity and reports. Once the ban is implemented, we will send overview of the report on your email [e-mail] the software detects a cheat on a player's system, it will ban them in the future, possibly days or weeks after the original detection. It may kick players from the game if it detects errors in their system's memory or hardware. No information such as date of detection or type of cheat detected is disclosed to the player. After the player is notified about the acces to online "V.A.C protected" servers of the game the player who cheated is permamently revoked and additional restrictions are applied to the player's Steam account .The decision is permament and it can't be http://undone.If I'm V.A.C banned what does it mean for my account?Account will be useless. You can not play on any valve secured server, can't trade any items once the ban is implemented.Note: Users are not V.A.C banned based on alone reports. Other factors are take into account before V.A.C bans are issued.All messages are read and reviewed by the V.A.C development http://team.If you have any questions, type in this chat, our support manager will answered as soon is possible. On your account was sent a lot of complaints because of this we have to check your account if the account has not violated anything it will not be http://banned.If you do not want to lose your skins we give you time to send skins to another account or friend. Hello, you have received 32 complaints from Steam users and at the moment, after 2 hours your account will be on the check all skins on the account that will be during the check will be removed, so hurry up, if you want to save your skins send them to another account or a friend you trust, if your account did not violate anything then after checking by the administrator, you will not be banned.


Then my profil changed with this Picture and in my biography : Your account will be permanently blocked
Trading, inviting, commenting and otherwise interacting with the Steam Community have been disabled.
Ban Reason: You have received too many reports. INFO



But like My VAC is clean, i'm not a cheater at all but like wtf ? someone can help me stressing me out so much LOL

[B-o-B]

While your at it.

Common Scams
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/wiki/scamtypes
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/wiki/scamtypes#wiki_a_valve_employee_or_steam_moderator_will_never_add_you_as_a_friend_to_talk_to_you_about_anything_pertaining_to_your_account_or_items.

Learn how to log into Steam Community Before any 3rd party sites, legit ones.
Account Security
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1266-OAFV-8478&l=

[wuddih]

hsmod *QLF님이 먼저 게시:

i ain't going on website that aren't securized 1st rule

and what do you look for? the lock in the address bar?

that doesn't tell you if that is a phishing site or if it is secure for you to use, that just tells you the connection to the site is encrypted with a certificate. if you do not check and verify the certificate owner that is required for this lock to appear, this lock means nothing.
there are also phishing websites that open a fake window with a fake address bar and fake steam login.

you got at least phished. be happy when you didn't also install malware.

[BossGalaga]

A Communist Cat님이 먼저 게시:

Matt님이 먼저 게시:

You need to stop playing Counter Strike and secure your account. Get your priorities in order.

What's Counter Strike got to do with this?

What's Counter Strike got to do, got to do, got do with it? What's Counter Strike but a second hand F-PEEE-S?

But yeah...scam.

hsmod *QLF님이 먼저 게시:

Impossible, i ain't going on website that aren't securized 1st rule...

Very possible.

Stop clicking on things and responding to random friend requests from people with FAAAABULOUS deals.

[ooj39400♥^*E*]

I think that no one get it right now

I DIDNT ACCEPTED ANY OF THE FRIEND REQUESTS 1st.
I WASN'T PLAYING CS:GO when that happened 2nd.
I Wasn't on any site that is linked to STEAM 3rd.
I Was on league of legends when everything happened 4.
I did just LOOK at the profile but NOT RESPONDED 5.

[Muppet among Puppets]

NIQUEZ VOS MERES !님이 먼저 게시:

I think that no one get it right now

I DIDNT ACCEPTED ANY OF THE FRIEND REQUESTS 1st.
I WASN'T PLAYING CS:GO when that happened 2nd.
I Wasn't on any site that is linked to STEAM 3rd.
I Was on league of legends when everything happened 4.
I did just LOOK at the profile but NOT RESPONDED 5.

The scammers did get it "right". Your details.

Now you need to get it and fix it as mentioned.

hsmod *QLF님이 먼저 게시:

Good day! Steam user iexpander. Your account has been suspended

Scam messages are always an "opportunity". What a wonderfull day here is our offer..... Even if its about a ban.......


You need to understand it. Your details leaked. Of course you did not see the trap, as you stepped in it.

[死神]

I hope I can shorten the 15-day trading limit for tokens. One or two days is enough. If it is too long, it will be very uncomfortable. 15 days, how many 15 days are there in your life? If you accidentally delete the steam, you need to reuse the steam token instead. There is still a 15-day trading limit, which is really unbearable.

[J4MESOX4D]

sssssssssssss /M/ *QLF님이 먼저 게시:

I think that no one get it right now

I DIDNT ACCEPTED ANY OF THE FRIEND REQUESTS 1st.
I WASN'T PLAYING CS:GO when that happened 2nd.
I Wasn't on any site that is linked to STEAM 3rd.
I Was on league of legends when everything happened 4.
I did just LOOK at the profile but NOT RESPONDED 5.

So the hijackers managed to guess your account name, password and authenticator code then? Get real.

Either you gave these credentials away to a scam site or you used a contaminated device which captured them. Try and use your brain and think about it logically for a second and bear in mind this is the most common scam right now and you're the first person I've seen not to take any responsibility or offer acknowledgement.

[StickyPawz]

BossGalaga님이 먼저 게시:

What's Counter Strike got to do, got to do, got do with it? What's Counter Strike but a second hand F-PEEE-S?

*starts nodding head to the beat*

Dang it! … Now I've got a Tina Turner earworm!

[grody_antagonic]

sssssssssssss /M/ *QLF님이 먼저 게시:

I think that no one get it right now

I DIDNT ACCEPTED ANY OF THE FRIEND REQUESTS 1st.
I WASN'T PLAYING CS:GO when that happened 2nd.
I Wasn't on any site that is linked to STEAM 3rd.
I Was on league of legends when everything happened 4.
I did just LOOK at the profile but NOT RESPONDED 5.

I believe there was a case where code could be run through Guides and if the guide was shown on the profile, the code could potentially be executed upon just visiting the profile. That should be long fixed by now, however, just wanted to get the people here to at least consider the possibility that what OP says is true and not his fault... just consider it for a moment, even if it might sound dumb.
Probably a good thing to do would be showing that profile to steam support or staff with the explanation what you did. Don't link it here in case it's actually somehow compromised with malicous code...

[LemonChii]

@weirdman Sounds like cross site scripting.. Apparently the Steam platform has suffered several of those in recent years.

[Zekiran]

TropicalChibi님이 먼저 게시:

@weirdman Sounds like cross site scripting.. Apparently the Steam platform has suffered several of those in recent years.

I'd love proof of this, please.

In approximately 99.9999% of these 'omg my account' issues, USER ERROR and USER CHOICES are to blame.

The extreme vast majority of all phished accounts and account compromises are because the user clicked when they shouldn't have. The extraordinarily rare cases of an actual HACK having been done, again: that's not what's happening here or across steam except in remarkably specific or very short moments before they're taken care of.

Individual accounts aren't hacked.

Individual accounts are phished.

Steam hasn't been 'hacked' - sending malicious links isn't hacking. It's phishing.

[grody_antagonic]

Zekiran님이 먼저 게시:

I'd love proof of this, please.

I searched the case for you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/5srlwd/the_steam_community_exploit_explained_indepth_by/
It happened in 2017. It sounded similar to what OP now descriped, that's why I brought it up.

[Zekiran]

Again: redirects aren't a hack.

The OP's issue is extremely common for the last 4-6 months with that specific kind of 'scare tactic'. It's got nothing to do with anything else. User error.

[LemonChii]

@Zekiran
Sure:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&q=steam+xss&oq=steam+xss&aqs=heirloom-srp..0l2

I agree with you about most account compromises being simple phishing; I was replying to the commant above me, not the OP.

[Zekiran]

If the profile got changed, I guarantee you their account IS compromised.

It's like being pregnant.

You either are, or are not. There's no inbetween with this.