I think the Admin Alden Kroll is a scammer

[Michrollo Jackson]

my friend got his account hacked and the hacker pretending to be my friend messaged me saying "i accidentally reported your account could u please talk to the admin so he wont ban you otherwise you will be permanently banned" I knew it was fake but decided to talk to the "Admin" named Alden Kroll on discord anyway. He says i have to screenshot my wallet history to prove I didn't do it but I said no and he sent me some gifs of him clicking "Delete Account" then said feel free to create a new account and blocked me. I thought he might be inpersonating an admin but he screenshoted his account and he had the option to EDIT ACCOUNT so i think Alden Kroll is a scammer maybe

[tinycat]

One of the oldest scams in the book.

It should already be common sense to you people that Steam mods do not contact you directly via the steam community. There is a special notification that you get only when a moderator contacts you.

No moderator will ever want to address any matters regarding your account through friend requests and Steam chat. They will either use moderator messages, OR contact you through email.

Plus, that tactic to block you, is to create pressure. You should never give in.

[Mailer]

Common scam procedure. Block both participants on their respective platforms and report them.

As soon as someone mentions contacting an "admin" on this platform you shouldn't entertain your thoughts for a second.
As soon as someone mentions "accidentally reporting you" then you shouldn't entertain your thoughts for a second.
As soon as someone mentions contacting an "admin" on "Discord" of all places then you shouldn't entertain your thoughts for a second.

No amount of fabricated .gif nonsense should convince you that the person behind that instance of the name is an admin whatsoever, but good going coming to the realisation that they might be a scammer.

[tinycat]

Mailer の投稿を引用：

As soon as someone mentions "accidentally reporting you" then you shouldn't entertain your thoughts for a second.

And there's also the fact that penalties aren't carried out based on reports alone.
So this shouldn't be of any concern to begin with if you already know you did nothing wrong.

This is written somewhere in one of Steam's help pages.

[wuddih]

why should someone who designed the system, require you to make screenshots for him of stuff he has direct access to?

even if you do not fall for other parts of this scam, the point of this is part is to get private account information of yours to overtake your account with Steam supports help, which is completely possible to happen.

any data you gave out that was considered private will be used against you in future scams and account overtakes.
you better have transaction proof of the earliest purchases you did on Steam.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

To add to what other people have said: "Alden Kroll" is apparently the name of an actual Steam employee...but names can be duplicated and faked by anyone, so just because the name matches doesn't mean the person is an actual admin.

...that's interesting, the past tense of "fake" is apparently censored lol

[ShelLuser]

If someone reports you by accident then that's their problem, not yours. Simple reasoning really: Steam support can access everything which goes through their systems, including chat logs. So the moment he confessed means you're off the hook (if there ever was one).

[KillahInstinct]

Quint the Alligator Snapper の投稿を引用：

faked

Looking into this..

[Muppet among Puppets]

GrandpaMuhammad の投稿を引用：

I think the Admin Alden Kroll is a scammer ....... a friend got his account hacked and the hacker pretending to be my friend

A thief pretending to be a third person pretending to be a friend.
If you transfer this into something optical, it looks like two mirrors placed in front of each other.
You can see things, but what you see is not real anymore.

[Muppet among Puppets]

WhiteKnight の投稿を引用：

This is Alden Kroll steam account :-


and his twitter -

The scammers show the same, but then use another plattform to continue with the name. Or a fake profile.

You simply dont follow a story preesented randomly in chats or emails etc