Blocked From Steam VPN will only work ISP has not blocked.

[Blinky]

So as the story goes I still am unable to access the steam store [e-mail] did no help they tell me to goto help.steampowered.com

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Fraud report against Steam?

What did Steam support say?

[Mad Scientist]

Don't file fraud reports for something that's not fraud. You're leaving out information for sure about the true nature of the issue.

First you say you're blocked from the steam store, then you say it's the community forums.

There are some things that could affect your ability to reach a site, if it requires a VPN to get here that should be a huge giveaway as to the issue existing on your end.

Are you running a firewall or does someone have control of it over you?
Have you attempted any troubleshooting? If so what? Does this happen with multiple browsers? Does this happen on another machine or smart phone in your network?

Details help resolve things or find ways to resolve them.

[Blinky]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Fraud report against Steam?

What did Steam support say?

:qr:

Nothing you cant even message in twitter to them whats the point of them being in social media.

Thank you for contacting Valve. This email address is no longer monitored.



If you need customer service or technical support for Valve games or Steam, please go to the Valve Support Site at http://help.steampowered.com and submit a support incident.

-VALVe


Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://help.steampowered.com/en/" on this server.
Reference #18.c603c17.1607878997.2c51d165

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Try...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1700541698700420533/?tscn=1558106421#c1700541698703218835

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Try...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/1700541698700420533/?tscn=1558106421#c1700541698703218835

:qr:

Was waiting for you to show up and give that solution, lol.

Try that, op. Im willing to bet it'll work.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Blinky SNEP:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://help.steampowered.com/en/" on this server.
Reference #18.c603c17.1607878997.2c51d165

I mean, you could have made a quick google query for that in the time you've filed a "fraud" report.
Why jump to such inane conclusions as to "Valve blocked me"?

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Maybe his country is blocking steam. Just a thought.

[Blinky]

I love how the comments point to me being some dumb ass I looked at those tutorials they didnt work ISP isnt blocking it and they even pointed at steam so before you attack someone for asking for help ill be going else were. Thanks for the copy paste that did nothing btw plus u cant post screenshots in a community forum how retarded is that I cant even show you whats going on.

[Brimzel]

Originally posted by Blinky SNEP:

u cant post screenshots in a community forum

Host it in a third-party website like imgur.com, then post the link here.

[Blinky]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Blinky SNEP:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://help.steampowered.com/en/" on this server.
Reference #18.c603c17.1607878997.2c51d165

I mean, you could have made a quick google query for that in the time you've filed a "fraud" report.
Why jump to such inane conclusions as to "Valve blocked me"?

I didnt jump to any conclusions I cant get to steam help because the whole domain is blocked my ISP even stated that everything else works on my network STEAM is the only thing that is broken so kind of obvious flushing DNS didn't do anything going on a VPN allows me to login with errors as well. So it is an IP block. the google redit post did nothing there isnt even a resolution 16 hrs later still getting permission denied if it was my ISP it would have been an issue 6 months ago so thanks for the non help and harrasment bud.

[Blinky]

Originally posted by Orion:

Don't file fraud reports for something that's not fraud. You're leaving out information for sure about the true nature of the issue.

First you say you're blocked from the steam store, then you say it's the community forums.

There are some things that could affect your ability to reach a site, if it requires a VPN to get here that should be a huge giveaway as to the issue existing on your end.

Are you running a firewall or does someone have control of it over you?
Have you attempted any troubleshooting? If so what? Does this happen with multiple browsers? Does this happen on another machine or smart phone in your network?

Details help resolve things or find ways to resolve them.

It also happens on a mobile network so yeah ive done troubleshooting why im coming here nice help thanks for the condescending comments you assume I am dumb

[Blinky]

Originally posted by davidb11:

It's literally impossible for Steam to block you like this.
Literally 100% impossible.

That's not even how blocking someone would work.
Your ISP is lying it's ass off.

Or someone somewhere has really dropped the ball big-time.
But to conclude that somehow Steam is doing is is beyond absurd.

THere is simply no logic to it at all.
Also, the fact that it works via a VPN means it is 100% your ISP.
That's literally how it works.

You being angry doesn't change how things work.
Steam would never block you directly because of how impossible that is right now to even do.
Maybe your government is blocking it.

I appreciate your post but why would they say this it was working for 4 months. Just because there is a reddit post understand the error read how it sounds if it was my ISP i wouldnt be browsing anywhere plus they even showed me their IP tables. The fact I cant get support is another issue sent an email to their support they tell me to goto the page that is blocked.


--> Chrome Error pointing to the server @ fault Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)

help.steampowered.com/:1

[Blinky]

Originally posted by davidb11:

It's literally impossible for Steam to block you like this.
Literally 100% impossible.

That's not even how blocking someone would work.
Your ISP is lying it's ass off.

Or someone somewhere has really dropped the ball big-time.
But to conclude that somehow Steam is doing is is beyond absurd.

THere is simply no logic to it at all.
Also, the fact that it works via a VPN means it is 100% your ISP.
That's literally how it works.

You being angry doesn't change how things work.
Steam would never block you directly because of how impossible that is right now to even do.
Maybe your government is blocking it.

Government block for Canada look at the posts one person had it fixed via ISP is there a solution no didnt say what they did what ports ect ect. I know networking and this is a Steam issue flushing dns didnt work even went to a friends account on a totally different network same issue. He is even having the issue so this issue is unresolved telling me to google and the comments above

cinedine 3 hours ago
Originally posted by Blinky SNEP:
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://help.steampowered.com/en/" on this server.
Reference #18.c603c17.1607878997.2c51d165

I mean, you could have made a quick google query for that in the time you've filed a "fraud" report.
Why jump to such inane conclusions as to "Valve blocked me"?

Serisouly inane conclusions really?? I have 20 years in IT I came here to get help and told to google stuff I come to forums after I have exhausted everything so what next any solution you probably dont have one now right? So cant contact Steam to deal with it because all the options give no support options they blame your ISP in every solution which Ive done and non worked. So thanks and wont be asking for help here again sorry for asking for help if I UPSET and feel like im some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moron

[Washell]

Check your IP address here:

https://www.akamai.com/us/en/clientrep-lookup/

Article explaining it all.
https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/article/Why-is-Akamai-blocking-me?language=en_US

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Blinky SNEP:

Serisouly inane conclusions really?? I have 20 years in IT I came here to get help and told to google stuff I come to forums after I have exhausted everything so what next any solution you probably dont have one now right? So cant contact Steam to deal with it because all the options give no support options they blame your ISP in every solution which Ive done and non worked. So thanks and wont be asking for help here again sorry for asking for help if I UPSET and feel like im some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moron

DID you google it?
Then you would have seen that it's usually a client side problem.
Flush your DNS cache, your browser cahce, and delete your cookies. That will solve it 99 % of times. The other 1 % will solve itself within 24 hours, usually when caching expires in case it's ISP side.

A 403 also doesn't point to the server but to something on your site. These codes are generated by the applications and are determined by whoever wrote it. A 403 can be anything from trying to access non-public directories, having wrong login information or an invalid session token. Hell, it might even be a badly assigned internal error.

You think it's an IP block? So why does a VPN still produce errors? Unless Steam for some reason blocked the entirety of Canada.