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[CAUTION] NEW ACCOUNT HACK GOING AROUND
Hi,

I thought it would be best if i posted this where as many people as possible could see it. I have already contacted steam support about this matter.

There is a new way hackers are currently stealing peoples steam accounts. Currently, the way I got affected was through a friend who sent me a message asking for me to vote for his friends team on some sort of pro league tournament website. Being a nice person, a replied saying yes and he sent me a link to a website, that being elm-games (I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND VISITING IT).

To vote, the website asks you to login with steam, to which it comes up with the login page that you would except from steam, however in reality it in not actually the steam website and instead a fraud. This is a very carefully disguised phishing site and it caught me completely offguard. After inputting your steam login details to login, it immediately attempts to login using your details, in my case, it spammed me with emails and texts asking me to input a code to remove my mobile authenticator. Realizing this was extremely dodgy, i immediately closed the website and reset my password.

I AM WARNING EVERYONE! PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THIS HACK! MY FRIEND WHO SENT ME THE LINK ORIGINALLY HAS ALREADY HAD HIS ACCOUNT STOLEN! PLEASE BEWARE!
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Muppet among Puppets の投稿を引用:
If you draw back money from steam,
you take money from them.

They were not part of the scam.

Ah okay, the money never went to steam. It was all trough paysafe giftcards that he 100% redemeed on his own account.
最近の変更はR A Z E Rが行いました; 2021年6月24日 21時26分
R A Z E R の投稿を引用:
Muppet among Puppets の投稿を引用:
If you draw back money from steam,
you take money from them.

They were not part of the scam.

Ah okay, the money never went to steam. It was all trough paysafe giftcards that he 100% redemeed on his own account.
Then you be fine, it's only a problem if you try to chargeback from Steam via your Steam account, otherwise you're fine.
Dr.Shadowds 🐉 の投稿を引用:
R A Z E R の投稿を引用:

Ah okay, the money never went to steam. It was all trough paysafe giftcards that he 100% redemeed on his own account.
Then you be fine, it's only a problem if you try to chargeback from Steam via your Steam account, otherwise you're fine.

Hopefully my bank can do something for me, i'm going to bed now since i'm exhausted.. I've been up and dealing with all of this for 5 hours straight.

One thing i did find funny is that the scammer on discord blocked me/ended the chat when i showed his exact location (Some guy on Reddit found out where he lives).
最近の変更はR A Z E Rが行いました; 2021年6月24日 21時43分
Yes yes, what i encounter.... i bought an account as my new 2nd account. I remove every information from the previous owner smehow it got stolen from a different user. Not sure if the hijacker is the same person or different thats all i know how it is
Buying and selling Steam accounts is a severe violation of the Steam Subscriber Agreement.
Valve can simply terminate all accounts of all parties involved for that.
RMA の投稿を引用:
Yes yes, what i encounter.... i bought an account as my new 2nd account. I remove every information from the previous owner smehow it got stolen from a different user. Not sure if the hijacker is the same person or different thats all i know how it is
Yea... See this is your mistake right here. Steam accounts are free to make... Also in the Terms of service accounts are not meant for resell, renting out, giving away, or sharing, as they're only for person that created the account no one else, breaking this terms could result the account being locked, or even terminated. No this is a common TOS most services have this TOS as well such as GoG, Blizzard, origin, and more.

Also there always high chance with people buying accounts from others as there always scammers that can recover the account later since they're the creator of the account which would have first email used on it, the first key used, first payment, and more to providing proof of ownership to recovering. They scam you out of your money, wait couple months until you're outside your chargeback policy for your credit card company, then they issue an account recovery, then try resell the account again to another victim to repeat. Also this give scammers access to your friend list you had them added to try push a phishing scam on your friends to steal their account, and more.

There a high chance the owner recover the account from you, or that you got phished visiting site claiming to be whatever, or assume was a safe site to use that was a fake site to hijack your account.

I suggest learn from your mistakes so you don't repeat them, support will be asking for proof of ownership which why they do that such as original key used, payment method, or etc... And if support believe the account in violation of breaking ToS they can lock the account, or even terminate it.
do not forget there is also scamer on discord , i post the name so they cant use the same acc twice :steamhappy:

Three English Letters شازام の投稿を引用:
This is not new...

Report, block, and move on.
:itsboshytime:

this is the best comment you ever see , i also got one from my post :steamhappy:
1EF 2021年12月26日 0時24分 
bazza の投稿を引用:
Hi,

I thought it would be best if i posted this where as many people as possible could see it. I have already contacted steam support about this matter.

There is a new way hackers are currently stealing peoples steam accounts. Currently, the way I got affected was through a friend who sent me a message asking for me to vote for his friends team on some sort of pro league tournament website. Being a nice person, a replied saying yes and he sent me a link to a website, that being elm-games (I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND VISITING IT).

To vote, the website asks you to login with steam, to which it comes up with the login page that you would except from steam, however in reality it in not actually the steam website and instead a fraud. This is a very carefully disguised phishing site and it caught me completely offguard. After inputting your steam login details to login, it immediately attempts to login using your details, in my case, it spammed me with emails and texts asking me to input a code to remove my mobile authenticator. Realizing this was extremely dodgy, i immediately closed the website and reset my password.

I AM WARNING EVERYONE! PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THIS HACK! MY FRIEND WHO SENT ME THE LINK ORIGINALLY HAS ALREADY HAD HIS ACCOUNT STOLEN! PLEASE BEWARE!
yeah I just lost 2500€ in skins and now I'm reading this lmao
1EF の投稿を引用:
yeah I just lost 2500€ in skins and now I'm reading this lmao
I suggest read post #4 to help protect yourself in the future.
Just simply avoid any fake cago websites or steam websites aren’t real. Report to valve or simply troll, ignore it anyway.

For My thoughts? I assume some accounts we’re hijacked by some scams or something and sold to using cheats in-game for their cheaters. Maybe some cheaters are satisfied when they using hijacked accounts as cheating use.

Or

Some steam scammers are greedy that needs more skins, more games, more items what they got. Some people scammed over items as a giveaway or an free offer and you recieve a worthless item such as dota 2 or some game. They wanted to be rich and wealthy ingame or some scammers wanted cheats for fun.

Last around a year ago, successfully evade the scams by locking account for safety until next sunday

It’s your responsible for your account in steam for the hack, scams and something else.


TS;Rdble
I hate scammers and i hate cheaters that ruined our gaming :steamsad:
最近の変更はFrancis • LULが行いました; 2021年12月29日 23時03分
1EF 2021年12月26日 2時34分 
That link came from my friend, I know him irl for 5 years so I was like why would I not vote to help him, the message was in Slovak so I thought that he wrote it. I didn't notice that it was fake steam login url, so I gave them my login information.
In 15 minutes my account changed (name, profile picture and description) and one person from my friend list wrote me out of nowhere like what happened with my account and that it tells him that my account violated steam's TOS. I was in big stress so I didn't notice that it was very very sus how he wrote it. He said that I should "move my inventory on my smurf or send my items to my friends" and I thought that he just cares, so I did trade offer to my smurf account and I didn't think about it, since he said that I have only 1 hour for it and that it happened to his friend too. After I made trade offer (I set it on my smurf acc) I accepted it by steam guard and that's all he needed.
Basically what he did: put api on my account, chose one person from my friend list, sent him the same message my friend sent me, blocked him, changed his account to appear like that friend and then changed my profile pic and name so it looked like I violated steam TOS. Then he wrote me from fake account which appeared exactly like my friend - I didn't know that he added himself to my friend list and removed the real friend - and he was like I should hurry so I couldn't notice it.
After I sent my items to my smurf, the api changed receiver to his accounts (I sent 2 offers as a gift to my smurf, I approved both by steam guard and each was sent to another account). Then he ended communication with "at least you have your account with your games", which wasn't true if I didn't do something about it.
The friend I got the scam link from got community ban until 2023 and he can not log into his account anymore. I didn't know that the person I was texting with wasn't my friend, but completely different account, but I was like he was very sus. Later that day he changed his avatar and name (probably scamming someone else rn) and I just clicked on his account and I knew that it is not my friend.
I found my friend's account in block list (I didn't block him), together with the friend who sent me the link.

I just don't want to ever allow this happen again, so I'm writing my experience for people who would somehow jump on it.

If it happened to me now I know how to continue, I would never click on link from someone I don't know, but to this friend I trusted a lot and he usually sends me random links like this so I wanted to help him.

If this happened to someone important thing is remove scammers from your account. They are logged on your account so they can make your account get community banned, so work with them but at the time try to log them out.
1. they might have created api, disable it on https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey
2. change your password - go to settings and choose "Change Password Or Secret Question", then "I want to change my password"
3. deauthorize their devices - Account Details page > Manage Steam Guard and select "Deauthorize all other devices"

They can not get your skins without your approval, so think first, not like me. Hopefully this will save someone's skins, or account. If I didn't act fast I would have my account community banned rn, this helped me so hopefully it will help to someone else as well.
1EF の投稿を引用:
That link came from my friend, I know him irl for 5 years so I was like why would I not vote to help him, the message was in Slovak so I thought that he wrote it. I didn't notice that it was fake steam login url, so I gave them my login information.
In 15 minutes my account changed (name, profile picture and description) and one person from my friend list wrote me out of nowhere like what happened with my account and that it tells him that my account violated steam's TOS. I was in big stress so I didn't notice that it was very very sus how he wrote it. He said that I should "move my inventory on my smurf or send my items to my friends" and I thought that he just cares, so I did trade offer to my smurf account and I didn't think about it, since he said that I have only 1 hour for it and that it happened to his friend too. After I made trade offer (I set it on my smurf acc) I accepted it by steam guard and that's all he needed.
Basically what he did: put api on my account, chose one person from my friend list, sent him the same message my friend sent me, blocked him, changed his account to appear like that friend and then changed my profile pic and name so it looked like I violated steam TOS. Then he wrote me from fake account which appeared exactly like my friend - I didn't know that he added himself to my friend list and removed the real friend - and he was like I should hurry so I couldn't notice it.
After I sent my items to my smurf, the api changed receiver to his accounts (I sent 2 offers as a gift to my smurf, I approved both by steam guard and each was sent to another account). Then he ended communication with "at least you have your account with your games", which wasn't true if I didn't do something about it.
The friend I got the scam link from got community ban until 2023 and he can not log into his account anymore. I didn't know that the person I was texting with wasn't my friend, but completely different account, but I was like he was very sus. Later that day he changed his avatar and name (probably scamming someone else rn) and I just clicked on his account and I knew that it is not my friend.
I found my friend's account in block list (I didn't block him), together with the friend who sent me the link.

I just don't want to ever allow this happen again, so I'm writing my experience for people who would somehow jump on it.

If it happened to me now I know how to continue, I would never click on link from someone I don't know, but to this friend I trusted a lot and he usually sends me random links like this so I wanted to help him.

If this happened to someone important thing is remove scammers from your account. They are logged on your account so they can make your account get community banned, so work with them but at the time try to log them out.
1. they might have created api, disable it on https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey
2. change your password - go to settings and choose "Change Password Or Secret Question", then "I want to change my password"
3. deauthorize their devices - Account Details page > Manage Steam Guard and select "Deauthorize all other devices"

They can not get your skins without your approval, so think first, not like me. Hopefully this will save someone's skins, or account. If I didn't act fast I would have my account community banned rn, this helped me so hopefully it will help to someone else as well.

So what you're saying is PSA's are useless because you didn't notice the thousands of them that already exist.
Pscht 2021年12月26日 4時35分 
Welcome to the point in life cycle of every PSA thread where OP says all the others before were useless but THIS one will change everything forever, they swear.
1EF の投稿を引用:
That link came from my friend, I know him irl for 5 years so I was like why would I not vote to help him, the message was in Slovak so I thought that he wrote it. I didn't notice that it was fake steam login url, so I gave them my login information
Never give away your credentials to any random 3rd party site regardless of who sent it. Even if your longstanding friend sends something, that doesn't mean their account isn't compromised or they have been baited themselves. A site may use fake perks i.e a free item for sending the link to 10 friends or something.
So i said this many times. Stop writing your Steam login data into third-party websites. Only ever use your Steam login name and Steam login password on the real Steam website. Type the steam website yourself into your browser. Don't use links.
If any third-party website uses the Steam login it will never ask for your name or password. It will only present you your true account name and a green button to login. That is if you are already logged into the real Steam website.
No typing. Only clicking. Green button.

If the real Valve Steam website has you actively logged in, but the alleged third-party website asks for your login data, it is malicious.
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