Account Hacking Going Around.

[DrApex47]

Steam account hacking is going around, mainly on discord. People message you claiming your account is undergoing a suspension for a credit card fraud, illegal activity, etc posing as a Valve/Steam employee. Please do not trust them.

[ShelLuser]

That's as old as Steam itself I think. It's simple really.. Why would Steam contact you on Discord? The idea alone is utterly dumb.

[[UA]Віктор Молокан]

If your account was fraudulent in terms of means of payment, you would be blocked until the circumstances are clarified!

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Originally posted by DrApex47:

Steam account hacking is going around, mainly on discord. People message you claiming your account is undergoing a suspension for a credit card fraud, illegal activity, etc posing as a Valve/Steam employee. Please do not trust them.

Thats not hacking.... Its called phishing.....

[Razqqq]

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[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Originally posted by lksdfhj:

And what is when developers going on discord and piss off their feedbacks on steam?

How is this even related with the topic?

[Phoenix]

How is this even called "hacking"?

That's just scamming / phishing gullible people on discord.

[via]

This has been a problem for a while now. They may also say "I accidentally reported you and your account will be banned in X hours.

Just don't believe it. If you REALLY want to know if your at risk of your account getting banned, check for a confirmation email or something from Valve themselves.

[Devil`s Rejected]

I do not get it. If you play with people from Steam, why not simply create a chat room and activate voice chat there? I never had discord nor teamspeak.

[Jamaika]

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[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|:

Originally posted by DrApex47:

Steam account hacking is going around, mainly on discord. People message you claiming your account is undergoing a suspension for a credit card fraud, illegal activity, etc posing as a Valve/Steam employee. Please do not trust them.

Thats not hacking.... :cfacepalm: Its called phishing.....

That is called social engineering.

[via]

Originally posted by Black Knight Satellite:

I do not get it. If you play with people from Steam, why not simply create a chat room and activate voice chat there? I never had discord nor teamspeak.

Discord has a lot more features. Otherwise, I agree with you. I only have discord to talk to my friends since they hate the steam chat for some reason.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Been repeatedly said for years, Steam support will never contact you, they only reply when you manually submit a ticket on Steam help section, no where else, not Skype, discord, Facebook, MySpace, or etc, only Steam help section, they don't do live chats, phone calls, or private emails either. As scammers been going the whole 9 yards, they make fake pics, fake gif, fake video, they use whatever trick in the book to try get you to login to their phising sites, or get you to provide them your private information, money, or items, this exist way longer than you think, even on Blizzard, Google, Facebook, and soooooooo muuuuuucch more....

- Hey vote for my team, and they link you a phishing site link, and try get you to login.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2329645315

- hey I can't add you, please add me, or if friend with someone that got their account hijacked, you get scam message like, I report you, you been banned, and whatever to try scare you, and they tell you to trade your items to them, or if you have a login to phishing site may have a API key on account that redirect trades, they ask you to give them money, or etc...

It's best to learn what scams are, they're not hard to identify such things, but people that never had it happen to them, never bother looking up, or learning about these things, are likely to get scammed than those that has been scammed, or took the effort to educate themselves. There loads of stories, and videos all over the internet for years, if those still not enough to help you get an idea, then asking the community to give you more ideas to educate yourself can help.

If you did login to a phishing scam site, and still got access to your account, then follow these steps ASAP, delaying only make things worse for yourself, do not skip any, as this is to help you secure your accounts.
1. Scan for malware https://www.malwarebytes.com/
2. Deauthorize all other devices https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
3. Change passwords from a clean computer
4. Generate new backup codes for your Mobile App https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
5. Revoke the API key https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey (there should be nothing in the APIKEY)

Most common reason people get accounts hijack for any service really are as followed.
- Sharing account infomation with others. <--- Very common with impersonators, pretending to be Steam admin / support.
- Logging in on phishing sites. <--- Very common with skin gambling sites.
- Downloading / Installing Virus / Keylogger on your system.
- Using public devices that has keyloggers, such as cyber cafe, school computers, and etc...
- Storing your login credentials on a unsecured service that others has access to view.
- Using same login credentials for all your things, or using same login credentials on another service that had a data leak. Yes it does matter because even if it not related to Steam, if using same login credentials, hijackers will try to use those credentials to see what services you use with those credentials. https://haveibeenpwned.com/

https://youtu.be/9TRR6lHviQc

[DrApex47]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

That's as old as Steam itself I think. It's simple really.. Why would Steam contact you on Discord? The idea alone is utterly dumb.

This is obvious; however, I believe there is a significant amount going around, especially during the last few days - just better to be safe than sorry, this might help someone out.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by DrApex47:

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

That's as old as Steam itself I think. It's simple really.. Why would Steam contact you on Discord? The idea alone is utterly dumb.

This is obvious; however, I believe there is a significant amount going around, especially during the last few days - just better to be safe than sorry, this might help someone out.

No, the thing is it doesn't.

You might get the VERY occasional person see it here.

We're speakking from YEARS of seeing this every single day on here.

The sad reality is those that need to see it don't come here and don't read stuff.

That will forever be the problem.

[DrApex47]

Originally posted by CTE:

Originally posted by Black Knight Satellite:

I do not get it. If you play with people from Steam, why not simply create a chat room and activate voice chat there? I never had discord nor teamspeak.

Discord has a lot more features. Otherwise, I agree with you. I only have discord to talk to my friends since they hate the steam chat for some reason.

I'd highly recommend disabling direct DMs, even from server members as people like that can reach out to you, sounding extremely legitimate. I actually received one earlier today (knowing it was a scam, don't worry) but it could easily trick people, even pretty skeptical people.