NEED HELP according to someone on discord they reported me by accident and now they want me to contact a "steam admin" on discord ?

[Rotterdam010]

can someone tell me if this is legit i do not wanna lose my account for a accidental report or to people who are pretending to be someone who they are not i did not recieve any email from steam about this just a discord message from a person telling me to contact a person named Alan Yates on discord who is aparantly a steam admin ? he wanted me to send screenshots from the latest purchases and got a verification code wich he wanted me to send on discord
i do not trust this at all and whas wondering what i should do about this can someone help me ?

[Rifleman71 -V-]

People will continue to get scammed and fall for anything online...... it never fails.. just like in real life.....

[Hamless Hog]

why would you listen to some stranger like that? steam will never contact you over discord or anything like that.

[c0nner]

Just ran into this scam was really skeptical and this helped a lot so thanks so much. The steam support guys name was alan yates and as soon as i mention his named being used for scams he unadded me instantly lol

[Gimlao]

This guy on Discord tried to scam me like this ➡️ "Rande Lee#7170" 🙄

He made me add "Alan Yates#2601" on Discord ...

Then I quickly searched for "Alan Yates + Scam" on Google, and found this topic.

[J4MESOX4D]

Gimlao님이 먼저 게시:

This guy on Discord tried to scam me like this ➡️ "Rande Lee#7170" 🙄

He made me add "Alan Yates#2601" on Discord ...

Then I quiclky searched for "Alan Yates + Scam" on Google, and found this topic.

Read https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B

[Gimlao]

Indeed.

It was all very suspicious, that's why I asked Google about this.

So I blocked both of them, and reported "Rande Lee#7170".

[bennybenben805]

you can just change your name to be safe if you want

[bennybenben805]

Gimlao님이 먼저 게시:

This guy on Discord tried to scam me like this ➡️ "Rande Lee#7170" 🙄

He made me add "Alan Yates#2601" on Discord ...

Then I quickly searched for "Alan Yates + Scam" on Google, and found this topic.

i got the same scam with alan yates

[nullable]

Seretti님이 먼저 게시:

Snakub Plissken님이 먼저 게시:

But usernames are hardly treated as secure data.

You do realize that the account name, which is on the receipt and should not be known by anyone else than you, is different from your username that we see right? As for email as account name, people can change email, no?

Yes, I'm not talking about display names. I am talking about username™, the thing used in conjugation with your password.

1. User names are generally not encrypted in the database.
   
2. Lots of websites use your email as a username. (Including your email account. And email addresses also aren't secure data.)

Of course you'd feel better if bad guys didn't have any information about you at all. I often feel that way too. Ask me my Steam username, and I'll decline to provide it, for the same reasons anyone would typically want to keep it private.

But at the end of the day, despite how users feel emotionally about keeping a username private, how do systems actually treat user names? If the system doesn't treat it securely, doesn't encrypt it, then it's not being treated like secure data. Certainly less secure than a password. And if usernames were supposed to be secure we'd treat them much differently than we do.

And I'm not saying that there's no reason to keep it private. Or that there's zero benefit. I'm just saying it's extremely small, and your account security doesn't depend on your username being unknown. That's the password's job.

[Kazashi2]

I fell for that scam lol but I was able to get my account back

[IceLucidify]

I was wondering if I can get the money back because I went as far as of spending 300 dollars for this stupid I was lucky to have friends to help me but I dont want anyone to know that I lost 300 is there anyway I can get my money back?

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

IceLucidify님이 먼저 게시:

I was wondering if I can get the money back because I went as far as of spending 300 dollars for this stupid I was lucky to have friends to help me but I dont want anyone to know that I lost 300 is there anyway I can get my money back?

No.

Who in the world do you think even owes you money that you gave to a scammer?

[ShelLuser]

IceLucidify님이 먼저 게시:

I went as far as of spending 300 dollars for this stupid I was lucky to have friends to help me but I dont want anyone to know that I lost 300 is there anyway I can get my money back?

You should probably talk to your bank or whatever payment provider you used. If you used Paypal you might be able to request a chargeback, but always be careful with that because it's a rather crude method which can land you into other problems (depending on the situation).

[IceLucidify]

ShelLuser님이 먼저 게시:

IceLucidify님이 먼저 게시:

I went as far as of spending 300 dollars for this stupid I was lucky to have friends to help me but I dont want anyone to know that I lost 300 is there anyway I can get my money back?

You should probably talk to your bank or whatever payment provider you used. If you used Paypal you might be able to request a chargeback, but always be careful with that because it's a rather crude method which can land you into other problems (depending on the situation).

I should probably do that because I didnt realize until the moment so Im just trying to find wasy to get my money back because I need this money to pay for my college classes

[Hamless Hog]

ShelLuser님이 먼저 게시:

IceLucidify님이 먼저 게시:

I went as far as of spending 300 dollars for this stupid I was lucky to have friends to help me but I dont want anyone to know that I lost 300 is there anyway I can get my money back?

You should probably talk to your bank or whatever payment provider you used. If you used Paypal you might be able to request a chargeback, but always be careful with that because it's a rather crude method which can land you into other problems (depending on the situation).

Couldn’t he lose his account for fraudulent activities?