Discord Scam (I accidentally reported your steam account for illegal purchases, heres the support: steamuniverse)

[Olgierdos_11]

I got baited into this last night, didn't think much of it and blindly followed their instructions, i got sceptical though after they started send screen shots of things that didn't make sense. Unfortunately i lost stuff in he process but recovered my account and went ham on changing all my passwords, and authentication processes etc. changed other passwords to bank details and other personal data. I felt stupid after the fact. Because in the back of my mind i knew they were just scamming me. Spent about 4 hours last night just messing with the scammer because i needed to get something out of it, even if it was just humour.

Don't buy the gift cards they send you links to and send them the code
Don't trade with them
Don't give them personal details or passwords to your steam or anything else for that matter.

A discord user form a mutual server will contact you saying they accidentally reported your account, this is not the case they haven't and it's a scam.

They will get you to contact a friend that is a valve employee ( they are not a Valve Employee)

once you have contacted the second user, this user will tell you that there are glitch purchases on you account and in order to remove the ban you must buy steam wallet gift cards and send them the code to validate the glitch purchases... THERE A NO GLITCH PURCHASES (remember that)
If you don't believe their credibility they will send you a authenticity of account screenshot (note these are fake) they will also send a link to a valve employee account on steam (note that at this stage they are lying to you aswell)


Don't trust the internet Kids
Pending bans don't exist on steam
If steam was going to ban you, It's is an immediate thing and should consider your account lost at that point.

[Cathulhu]

You are aware that this is a well known scam, so well known that even Valve made an OFFICIAL support article, right?

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3195-9FFB-BA06-F25B

Why do you think your thread will achieve more than an official support article or any of the thousands of threads we got over the years?

[Korchi]

well i just met one in discord. i am just gonna see how much he is gonna ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and enjoy it. i am not gonna do any steps that he says

[Korchi]

he blocked me because i roast the ♥♥♥♥ out of him

[Korchi]

it really made me laugh for 1 hour

[Hi Im Swat]

Originally posted by Korchi:

The winner is actually him because he will pass on your account(s) to other scammers since you confirmed your account is active. Scammers pay for lists of known active users.

Next time, report, block, and move on with life. Never respond no matter what.

Also, please don’t bump dead threads from several months / years ago.

[Wayne]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.