How to spot a bought or recovered account.

This guide will show you the steps in order to spot out someone using a bought or recovered account.

Introduction

Seeing someone in your lobby with an old Steam account, a Five Year Veteran Coin and other old rewards has become common.
This uproar of old Steam accounts is due to a method being released, this method allowed people to recover old Steam accounts (not theirs) using Steam support.

Meaning any idiot could get a 12 year old Steam account, with Five Year Veteran Coin in the matter of minutes.

It's easy to spot people with bought or recovered accounts, and I will be going over how to spot such bought or recovered account.

Steam Badges

A problem for many bought or recovered account holders, is the badge section of the account.
If you check their badge list, the unlock date for the badges will likely be recent, maybe just a month or two ago.

If someone's Steam account is 12 years old, and all his badges are only a month old, it raises the red flag for it being a bought or recovered Steam account. However don't convict someone based on this alone.

Achievements

Once again, someone using a bought or recovered account cannot change the unlock date for achievements.
Check their achievements for CS:GO and see their unlock date. Also check the unlock date for achievements in other games, such as CS:S.

Idled hours

To further promote their accounts legitimacy, people will "idle" hours on games.
Simply meaning they will have the game running for hours on end, on purpose, so to increase their "hours played".

To see if someone has idled their hours, check all their games.
Some idiots idle on all their games, meaning they would have something like 500 hours on every game, including games like Half-Life 1 or Team Fortress Classic.

Also games with achievements, such as CS:GO or CS:S, check their unlock date, if someone has 2000 hours on CS:S while maintaining only a couple achievements with a recent unlock date, it's certainly idled.

Name history

To check their name history dates, add "/namehistory" after their Steam community ID.

After doing this, you'll be able to see their last 10 names, along with the date in which they changed their alias.
Look out for the name "[unknown]", if you see this, they 100% have a bought or recovered account.

If they only have a couple names, and the dates are recent, this also raises the red flag.

Comments

Have a look at their comments, go to the very first page and check the date.

Once again, if it's fairly recent, it further proves the account is bought or recovered.

Friends

Usually bought account have a little amount of friends.

Use this website: https://steamid.eu/ to check how long they have had fiends added.

Simply put in their Steam community ID, and scroll down to "Steam Friends", there will be a column called "Days friends", if they haven't had friends for longer than at least a year, it's likely a bought or recovered account.

Operation Coins

Anyone can buy old operation passes and redeem the bronze level of the operation.

If someone has a selection of old operation coins, check their inventory, click on the coin and see what comes up. A real operation coin would show information in BLUE text, such as play-time, matches won or whatever.

If the coin information box has ANY blue text within, then it is a legit coin.

Here is a picture of the oldest operation coin, the one below is a LEGIT operation coin, this is due to the playtime being displayed in BLUE text.



Here is a picture of a market bought operation coin, this is NOT legit. Someone simply bought this on the market.

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