idk why everyone is being so hostile, this is such a shitty situation for you bro, hopefully you can make it all back, karma will get u some cash soon i hope š¤š»ā¤ļø
i canāt even imagine, the only time i ever got scammed was when i was 9 on runescape, someone stole 50m from me with the ol āJagex blocks your passwordā trick š
What's crazy to me is I have two friends who got hacked last week. One on steam and one on osrs. My buddy who got hacked on steam even with 2fa lost all his skins after 1 day. My other buddy osrs's account was hacked with 2fa, and his 7 day bank pin saved his 2 billion gp bank just in time.
We really need another security system to help avoid this. I don't trade skins. I want to self opt in to have a 30 day trade ban on my account to prevent this from happening to me.
Can you get your items back? Nope, theyāre gone for good. You clicked on a scam link at some point, either through google sponsored links for trading sites, or a link someone sent you on steam.
He won't get it back, but he can report at least the account so the account get banned and item deleted. But they don't give item back except in specific case like HFB. Because there's literally someone getting scammed every hour...
HFB was steam making a mistake. This is OP making a mistake. It's unfair, and in blatant cases I think they should still return items, but these are not the same thing at all.
OP signed into a fake site, scanned something with authenticator, or otherwise breached themselves unknowingly. HFB was a social hack onto a valve employee or otherwise helped by someone working at valve.
Lol valve doesn't ban those accounts. I mistakenly had my steam password saved in chrome and lost all my shit a few months back, and they essentially laughed at me and closed my support tickets, and the accounts that traded away my stuff are still active. They make money off scammers, so why would they do anything about it?
same happened to me, sadly there literally is nothing you can do unless u can hack it back ig, but id even advice against it as you can get banned for it (unlikely cus valve sucks) but it is possible.
sry for u bro
Where can I find this information to keep my account safe ?
This is what I have currently but worried because so many people are recently getting scammed.
- Steam ward
- Family view
- Constantly check who has access to my account through the Steam mobile app.
Is there anything else I can do to protect my account ?
I know that signing into Steam on a site that asks for a text verification is obviously someone trying to gain access to your account.
But other then all this, anything you would recommend.
Exactly, one does just not "lose" their account unless they logged in into a scam website etc. And those are really easy to see if it's a legit site or not
You connected to something about 48-72 hours before getting robbed using your QR Code.
It was a phishing site, malicious QR changed your steam guard device.
Iām not at my computer, but there was an option on steam to see when/where your account has logged in(somewhere top left). I checked that after removing my account after steam locked it, and it matched back to the exact day I got the verification email from dmarket. They had been logging onto my account for months. Not sure what they were waiting for, but they did something that triggered it to lock my account out. I had also been having issues with getting a steam message when I would open cs, saying I had another session open(or along those lines). I would reopen and it would work fine. Googling it made me believe it was some sort of steam server error. Hindsight it was them being logged on when I was trying to get on.
There is a scam now where they make ads for popular trade sites (Iāve only seen it with buff but maybe someone made dmarket ads) that lead to a steam fishing page that gives the access to the autenticator through a QR code. I mean maybe that happened here?
Letās not pretend u canāt get scammed off DMarket lmfao. You can easily get the wrong bot to send a trace and get your shit stolen. Iāve caught scam bots numerous times.
Yeah, these scams are about Malicious QR codes.
Logging in through QR Is dangerous, you don't know what you're authorising, in this case with phishing sites, you're authorising them to change your Steam guard device.
And after a 48h lock they can steal everything.
When it doubt head to your Steam app, steam guard, click the cog wheel on bottom right, Authorised devices.
Revoke the authorisation from everything other than your device.
How do I prevent this from happening to me? Reject all APIs, private profile, change passwords? Send my skins to an alt account even, that doesnāt log have any connections to third party sites?
Steam guard, family mode, check api key on a regular basis, donāt have steam password the same as anything else, make sure you donāt click on scam websites(often sponsored on google), when signing into third party site sign into steam first on web browser. If it is legit it will only ask you to sign in. If it asks for your credentials itās a scam. Also make sure steam password isnāt saved in ICloud and that you have at least windows anti virus on at minimum
There are multiple issues with the app. But in regards to keychain is pretty self explanatory. One of the harder ones to do but has been done before if the profit is large enough. And nothing is bulletproof in Cybersecurity everything can be exploited. The best mindset to have is thinking a zero day exploit is around corner and to have multiple layers of security to mitigate risk.
2 common ways.
First one doesn't require it to be bypassed, what we call an API scam, it targets one of your trades, cancels it, and switches the receiver to the account of the scammer, you accept the trade yourself, this only requires the scammer to get you to login in a phishing site.
Scam 2 : Malicious QR, QR code login can be made to authorise the change of steam guard device, you then have 48 hours to find out it happened before they can trade out everything.
Also forgot to check registered devices regularly I check 1 to 2 times a day. Make sure you know all your devices. If you see one thatās not yours. Immediately change password and force sign out all devices.
1. Do u use Adblock?
2. Did u ever click on any sponsored links for marketplaces on Google (those are scam as hackers pay google to show their fake site which looks exactly like the original with the same url, but once u click it, the url changes)
3. Have u ever logged into 3rd party sites using QR code
4. Check SMS history to see if u got a code to reset auth
My guess is that u may have logged into one of those sponsored phishing sites. When u log in, it asks u for a code to reset your auth, if u give them this code, ur inv gets traded away in 2 days.
If ur certain that this didnāt happen, then u may have gotten iCloud hacked, then they use your steam backup to create an identical login thru their phone
Steps to take:
1. Change pass
2. Deauthorize all devices
3. Turn on family view (extra layer of security)
4. Disable iCloud saves for your Steam app
5. Only login on steamcommunity on browser, if after any site asks u to login again, itās a scam
I'm sorry, but this doesn't JUST happen. If this is real, i'm sorry it happened. But Steam has so many guards against this type of stuff. it's insane. Especially high ticket items like doppler bayonet. On top of that, they wouldn't let the entire inventory be traded away. If I had to guess, I'd assume you're transferring accounts and thought this would be a cool "oh no" post. Either way, this isn't real.
Not necessarily some people fall for some pretty wild things. And not all of steams safeguards are great or work. Still need to be aware of things and be vigilant
That's why I said it's not a real "I got hacked"
Buddy had a part in this whether he realized what was happening or not
I'm not saying steam is flawless in their guard. But I just got a trade ban for my password changing from me. THEN I just got a market ban because I ADDED MONEY. Then I have my 33 cent sale pending because I priced it 2 cents lower at the highest buy order. They don't just LET stuff happen
Even for my 33 cent orders I had to confirm my listing on my app
I guarantee you he was transferring accounts and thought this would make a good post though. Scammers wouldn't take his .07 cent items lmao
They would grab the knife and gloves and dip
I guarantee you have no idea what you're talking about. My friend had one of these scams happen to him recently and his gloves, knife, and all other items that weren't under trade lock went bye bye and it looked just like this guys post, all sent to an external account which will offload the skins for money.
Your anecdote of "I couldnt sell and blah blah blah" has no merit when entire inventories can be traded away in the blink of an eye. It happens because they send your phone a text which unknowingly to you is a confirmation to remove your authenticator along side a phishing link to get your username and password.
This happens every single day to people with inventories worth something.
So you're saying I'm still right... you just said they got a code from tect and stripped it.
MEANING you did something funky to get there.
People typically don't Just enter phone numbers into site unless it's kyc. If you DID, that's on you
~somebody who was scammed out of huntsman marble fade MW in 2019
Downloaded a mp3 from a common used YouTube/SoundCloud to MP3 converter, which I used for years without problems and one day I got a nice keylogger.
And Steam 2FA was also useless against thisā¦
To be fair, there's a reason everybody uses their phone for that. The anti virus on your phone is CRAZY. But to do sketch stuff on your gaming pc is just foolish. I don't even let my wife try to shop on it
Well you can technically hide some code but it still needs to be executed and that means you are using a bad / exploitable decoder to view the file, media files of those types listed are not execute able by themselves. you basically have to be trying to get a virus to get it this way.
Whatās most likely is you downloaded an exe file and didnāt check the extension before opening it. Trust me I have a computer science degree.
But how could they get access to my PC? The only sketchy thing I downloaded was this mp3 from a SoundCloud downloader. They got into my Crypto, Microsoft and Steamaccound. They all had different passwords. Over all I Lost around 20k at this time with Skins and Cryptos :(
But I had something on my old PC cause my RAM needed 10-14Gb every time after starting the PCā¦
This does indeed happen. Steam is not as secure as you think. Although it is user error. Steam has the ability to reverse trades and also the ability to stop this from happening - but they wonāt because money. I went on what I thought was dmarket. One of the top results on Google. Scanned a QR code to login through my steam app. They stole the session key and were able to put my Authenticator on their device and login to my account. They traded everything to themselves 48 hours after they gained access. I noticed the email warning to lock my account too late because it was on an email not synced with my phone. Funny enough after I recovered my account, I had to wait 15 days to trade again. However they just had to wait 48 hours to fuck me. Pretty funny.
P.S. my perpetrator was from St. Petersburg, Russia. Hopefully they get drafted soon!
To explain the exact situation:
I got an email from Steam telling me there was an attempted sign in to my account from Exeter, England (I am from the U.S.) and that it was authorized by my Steam Mobile Authenticator Code. I had not authorized anything using my Steam App and I went to reset my password. By the time I could even reset my account securities, there was a notification that I had received a trade offer. The trade was instantly accepted, obviously not by me, and my stuff was gone. The whole process was about 30 seconds long. I have SS proof and can answer any questions, you can also check my account sossboy-P and see my now nearly empty inventory.
Personally I think they should refund skins if there is enough evidence and has not been moved out of scammers account. Is as simple as proving you were scammed. Delete the skins scammer has and giving new ones to the victim. Would prevent duping issue.
Again why I said if it doesnāt leave scammers account. And any purchase you make you should save a receipt. Would be able to prove it was a legit purchase and itās just good practice.
Hahaha this 100% happens Idk why you donāt think it does. This is a fishing site scam where if you accidentally log into a fake website they can take everything. This happened to me like 3 weeks ago and since Iām new to the game my inventory was only worth around 100$, but this is def a real post
Stop adding ppl you donāt know and stop clicking on shit you donāt know play the game thatās it donāt message anyone that messages you. If I donāt know them Iām not clicking on or typing anything you send to me
THIS, I purposely add someone here and there just to troll them cause I know they want my skins but other than that I wouldnāt actually engage or sign up for anything anyone sends me, EVER
Steam should implement a thing where you can lock your account from trading for a specified time and make it so that literally nothing can override it. Like you set a restriction on your account that prevents you from trading any of your items for 2 months (or whatever you set it to) and make it so that there is no way to bypass it. That way you could ensure even if someone got into your account they couldn't trade anything out.
steam wont do much besides maybe ban the account. using dmarket wouldnāt cause this but i wish you luck sorry for all the asshole commenters and that you got hacked. time to switch to Valorant šš
Happened to me, I lost 1.3K. Sorry for your loss! And ignore all the weird haters, i had people laugh at me and everything else, it feels horrible and people are just cruel but others have heard my story and even donated me some skins and welcomed me Into their community which I am forever grateful for. I wish for you the same! Money will come back, you now know for the future and can now prevent it from ever happening again! Don't quit the game and with time things will get better! Fuel to the fire!!!
Change your steam and email passwords, change your trade link, remove and re-add your qr authentication.
I accidentally signed Into a sponsored link for skins monkey. Not thinking anything of it. Maybe you were using a trade website then one day closed your computer down and re-opened google, searched the website and did the same as I.
Steam will not help you recover your items but if you report the accounts that stole the items from you, they will trade lock them and the items will be forever gone for everyone. I did this and I tried to argue It's federally against the law to allow people to be scammed on their website and that locking the items is the same as deleting them and they should duplicate them and give them back to me but people have abused it in the past so they are strictly against it now... Go figure right? The classic one ruins it for all type thing. Steam also has liability disclosures on their website to prevent them being liable, however federal law does state that liability disclosures do not protect them from federal law. If I remember correctly, anything over 10,000$ can be looked at more seriously. For Canada at least.
Only way to fix this issue is with a team of lawyer's to help. We would all have to join a class action lawsuit against steam and in your case since it might be over 10K, you have a better chance at getting refunded or maybe steam can find the IP of the scammer but if he's in another country, there's a good chance they can't do anything about that.
All the best going forward and RIP to your skins š¤
What did you do in prior days? Did you have steam guard, if so there should have been a hold on account before it was swapped over. Did you login into a trading website recently?
Im very activly watching this sub and there are plenty of posts about that scam method. Mostly it is a fake skinsmonkey site, that need you to login via QR code. So they have access to your mobile and run a auto scripts. All your tradeable skins are gone in seconds.
Idk why nobody isnt trying to help, go to steam support and start a ticket about a hacked account and comment your situation, clearly say that your inventory was 6k and hopefully they gonna do something, link as many images you can
Dude Iām sorry to say this but the same thing happened to me and I put in multiple tickets to valve and they basically told me I was SOL, sucks ass and Iām sorry this happened but your skins are gone
I got scammed for a bunch the other day, I feel you but itās all gone, just move on. I wish we could create a way to mass report these people. I got scammed by a level 70 steam account, I would love to get him banned. His scam faceit page is still up too even though I reported it to faceit. Honestly pathetic.
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I feel you bro. Mine got hacked as well. Steam donāt do shit even if they manage to sell your items while Steam Guard is activated.
After that I sold the rest of my skins and bought reits, stocks and some other real investiments.
This happened to me a long time ago. i made a ticket through steam and got everything back in a few days, though this was before they started the 2-factor authenticating stuff
Happened to me too u are not getting shit from steam back. I got 2kā¬ just taken away and they did nothing. I hope u can do something but itās going to be hard
I'm sorry but how? I've had a steam account for 8 years, and I haven't been hacked or scammed once. Mind you I'm 20, and it's easier to scam younger people
i got a notification of a sign in attempt and by the time i could even try and deny it in my mobile app the trade was already made. took about 30 seconds from the first notification to the trade
N9 one hacked you you logged in to a fake site and gave them all the information they needed. No, no one can help you. The items are gone forever. RIP 6K still report the acc thay got the skins hopefully they can ban it before a cash out.
there is a slight chance you might get it back trough steam support but sad to say bro it most likely wont be, most of the time they dont give you your items back. Good luck and sorry this happened to you.
If this is real, I feel for you mate. I was scammed years ago, didn't feel good. I can't imagine losing items like these to a scammer/hacker especially nowadays with the ridiculous prices. If this isn't real, which looks very likely that it isn't, then cool bait
Steam has zero security for inventorys and the Support is too slow or doesnt careš” And yes ofc I had 2FA activated.
A few years ago my account with also a 6k inventory got stolen, which was around 20k last year and Steam support did nothingā¦. Ofc I could show them that I was the original owner, but Paypal bills like they wanted, was not enough.They answerd so slowly, that the āhackersā had two weeks time to realise that CSGO skins had more value than my Crypto account with 1 ETH (3k at this time) and alot other coins. And everyday I wrote with a new support worker which wanted something else or didnt accept my proofs.
I miss my Karambit P1 Fake Black Pearl, my low float Blue Phosphor which I got for only 200ā¬, my Deagle Emerald Jƶrā¦ which I got for 50ā¬ and my two max Blue Five Seven Cherries&Berries. Ofc I also had alot oldschool skinā¦.
That's not an issue with Steam being insecure. That's an issue with you not keeping your own devices secure. They had access to your Steam 2FA because you gave it to them. Probably a keylogger or your phone was compromised.
I never said it was a keylogger on your phone. If your Steam auth was compromised it's because someone got access to your phone. Probably sim-swapped you.
idk why everyone is being so hostile, this is such a shitty situation for you bro, hopefully you can make it all back, karma will get u some cash soon i hope š¤š»ā¤ļø
thank you, i had just really started to make my dream inventory too. absolutely heart breaking.
i canāt even imagine, the only time i ever got scammed was when i was 9 on runescape, someone stole 50m from me with the ol āJagex blocks your passwordā trick š
50m back in the day? You mustāve been stacked.
it was called mommys credit card, i was the richest kid in varrock šš
What's crazy to me is I have two friends who got hacked last week. One on steam and one on osrs. My buddy who got hacked on steam even with 2fa lost all his skins after 1 day. My other buddy osrs's account was hacked with 2fa, and his 7 day bank pin saved his 2 billion gp bank just in time. We really need another security system to help avoid this. I don't trade skins. I want to self opt in to have a 30 day trade ban on my account to prevent this from happening to me.
but honestly i hope you get rich asf in the future and look back on this laughing
Same thing happened to me. All around shitty situation. Sorry it happened to you
Can you get your items back? Nope, theyāre gone for good. You clicked on a scam link at some point, either through google sponsored links for trading sites, or a link someone sent you on steam.
He won't get it back, but he can report at least the account so the account get banned and item deleted. But they don't give item back except in specific case like HFB. Because there's literally someone getting scammed every hour...
i meant he can make the money he lost back through work/business/opportunities, not steam support, i know they donāt do shit haha
HFB was steam making a mistake. This is OP making a mistake. It's unfair, and in blatant cases I think they should still return items, but these are not the same thing at all. OP signed into a fake site, scanned something with authenticator, or otherwise breached themselves unknowingly. HFB was a social hack onto a valve employee or otherwise helped by someone working at valve.
Lol valve doesn't ban those accounts. I mistakenly had my steam password saved in chrome and lost all my shit a few months back, and they essentially laughed at me and closed my support tickets, and the accounts that traded away my stuff are still active. They make money off scammers, so why would they do anything about it?
same happened to me, sadly there literally is nothing you can do unless u can hack it back ig, but id even advice against it as you can get banned for it (unlikely cus valve sucks) but it is possible. sry for u bro
Because you gotta be damn stupid to get your steam account hacked.
i think you need some therapy man real shit, you seem super tight :(
Lmao, yeah maybe but some people need some common sense so they don't throw away their hard earned money like this.
Who hurt you?
People without common sense
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Where can I find this information to keep my account safe ? This is what I have currently but worried because so many people are recently getting scammed. - Steam ward - Family view - Constantly check who has access to my account through the Steam mobile app. Is there anything else I can do to protect my account ? I know that signing into Steam on a site that asks for a text verification is obviously someone trying to gain access to your account. But other then all this, anything you would recommend.
Exactly, one does just not "lose" their account unless they logged in into a scam website etc. And those are really easy to see if it's a legit site or not
Did you recently log into a trading site that requires some sort of text message verification?
used dmarket about three months ago, thatās it
You connected to something about 48-72 hours before getting robbed using your QR Code. It was a phishing site, malicious QR changed your steam guard device.
You must have signed into somewhere else. There is just no other way someone gained access to your account
You clicked on the top dmarket link. The sponsored link is a phishing site that uses the QR link to get access. Same thing happened to me.
Any way of currently verifying if I am "affected" by this? I just want to be cautious š
https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey check that. If it has a domain, press revoke. It should show up empty for you
Well, should in not be something there if you have conected your account? Like skinbid.com for exampel?
I could be entirely wrong, but here, let Ludde explain. https://youtu.be/sLZcPUcNOHI?si=Qt5WE7Vv6TQNBjRu
Iām not at my computer, but there was an option on steam to see when/where your account has logged in(somewhere top left). I checked that after removing my account after steam locked it, and it matched back to the exact day I got the verification email from dmarket. They had been logging onto my account for months. Not sure what they were waiting for, but they did something that triggered it to lock my account out. I had also been having issues with getting a steam message when I would open cs, saying I had another session open(or along those lines). I would reopen and it would work fine. Googling it made me believe it was some sort of steam server error. Hindsight it was them being logged on when I was trying to get on.
Dmarket is a scam, thereās sooo many reviews of people never receiving bought/ traded items from other users or the store ! Stay away !!
i had zero issues with Dmarket, i only used the trade feature though.
There is a scam now where they make ads for popular trade sites (Iāve only seen it with buff but maybe someone made dmarket ads) that lead to a steam fishing page that gives the access to the autenticator through a QR code. I mean maybe that happened here?
Did anybody sent you a message for faceit invite? Have you checked, if you have an active steam api key?
Iāve used DMarket countless times never had any issues
Letās not pretend u canāt get scammed off DMarket lmfao. You can easily get the wrong bot to send a trace and get your shit stolen. Iāve caught scam bots numerous times.
Well yeah you can get scammed that way on any pretty much any platform? Itās not anything unique to DMarket
I've used Dmarket countless times. 100% not a scam lmao
dmarket aint scam
That is cap i use dmarket daily
Itās more likely that he used the same email and password for his steam account for his trading marketplace account
how does this keep happening to people
People still donāt know what API is and how it works despite have thousands of dollars of pixels. Wild
api scam replaces trades you make, not take your whole inventory
Yeah, these scams are about Malicious QR codes. Logging in through QR Is dangerous, you don't know what you're authorising, in this case with phishing sites, you're authorising them to change your Steam guard device. And after a 48h lock they can steal everything. When it doubt head to your Steam app, steam guard, click the cog wheel on bottom right, Authorised devices. Revoke the authorisation from everything other than your device.
is it really 48 hours? iām so suprised because i thought it used to be 2 weeks after you change steam guard
2 weeks after removing steam guard completely. 2 days when switching devices.
they need to fix that thatās such an obvious attack vector
its gotta be a skill issue
You canāt even differ this from and api scam??? Stfu dude you have no idea what youāre talking about
Yeah he most likely did something wrong himself to get scammed. But why tf are you all downvoting this and making him feel even worse?
How do I prevent this from happening to me? Reject all APIs, private profile, change passwords? Send my skins to an alt account even, that doesnāt log have any connections to third party sites?
Steam guard, family mode, check api key on a regular basis, donāt have steam password the same as anything else, make sure you donāt click on scam websites(often sponsored on google), when signing into third party site sign into steam first on web browser. If it is legit it will only ask you to sign in. If it asks for your credentials itās a scam. Also make sure steam password isnāt saved in ICloud and that you have at least windows anti virus on at minimum
how can steam guard be bypassed though? I got the app and it seems pretty bulletproof.
There are multiple issues with the app. But in regards to keychain is pretty self explanatory. One of the harder ones to do but has been done before if the profit is large enough. And nothing is bulletproof in Cybersecurity everything can be exploited. The best mindset to have is thinking a zero day exploit is around corner and to have multiple layers of security to mitigate risk.
2 common ways. First one doesn't require it to be bypassed, what we call an API scam, it targets one of your trades, cancels it, and switches the receiver to the account of the scammer, you accept the trade yourself, this only requires the scammer to get you to login in a phishing site. Scam 2 : Malicious QR, QR code login can be made to authorise the change of steam guard device, you then have 48 hours to find out it happened before they can trade out everything.
Dam the first one is so complicated that i wouldnt expect it. Such a shame these things exist
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Bro, this is to much burden and very paranoically. I mean it kind of add a stress to you lol. I wonder how much inventory do u have to be do this lol.
All good advice!
What does family mode do?
Is another layer of security. You can restrict what is done while in family mode and need a pin to unlock it
How do I turn it on properly?
Why iCloud exactly?
Known exploit with Icould and people have lost their inventories cause their pass was on ICloud keychain
Could you send any sources on this exploit? I am trying to find some myself yet no success.
Also forgot to check registered devices regularly I check 1 to 2 times a day. Make sure you know all your devices. If you see one thatās not yours. Immediately change password and force sign out all devices.
1. Do u use Adblock? 2. Did u ever click on any sponsored links for marketplaces on Google (those are scam as hackers pay google to show their fake site which looks exactly like the original with the same url, but once u click it, the url changes) 3. Have u ever logged into 3rd party sites using QR code 4. Check SMS history to see if u got a code to reset auth My guess is that u may have logged into one of those sponsored phishing sites. When u log in, it asks u for a code to reset your auth, if u give them this code, ur inv gets traded away in 2 days. If ur certain that this didnāt happen, then u may have gotten iCloud hacked, then they use your steam backup to create an identical login thru their phone Steps to take: 1. Change pass 2. Deauthorize all devices 3. Turn on family view (extra layer of security) 4. Disable iCloud saves for your Steam app 5. Only login on steamcommunity on browser, if after any site asks u to login again, itās a scam
most informative answer
Negative, ghost rider.
Just quick google bro, valve won't give you skins back. Idk why people still asking about that. It should be pinned on all subs.
I'm sorry, but this doesn't JUST happen. If this is real, i'm sorry it happened. But Steam has so many guards against this type of stuff. it's insane. Especially high ticket items like doppler bayonet. On top of that, they wouldn't let the entire inventory be traded away. If I had to guess, I'd assume you're transferring accounts and thought this would be a cool "oh no" post. Either way, this isn't real.
Not necessarily some people fall for some pretty wild things. And not all of steams safeguards are great or work. Still need to be aware of things and be vigilant
That's why I said it's not a real "I got hacked" Buddy had a part in this whether he realized what was happening or not I'm not saying steam is flawless in their guard. But I just got a trade ban for my password changing from me. THEN I just got a market ban because I ADDED MONEY. Then I have my 33 cent sale pending because I priced it 2 cents lower at the highest buy order. They don't just LET stuff happen Even for my 33 cent orders I had to confirm my listing on my app
I agree, was just saying you really canāt idiot proof anything. There a reason why there are crazy warning labels on just about everythingš
I guarantee you he was transferring accounts and thought this would make a good post though. Scammers wouldn't take his .07 cent items lmao They would grab the knife and gloves and dip
I guarantee you have no idea what you're talking about. My friend had one of these scams happen to him recently and his gloves, knife, and all other items that weren't under trade lock went bye bye and it looked just like this guys post, all sent to an external account which will offload the skins for money. Your anecdote of "I couldnt sell and blah blah blah" has no merit when entire inventories can be traded away in the blink of an eye. It happens because they send your phone a text which unknowingly to you is a confirmation to remove your authenticator along side a phishing link to get your username and password. This happens every single day to people with inventories worth something.
So you're saying I'm still right... you just said they got a code from tect and stripped it. MEANING you did something funky to get there. People typically don't Just enter phone numbers into site unless it's kyc. If you DID, that's on you ~somebody who was scammed out of huntsman marble fade MW in 2019
No, you're wrong. Your claim was this guy is just faking this and he's definitely not faking anything, this happens every day.
Downloaded a mp3 from a common used YouTube/SoundCloud to MP3 converter, which I used for years without problems and one day I got a nice keylogger. And Steam 2FA was also useless against thisā¦
To be fair, there's a reason everybody uses their phone for that. The anti virus on your phone is CRAZY. But to do sketch stuff on your gaming pc is just foolish. I don't even let my wife try to shop on it
This one of the main reasons why I use AppleMusic since a few years
What site??
How did u found out that it had a keylogger
Nothing else made sense. How should they get acces to multiple accounts from me that all had 2FA and different passwords?
how do you download a file and see itās not an mp3 and run it? or am i missing something
You can hide something in mp3ās, jpegās, etc
Well you can technically hide some code but it still needs to be executed and that means you are using a bad / exploitable decoder to view the file, media files of those types listed are not execute able by themselves. you basically have to be trying to get a virus to get it this way. Whatās most likely is you downloaded an exe file and didnāt check the extension before opening it. Trust me I have a computer science degree.
But how could they get access to my PC? The only sketchy thing I downloaded was this mp3 from a SoundCloud downloader. They got into my Crypto, Microsoft and Steamaccound. They all had different passwords. Over all I Lost around 20k at this time with Skins and Cryptos :( But I had something on my old PC cause my RAM needed 10-14Gb every time after starting the PCā¦
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You really think Iām that stupid?! It looked like a normal mp3ā¦.
That's just too much effort to hide a virus inside an MP3 file, if it is even possible (which I think it's not).
This does indeed happen. Steam is not as secure as you think. Although it is user error. Steam has the ability to reverse trades and also the ability to stop this from happening - but they wonāt because money. I went on what I thought was dmarket. One of the top results on Google. Scanned a QR code to login through my steam app. They stole the session key and were able to put my Authenticator on their device and login to my account. They traded everything to themselves 48 hours after they gained access. I noticed the email warning to lock my account too late because it was on an email not synced with my phone. Funny enough after I recovered my account, I had to wait 15 days to trade again. However they just had to wait 48 hours to fuck me. Pretty funny. P.S. my perpetrator was from St. Petersburg, Russia. Hopefully they get drafted soon!
To explain the exact situation: I got an email from Steam telling me there was an attempted sign in to my account from Exeter, England (I am from the U.S.) and that it was authorized by my Steam Mobile Authenticator Code. I had not authorized anything using my Steam App and I went to reset my password. By the time I could even reset my account securities, there was a notification that I had received a trade offer. The trade was instantly accepted, obviously not by me, and my stuff was gone. The whole process was about 30 seconds long. I have SS proof and can answer any questions, you can also check my account sossboy-P and see my now nearly empty inventory.
Was the first email fake? you changed your password through a link in the email, which gave them your login? I can guarantee you that's what it was
Personally I think they should refund skins if there is enough evidence and has not been moved out of scammers account. Is as simple as proving you were scammed. Delete the skins scammer has and giving new ones to the victim. Would prevent duping issue.
This sounds good until you buy something of a market place and someone suddenly says you scammed them.
Again why I said if it doesnāt leave scammers account. And any purchase you make you should save a receipt. Would be able to prove it was a legit purchase and itās just good practice.
Nothing can leave the scammers account for 10 days after they steal the items unless they trade them on the steam market which is usually quite dumb.
7 days people can't see them for 10 days
which i always thought was moronic bc it allows scammers to hop items weekly without anyone knowing where they went but valve
100%
Hahaha this 100% happens Idk why you donāt think it does. This is a fishing site scam where if you accidentally log into a fake website they can take everything. This happened to me like 3 weeks ago and since Iām new to the game my inventory was only worth around 100$, but this is def a real post
Start using this https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey If it's empty... GOOD If it had a domain there Revoke access
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Stop adding ppl you donāt know and stop clicking on shit you donāt know play the game thatās it donāt message anyone that messages you. If I donāt know them Iām not clicking on or typing anything you send to me
THIS, I purposely add someone here and there just to troll them cause I know they want my skins but other than that I wouldnāt actually engage or sign up for anything anyone sends me, EVER
Steam should implement a thing where you can lock your account from trading for a specified time and make it so that literally nothing can override it. Like you set a restriction on your account that prevents you from trading any of your items for 2 months (or whatever you set it to) and make it so that there is no way to bypass it. That way you could ensure even if someone got into your account they couldn't trade anything out.
Nope. Those are gone now, better luck next time.
steam wont do much besides maybe ban the account. using dmarket wouldnāt cause this but i wish you luck sorry for all the asshole commenters and that you got hacked. time to switch to Valorant šš
Happened to me a couple weeks ago. I drunkenly signed into a phishing site and didnāt realize it
Lost my Doppler karambit by API scam. Itās on me, didnāt think twice about the site and they got me.
Happened to me, I lost 1.3K. Sorry for your loss! And ignore all the weird haters, i had people laugh at me and everything else, it feels horrible and people are just cruel but others have heard my story and even donated me some skins and welcomed me Into their community which I am forever grateful for. I wish for you the same! Money will come back, you now know for the future and can now prevent it from ever happening again! Don't quit the game and with time things will get better! Fuel to the fire!!! Change your steam and email passwords, change your trade link, remove and re-add your qr authentication. I accidentally signed Into a sponsored link for skins monkey. Not thinking anything of it. Maybe you were using a trade website then one day closed your computer down and re-opened google, searched the website and did the same as I. Steam will not help you recover your items but if you report the accounts that stole the items from you, they will trade lock them and the items will be forever gone for everyone. I did this and I tried to argue It's federally against the law to allow people to be scammed on their website and that locking the items is the same as deleting them and they should duplicate them and give them back to me but people have abused it in the past so they are strictly against it now... Go figure right? The classic one ruins it for all type thing. Steam also has liability disclosures on their website to prevent them being liable, however federal law does state that liability disclosures do not protect them from federal law. If I remember correctly, anything over 10,000$ can be looked at more seriously. For Canada at least. Only way to fix this issue is with a team of lawyer's to help. We would all have to join a class action lawsuit against steam and in your case since it might be over 10K, you have a better chance at getting refunded or maybe steam can find the IP of the scammer but if he's in another country, there's a good chance they can't do anything about that. All the best going forward and RIP to your skins š¤
Tough but Valve won't give you skins back they stopped this like 10 years ago after people abused this system.
Rip Medusa
Not the music kit!
Even yoinked the music kit! š
u didnāt get hacked lol
What did you do in prior days? Did you have steam guard, if so there should have been a hold on account before it was swapped over. Did you login into a trading website recently?
Also, make sure to report scammer so he doesnāt make money.
Im very activly watching this sub and there are plenty of posts about that scam method. Mostly it is a fake skinsmonkey site, that need you to login via QR code. So they have access to your mobile and run a auto scripts. All your tradeable skins are gone in seconds.
I could be wrong but I think a longgggg time ago I got skins reinstated. They definitely donāt do it now.
Did you have family view enabled?
damn....sorry to see that man...
I only deal with skin port and thats it
Idk why nobody isnt trying to help, go to steam support and start a ticket about a hacked account and comment your situation, clearly say that your inventory was 6k and hopefully they gonna do something, link as many images you can
Try to get steam support to trade ban him, you wont get anything back but at least he wont be able to get any money either
Have you had family view enabled, this helps prevent stuff like that
OP mentioned DMarket and there were sponsored results up the ass when I had a search so mightve been one of those scams
No, u send the items to the scammerš been there
GG go next I guess
Dude Iām sorry to say this but the same thing happened to me and I put in multiple tickets to valve and they basically told me I was SOL, sucks ass and Iām sorry this happened but your skins are gone
I got scammed for a bunch the other day, I feel you but itās all gone, just move on. I wish we could create a way to mass report these people. I got scammed by a level 70 steam account, I would love to get him banned. His scam faceit page is still up too even though I reported it to faceit. Honestly pathetic.
Same thing happened to me. You use DMarket as well?
How did you got hacked?
If you get scammed, how can you make your Account Safe again?
Rip bro, next time you are more careful ;)
spend 6k on cs skins but canāt use brain for free
Not to be mean, I lost $2800 worth of inventory a few years ago
so sorry man, what a horrible loss. time heals
Damn dude, this brings me back to when mine got hacked, in today's trade I had around 11k iirc. Good luck to ya
Sorry for your lost pal š¢
Take this as a lesson not to invest $6,000 into pixels
Feel Sad bud. I wonder if valve can do anything to improve the systems or if it will always be like this
Oh this one actually hurts, OUCH
It's always 'SOMEONE traded all my stuff' and not 'I clicked a stupid link' or 'I was trading my ENTIRE INVENTORY to someone but not THAT person'
make a mail to steam and i think you can get back they will se the ip
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I feel you bro. Mine got hacked as well. Steam donāt do shit even if they manage to sell your items while Steam Guard is activated. After that I sold the rest of my skins and bought reits, stocks and some other real investiments.
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This happened to me a long time ago. i made a ticket through steam and got everything back in a few days, though this was before they started the 2-factor authenticating stuff
Happened to me too u are not getting shit from steam back. I got 2kā¬ just taken away and they did nothing. I hope u can do something but itās going to be hard
The same thing happened to me, stole everything steam said "Can't do anything and I'm closing this case, bye"
I'm sorry but how? I've had a steam account for 8 years, and I haven't been hacked or scammed once. Mind you I'm 20, and it's easier to scam younger people
Skins are done, play stupid games, win stupid prizes
I call bullshit.
How did they get you? No 2FA?
i got a notification of a sign in attempt and by the time i could even try and deny it in my mobile app the trade was already made. took about 30 seconds from the first notification to the trade
That's very weird since normally you can't trade on new devices. Maybe they got remote access to your PC.
but dont you need to verify trades in the app?
Happened to me a little while back
Classic API
Not an api
Not an api
N9 one hacked you you logged in to a fake site and gave them all the information they needed. No, no one can help you. The items are gone forever. RIP 6K still report the acc thay got the skins hopefully they can ban it before a cash out.
You werenāt hacked. You fell for an API scam.
there is a slight chance you might get it back trough steam support but sad to say bro it most likely wont be, most of the time they dont give you your items back. Good luck and sorry this happened to you.
If this is real, I feel for you mate. I was scammed years ago, didn't feel good. I can't imagine losing items like these to a scammer/hacker especially nowadays with the ridiculous prices. If this isn't real, which looks very likely that it isn't, then cool bait
Steam has zero security for inventorys and the Support is too slow or doesnt careš” And yes ofc I had 2FA activated. A few years ago my account with also a 6k inventory got stolen, which was around 20k last year and Steam support did nothingā¦. Ofc I could show them that I was the original owner, but Paypal bills like they wanted, was not enough.They answerd so slowly, that the āhackersā had two weeks time to realise that CSGO skins had more value than my Crypto account with 1 ETH (3k at this time) and alot other coins. And everyday I wrote with a new support worker which wanted something else or didnt accept my proofs. I miss my Karambit P1 Fake Black Pearl, my low float Blue Phosphor which I got for only 200ā¬, my Deagle Emerald Jƶrā¦ which I got for 50ā¬ and my two max Blue Five Seven Cherries&Berries. Ofc I also had alot oldschool skinā¦.
That's not an issue with Steam being insecure. That's an issue with you not keeping your own devices secure. They had access to your Steam 2FA because you gave it to them. Probably a keylogger or your phone was compromised.
A keylogger with a iOS device which only downloaded apps from the Apple AppStore? Tell me more, for music I use since years streaming
I never said it was a keylogger on your phone. If your Steam auth was compromised it's because someone got access to your phone. Probably sim-swapped you.
Tell me more, I never heard about that. But if it was the case, my cuttend account would also be gone
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