I hope you are doing well, sorry for not posting too long was not in a mood. Stay safe and protect yourself. Edit: All links to protect yourself are in the description. #steam_scammer_support
Its crazy to me that you still fell for any sort of Direct Message by "Steam Support". It would all come through the Notification Centre or your email.
Ik but I explained why I did think it's legit + he got my email so he can email me too (then if I didnt check who exactly sent the email I would fell for the scam) but yeah you got a point
even if you are not giving the items to hime they start selling your inventory on a very very low price on market,it happens to my friend also and this scammer deleted his cs game and some how he also delete his prime he try to buy again the game from the same account and he couldn"t buy it any more
If your inventory is public, scammers can find you as they scan inventories for nice items. Set your inventory to private and all those incoming friends requests will disappear. Sorry you got scammed, thanks for the vid!
People in the Comments are missing the point, Steam doesn't care if you get scammed or something. Blaming the victim by saying "you're dumb" or "I knew it was scam" is not the solution. What if your younger sibling gets scammed in this same way and losses their account? Would you say the same thing? Steam should be looking out for their customers not telling them to spend more money.
i have had account take over a couple time so i always use another account for ticket where i put in all the information they want like what was the last game you got and what you paid and the facture and so on and i always had my account back within 24 hours but im not 100% sure how it works with skins.
hey dude. i watched your vid like 1 or 2 days ago and i just met a scammer. hes trying to scam me so hard rn lol. when i watched your video i was like no way this happens to me too but it just did. thank you for the video and im really sad that your items are gone. hope you can recover 🙏. have a great day dude!
bro this is exactly what happened to me yesterday he approached me the same way he approached you but i didn't trade my skins to another account Suddenly out of nowhere i got a community ban till 2038 what should i do can someone help and is that mean my stuff is going to be in my inventory if i get my account back ?
thank god i solved this issue and what i had to do is to log out from my hacked account and report steam that my account got hijacked after that i waited couple of hours and steam emailed me with a new password for my account and that's it i got my account back and they lifted the community ban but the hacker didn't steal anything from my inventory cuz i didn't trade them to another account when he hacked me @@Rix1Dev
yes thank god i solved this issue i had to log out from my steam account and do a steam report that someone stole my account then i waited couple of hours steam Emailed me with a new password to my account and thats it i got my account back and the community ban was lifted and the Hacker didn't Steel anything from my inventory 😓
My friend got hit with this as well, luckily he was able to trade his skins to another account. He had a really hard time doing it since the trades kept getting cancelled, but somehow he managed it thankfully.
This is so messed up. If you were Anomaly and this happened to him, Steam would have recovered the belongings of him and cancelled the 7-day ban. What’s the 7-Day cooldown even benefitting when all they could do is to cancel the 7-Day ban and re-send the cooldowned stuff back to the owner. I don’t get this at all. Only famous and rich people get better treatment.
If Steam was going to ban you/your inventory why would they give you a 1 hour trade window it's basically a neon sign saying it's a scam. It's far more likely that it's one of the 3rd party sites having some issue rather than Steam. While it sucks that this happened to you I don't see how this is Steam's fault.
Yeah, bro's delusional. Also, it is a common knowledge that Steam does not return scammed items outside of specific occasions since like 2015, as people used to abuse the support. Last time I've heard of Steam returning items was circa 2021 when some dude bribed the support agent (apparently agents don't work in Valve directly or smth and are being contracted through some other companies). Using the bribed support agent dude gained the data necessary to restore abandoned accounts with old expensive skins on them, by pretending to be a returning owner. Skins were then sold to traders from whom they were sometimes sold to professional players and in total there was more than 1 million $ worth of expensive skins stolen. When Valve found out and dealt with the scammer, most of the expensive items went back to their original owners, but that is a high-profile case with one-of-a-kind items that are very expensive and they definetly didn't want bad publicity.
I feel you bro, I got scammed for my knife before by a new method of API scamming and I swore to myself ever since to never do anything that risks my steam account's items
i do not believe your API got leaked anywhere, i think you might just have forgotten that you fell for a phishing scam. it is far more likely that you logged into something you're not supposed to as if you do so, they have full access to view your account and hence can access your email. i can almost guarantee its either malware or phishing scam, not a leaked API key. Sorry you lost all your items tho.
When I scanned my device there was no viruses, and a phishing website will get access to your account in a similar way but not the way it happened, anyway its API from steam page itself explaining it here help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7F4E-1D40-43D0-73FD#:~:text=A%20scammer%20can't%20redirect,trades%20can't%20be%20redirected.&text=Scammers%20use%20pressure%20intended%20to,fear%20to%20push%20their%20scams. Just scroll down to API role in this scam or something
I'm saying it's the trading sites. This has only ever happened to CS players i know, and I've only ever seen it happening in cases where those people also use 3rd party trading sites
It has been said somewhere that dmarket does in fact collect and sell user data. They also banned and froze accounts of people based in Russia/Belarus "due to certain events", as if that is an excuse for a private company doing business with private customers, not the government. Those people, whose items and/or balance got frozen accounted for about a third of the userbase. You can imagine how big of a cash grab that was for the site owner. After enough publicity given to the issue they started unbanning people by request, but the damage is already done. As such, I avoid doing business with dmarket, unless they have one of a kind offer I can't get anywhere else. But even then, I have never generated and never will generate an API key. It provides little benefit and can be a security flaw. I don't know how someone could fall for the direct message that is not sent through a support ticket, but oh well...
Damn bro, i got scamed exactly the same 2 days ago, i fell for the exact same things as you did. They even send me an email whisch semed preaty legit. Also the send me masseges with the /code funktion, which i didnt even know this is a thing on steam and so i thought, oh thats a special message it has to be real. That hurtet when i found out i got scamed but life goes on and hopfully we all can learn out of such mistakes. Thanks for the video, now i now i wasnt the only who fell for this.
That sucks that you got scammed, the same thing happened to me and I believed it initially until I googled almost word for word the message the scammer sent and quickly saw it was an obvious scam. Also I would be surprised if your API got leaked. In my case someone I had played a few games with on cs asked me to play in a tournament with him and sent me a dodgy url that I only noticed after the attempted scam played out.
Happened to my friend a week ago. We managed to get the scammers banned within 2-3 days. They still had the skins in the inventory. But as u said steam doesnt help at all. They keep sending AI-generated messages and closing the ticket. I still wonder how they get FULL Access to the account? I mean, to change the profile and know all your information requires full access. I dont get it. (Are u German?)
Sorry to hear that, and nice 1 of getting him banned, I couldn't do that. They get almost full access by getting the API key as I mentioned in the video. Nope not german.
This video needs to get to as many people as possible to shame steam for not taking action and help victims of scammers. Sorry for loosing all your skins pal. Steam is the real scammer here. They could have stopped the trade and return your items.
bro there a guy name nathalie steam support, he ask me to keep putting 200 x3 time just to get to level 20 protection for my account cause my acc is permanent ban and i want to unban it. and then after the last one he told me to put 200 again but i dont have any money. i ask him to give my money back but he said it is not allowed because of the stea. instructions. pls help me. i need my money back. im crying rn. thats alot of money i just want to know if its a scam or no.pls i beg for your help
It has happend to me to. My API got leaked from somewhere. Luckily I have investet only one time 10Euros for a battle pass and that was it. I only wish I have let them sell all my Items and not done the friend trade. So steamguard im my case had not reacted to a selling of my items. They could have sold all my items. That is what I recomend you do. If it happens just let them sell all your Items. At least you will have some money on your account. Do not trade.
Dayum poor you If i will get these scams witch i did he sold all my tf2 items my friend gave me and if it happpens again Ama say the worst words to the fake steam guy
Just been scammed to , same way almost , tried to trade my huntsman knife gamma doppler phase 4 with handwraps to my other account , same thing happend it got to another account rip ,i will never buy anything again first and last time ..
this started way before you knew it...hacker had all the right moves and had accces to your API before..so technially you fell for fake site which stole ur key..then rest happend...i get alot of msg for trades and fake login sites to steal but i just laugh at them knowing they are trying hard to hack :)
leaving a comment to boost the algo and boost the visibility of this video, everyone has to know what steam does for people in this situation which atleast in your case is nothing, which makes me respect steam alot less
Since the skins have real money value this would be theft but because of how huge steam is and we the people so small compared and we never take too much action steam just makes money of the poor. If people would start getting involved in suing steam just like the guy from austria which sued them because he lost a bunch of money on steam gambling and steam had to pay his money back since in europe is illegal to run gambling games without a casino license.
hey just wanted to say this happend to me right now, i guess they improved in some way and are actually texting like real bots. they dont respond if its not in the command they wish you respond in. it looks very real. if you dont get a email or a noti from steam it self dont belive it. just do the steps the man in the video explained and you will be good to go
i've been a victim. Contacted Steam help and because i had the "help page account" and phonenumber is inchangeable from steam without your phone AND email. I got my profile back, BUT HOLY FUCK They was authentic and psychotic in a way. way different from "normal chats"
Bro a scammer said like I’m sorry I accidentally reported you for illegal purchases and they said we gotta make a appeal so they sended me a admin account and i didn’t know how I was stupid and and I sended them not important pictures just proof but in my gut like hey this is a scam so I searched steam scammer and this so I sended him three be careful of steam scammers videos and the admin right and he stopped talking so I reported him about stealing info bozo tried get my account 😂😂😂
HONESTLY IF STEAM CAME AFTER A SMALL FRY LIKE ME FOR THIS I WOULD SUE THEM BECAUSE THEY DIDNT GOO AFTER HTE BIG STREAMERS MAKING MILLIONS OFF THE THIRD PARTY SITEES FIRST. MAJOR LAWSUIT
I hope you are doing well, sorry for not posting too long
was not in a mood.
Stay safe and protect yourself.
Edit: All links to protect yourself are in the description.
#steam_scammer_support
Its crazy to me that you still fell for any sort of Direct Message by "Steam Support". It would all come through the Notification Centre or your email.
Ik but I explained why I did think it's legit + he got my email so he can email me too (then if I didnt check who exactly sent the email I would fell for the scam) but yeah you got a point
@@Rix1Dev Just proves you are human and not an AI bot and its probably is googles fault.
i wouldve never fallen for this. Real Steam will never send you a private message. its either going to be through the ticket system or email.
No, you will get banned immediately without any warning
yeah, valve will most likely community ban your account, it would show a red message about it, they wouldn't change your bio lol
even if you are not giving the items to hime they start selling your inventory on a very very low price on market,it happens to my friend also and this scammer deleted his cs game and some how he also delete his prime he try to buy again the game from the same account and he couldn"t buy it any more
If your inventory is public, scammers can find you as they scan inventories for nice items. Set your inventory to private and all those incoming friends requests will disappear. Sorry you got scammed, thanks for the vid!
You logged in somewhere where it had your API key, that's how it got leaked.
i really feel bad for you... i almost lost my inv yesterday to this. The scammers are getting really good.
No, steam is getting very bad. Steam support is useless nowadays
People in the Comments are missing the point, Steam doesn't care if you get scammed or something. Blaming the victim by saying "you're dumb" or "I knew it was scam" is not the solution. What if your younger sibling gets scammed in this same way and losses their account? Would you say the same thing?
Steam should be looking out for their customers not telling them to spend more money.
Exactly!
i have had account take over a couple time so i always use another account for ticket where i put in all the information they want like what was the last game you got and what you paid and the facture and so on and i always had my account back within 24 hours but im not 100% sure how it works with skins.
hey dude. i watched your vid like 1 or 2 days ago and i just met a scammer. hes trying to scam me so hard rn lol. when i watched your video i was like no way this happens to me too but it just did. thank you for the video and im really sad that your items are gone. hope you can recover 🙏. have a great day dude!
bro this is exactly what happened to me yesterday he approached me the same way he approached you but i didn't trade my skins to another account Suddenly out of nowhere i got a community ban till 2038 what should i do can someone help and is that mean my stuff is going to be in my inventory if i get my account back ?
I have no idea, did you talk to Steam?
thank god i solved this issue and what i had to do is to log out from my hacked account and report steam that my account got hijacked after that i waited couple of hours and steam emailed me with a new password for my account and that's it i got my account back and they lifted the community ban but the hacker didn't steal anything from my inventory cuz i didn't trade them to another account when he hacked me @@Rix1Dev
yes thank god i solved this issue i had to log out from my steam account and do a steam report that someone stole my account then i waited couple of hours steam Emailed me with a new password to my account and thats it i got my account back and the community ban was lifted and the Hacker didn't Steel anything from my inventory 😓
give this guy some likes man, great video, i just realised u are small at the end, when u talked about it, hope u grow alot
Thank you, this happened to me and it makes sense now. I was so lost for ages, they had a Vac van in my account somehow too
My friend got hit with this as well, luckily he was able to trade his skins to another account. He had a really hard time doing it since the trades kept getting cancelled, but somehow he managed it thankfully.
Additionally he has never used the api key so your story is kind of likely.
This is so messed up. If you were Anomaly and this happened to him, Steam would have recovered the belongings of him and cancelled the 7-day ban. What’s the 7-Day cooldown even benefitting when all they could do is to cancel the 7-Day ban and re-send the cooldowned stuff back to the owner. I don’t get this at all. Only famous and rich people get better treatment.
Man that sucks, good shit on making people aware of it, and admitting what you did wrong in order to help others 😊
If Steam was going to ban you/your inventory why would they give you a 1 hour trade window it's basically a neon sign saying it's a scam. It's far more likely that it's one of the 3rd party sites having some issue rather than Steam. While it sucks that this happened to you I don't see how this is Steam's fault.
Yeah, bro's delusional. Also, it is a common knowledge that Steam does not return scammed items outside of specific occasions since like 2015, as people used to abuse the support. Last time I've heard of Steam returning items was circa 2021 when some dude bribed the support agent (apparently agents don't work in Valve directly or smth and are being contracted through some other companies). Using the bribed support agent dude gained the data necessary to restore abandoned accounts with old expensive skins on them, by pretending to be a returning owner. Skins were then sold to traders from whom they were sometimes sold to professional players and in total there was more than 1 million $ worth of expensive skins stolen. When Valve found out and dealt with the scammer, most of the expensive items went back to their original owners, but that is a high-profile case with one-of-a-kind items that are very expensive and they definetly didn't want bad publicity.
I feel you bro, I got scammed for my knife before by a new method of API scamming and I swore to myself ever since to never do anything that risks my steam account's items
i do not believe your API got leaked anywhere, i think you might just have forgotten that you fell for a phishing scam. it is far more likely that you logged into something you're not supposed to as if you do so, they have full access to view your account and hence can access your email. i can almost guarantee its either malware or phishing scam, not a leaked API key. Sorry you lost all your items tho.
When I scanned my device there was no viruses, and a phishing website will get access to your account in a similar way but not the way it happened, anyway its API from steam page itself explaining it here help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7F4E-1D40-43D0-73FD#:~:text=A%20scammer%20can't%20redirect,trades%20can't%20be%20redirected.&text=Scammers%20use%20pressure%20intended%20to,fear%20to%20push%20their%20scams.
Just scroll down to API role in this scam or something
I fell for this a couple days ago are my skins cooked?
I'm saying it's the trading sites. This has only ever happened to CS players i know, and I've only ever seen it happening in cases where those people also use 3rd party trading sites
It has been said somewhere that dmarket does in fact collect and sell user data. They also banned and froze accounts of people based in Russia/Belarus "due to certain events", as if that is an excuse for a private company doing business with private customers, not the government. Those people, whose items and/or balance got frozen accounted for about a third of the userbase. You can imagine how big of a cash grab that was for the site owner. After enough publicity given to the issue they started unbanning people by request, but the damage is already done. As such, I avoid doing business with dmarket, unless they have one of a kind offer I can't get anywhere else. But even then, I have never generated and never will generate an API key. It provides little benefit and can be a security flaw. I don't know how someone could fall for the direct message that is not sent through a support ticket, but oh well...
Damn bro, i got scamed exactly the same 2 days ago, i fell for the exact same things as you did. They even send me an email whisch semed preaty legit. Also the send me masseges with the /code funktion, which i didnt even know this is a thing on steam and so i thought, oh thats a special message it has to be real. That hurtet when i found out i got scamed but life goes on and hopfully we all can learn out of such mistakes. Thanks for the video, now i now i wasnt the only who fell for this.
I got scammed for 3500$ and i think like you when you have all the proof of it, then steam should be helping... But what can we do..
Wow, great video. When I saw it I think it has more likes. Nice job man, good luck in future
That sucks that you got scammed, the same thing happened to me and I believed it initially until I googled almost word for word the message the scammer sent and quickly saw it was an obvious scam. Also I would be surprised if your API got leaked. In my case someone I had played a few games with on cs asked me to play in a tournament with him and sent me a dodgy url that I only noticed after the attempted scam played out.
Happened to my friend a week ago. We managed to get the scammers banned within 2-3 days. They still had the skins in the inventory. But as u said steam doesnt help at all. They keep sending AI-generated messages and closing the ticket.
I still wonder how they get FULL Access to the account? I mean, to change the profile and know all your information requires full access. I dont get it.
(Are u German?)
Sorry to hear that, and nice 1 of getting him banned, I couldn't do that.
They get almost full access by getting the API key as I mentioned in the video.
Nope not german.
This video needs to get to as many people as possible to shame steam for not taking action and help victims of scammers.
Sorry for loosing all your skins pal.
Steam is the real scammer here. They could have stopped the trade and return your items.
I lost $400 to a Steam employee scammer a couple days ago.
bro there a guy name nathalie steam support, he ask me to keep putting 200 x3 time just to get to level 20 protection for my account cause my acc is permanent ban and i want to unban it. and then after the last one he told me to put 200 again but i dont have any money. i ask him to give my money back but he said it is not allowed because of the stea. instructions. pls help me. i need my money back. im crying rn. thats alot of money i just want to know if its a scam or no.pls i beg for your help
It has happend to me to. My API got leaked from somewhere. Luckily I have investet only one time 10Euros for a battle pass and that was it. I only wish I have let them sell all my Items and not done the friend trade. So steamguard im my case had not reacted to a selling of my items. They could have sold all my items. That is what I recomend you do. If it happens just let them sell all your Items. At least you will have some money on your account. Do not trade.
what if they sold it for 0.01
@@tnolentin then you would have 0.01$ for every item. 100 items and you have a 1$. So you would at least have something instead of nothing. 😄
Dam thats scary
Sorry that you got scammed but im sure you will save more people out of this
Dayum poor you
If i will get these scams witch i did he sold all my tf2 items my friend gave me
and if it happpens again
Ama say the worst words to the fake steam guy
Just been scammed to , same way almost , tried to trade my huntsman knife gamma doppler phase 4 with handwraps to my other account , same thing happend it got to another account rip ,i will never buy anything again first and last time ..
Sorry to hear that...
funny how they rushed to get the skins back to HFB, just goes to show that they only care about people of that level.
this started way before you knew it...hacker had all the right moves and had accces to your API before..so technially you fell for fake site which stole ur key..then rest happend...i get alot of msg for trades and fake login sites to steal but i just laugh at them knowing they are trying hard to hack :)
Dam so sorry for your loss 💔
bro, i dont trust any extensions on chrome since they have ability to read and change data on steam soooo
be safe with what extensions you use
leaving a comment to boost the algo and boost the visibility of this video, everyone has to know what steam does for people in this situation which atleast in your case is nothing, which makes me respect steam alot less
Since the skins have real money value this would be theft but because of how huge steam is and we the people so small compared and we never take too much action steam just makes money of the poor. If people would start getting involved in suing steam just like the guy from austria which sued them because he lost a bunch of money on steam gambling and steam had to pay his money back since in europe is illegal to run gambling games without a casino license.
We surely need gov regulations on gaming industry
I am getting scamd HE SAME right now
Can someone help me ?
Nwm i defeted scammer ez
@@bubrr7693 Well done.
i got 1500$ scamed 2 months ago my knife and gloves are gone lol,i felt so sad but now im feeling alot better
Geez, how?
@@mediumplayer1 API scam,be careful when you trade and know you put API key in some site always rewoke
hey
just wanted to say this happend to me right now, i guess they improved in some way and are actually texting like real bots. they dont respond if its not in the command they wish you respond in. it looks very real. if you dont get a email or a noti from steam it self dont belive it. just do the steps the man in the video explained and you will be good to go
i've been a victim. Contacted Steam help and because i had the "help page account" and phonenumber is inchangeable from steam without your phone AND email. I got my profile back, BUT HOLY FUCK They was authentic and psychotic in a way. way different from "normal chats"
Thats what happend to me today got scam by api wich i have never heard about lol
u probably installed some shady browser extension that took your api key
Got scammed 3k worth of skin with this 💀💀
OMG
Sorry for that...
you definitely should've revoked the api key first
i hope you get the things back
1:20 basic intelligence check, failed
why is the word "purchasing" capitalized incorrectly?
Same thing almost happened to me
The same happened to me
Dude its the same site you traded skins with 😂
Bro a scammer said like I’m sorry I accidentally reported you for illegal purchases and they said we gotta make a appeal so they sended me a admin account and i didn’t know how I was stupid and and I sended them not important pictures just proof but in my gut like hey this is a scam so I searched steam scammer and this so I sended him three be careful of steam scammers videos and the admin right and he stopped talking so I reported him about stealing info bozo tried get my account 😂😂😂
And he said something about csgo knifes and I don’t even have csgo
😂🤣@@Iamacivilianok
HONESTLY IF STEAM CAME AFTER A SMALL FRY LIKE ME FOR THIS I WOULD SUE THEM BECAUSE THEY DIDNT GOO AFTER HTE BIG STREAMERS MAKING MILLIONS OFF THE THIRD PARTY SITEES FIRST. MAJOR LAWSUIT
man i geting it too
Lmao so obvious
mmm