My account has been hyjacked, "Accidentally reported you for duped items"

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yoloshark3 12 May, 2019 @ 9:17pm

Hello, so I'm a victim of the "Accidentally reported you for duped items". My main steam account was hyjacked when I stupidly trusted a stranger friend called TW 猫猫 of mine on steam. She told me that she had reported me by accident for fraud and duped items on tf2 and told me to tell this "so-called admin" that I was innocent and so i friended him and talked to him. This is when I messed up, he told me to give him my account details so that he could fix my account and I trusted him because he was a "so-called admin". After that, he changed my details and took my account for himself. The reason why he scammed me was because of my tf2 items, he needs to wait 15 days until he can trade my items to his account and so he has steam autherniator on. I just wanna say bruh, I'm only 14 and I'm not a rich kid. Also, I spent so much money on my main steam account. Luckily some guy can help me in 3 days if i give him 10 dollars. I'm speechless, I don't know what to do and I'm crying and scared kinda.

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Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

You were surrounded by liars.
Dont forget how easy that was for them.

Good that you got it solved.

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Zekiran 12 May, 2019 @ 9:23pm

You are beign scammed.

DO NOT trade. DO NOT click any links, and if you have already given them your account information you need to go through the steps to recover it.

you are NOT going to EVER get "help" from some guy for 10 dollars. REPORT ALL THEIR PROFILES. Block, Ignore, and make sure that your account is SECURE.

Teksura 12 May, 2019 @ 9:25pm

Originally posted by yoloshark3:
I don't know what to do and I'm crying and scared kinda.

Recover your account. Simple.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5421-QTFB-3090

Don't do anything the scammers tell you. And certainly don't give them money. They are not there to help you. They are there to screw you over. Report their profiles. All of them. And use the recovery tool. If that doesn't work, contact support following the instructions on the page I gave you.

And because I have to keep telling people this, "But they changed the email" is not a reason to give up when you're given the option to either "send a recovery to the email on record" or hit the "I do not have access to this email" button. You hit the buttons saying you don't have access to the things you don't have access to until you either find something that works, or are given the option to open a ticket.

Last edited by Teksura; 12 May, 2019 @ 9:29pm

yoloshark3 12 May, 2019 @ 9:31pm

Someone told me that if I contacted steam, then my account would be blocked forever as they would not be able to tell who the scammer is and who the victim is

yoloshark3 12 May, 2019 @ 9:32pm

also, why would the scammer scam me if he knew that valve would ban him

whatamidoing 12 May, 2019 @ 9:34pm

Originally posted by yoloshark3:
Someone told me that if I contacted steam, then my account would be blocked forever as they would not be able to tell who the scammer is and who the victim is

Someone (one of the scammers?) told you wrong, because valve requests proof. If you trade your items, you can't get those back, though.

Originally posted by yoloshark3:
also, why would the scammer scam me if he knew that valve would ban him

Because he could just make a new account?

yoloshark3 12 May, 2019 @ 9:36pm

Originally posted by whatamidoing:
Originally posted by yoloshark3:
Someone told me that if I contacted steam, then my account would be blocked forever as they would not be able to tell who the scammer is and who the victim is
Someone (one of the scammers?) told you wrong, because valve requests proof. If you trade your items, you can't get those back, though.

Originally posted by yoloshark3:
also, why would the scammer scam me if he knew that valve would ban him
Because he could just make a new account?

That someone is the person who is helping me

whatamidoing 12 May, 2019 @ 9:37pm

Originally posted by yoloshark3:
Originally posted by whatamidoing:
Someone (one of the scammers?) told you wrong, because valve requests proof. If you trade your items, you can't get those back, though.

Because he could just make a new account?

That someone is the person who is helping me

Get it through your skull that he's not helping you, he's scamming you. What's he offered to do, specifically?

yoloshark3 12 May, 2019 @ 9:44pm

Originally posted by whatamidoing:
Originally posted by yoloshark3:

That someone is the person who is helping me
Get it through your skull that he's not helping you, he's scamming you. What's he offered to do, specifically?

I know, I'm not gonna trust him anyways then. I can't explain, there's too much to talk about what he offered.

Teksura 12 May, 2019 @ 9:48pm

Originally posted by yoloshark3:
Someone told me that if I contacted steam, then my account would be blocked forever as they would not be able to tell who the scammer is and who the victim is

And you believed that crock of lies? Really?

And how exactly do you think giving free money to some random dude on the internet is going to help anything?

Follow the instructions in the actual support article for recovering your steam account. Don't keep posting here about what the scammer said or why you trust them over Steam itself. Get your account back. You gain nothing by delaying.

whatamidoing 12 May, 2019 @ 9:48pm

Originally posted by yoloshark3:
Originally posted by whatamidoing:
Get it through your skull that he's not helping you, he's scamming you. What's he offered to do, specifically?

I know, I'm not gonna trust him anyways then. I can't explain, there's too much to talk about what he offered.

Well, if your account was hijacked, the link to steam's recovery process was posted above. It's quite straightforward, and there's not much to talk about it, just do what it says and give it the information it wants. Worst case scenario, you contact steam support with the proof and info they ask for.

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yoloshark3 12 May, 2019 @ 10:18pm

Done, I now need to wait

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Zekiran 12 May, 2019 @ 10:25pm

Good. Do not trade anything and DEFINITELY do not EVER give ANYONE money.

EVER.

It's one scam. Probably one person behind both accounts. Just keep calm, and follow the recovery process that Tek posted. You'll be fine. At worst, you may lose a few items if you've already traded them away. But now you know: do not blindly panic, don't blindly trust when someone tells you there's a problem AND happens to have a solution that you must do something like pay for.

Steam / Valve will NEVER ask you to do any of that.

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