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Sunny 30 Jul @ 8:46am

illegal trade items stolen

At 11:48/49/50 today 30/07/2025, i had three emails from Steam saying that 3 individuals had had initiated trades. The EMAIL from STEAM stated that I had received over 450 items from them and I had nothing taken. Curious I checked the trades, which I had NOT been involved in, and noticed that the trades were all the items from my account. Also the items where ALL TAKEN from my account NOT GIVEN as stated in the emails from STEAM. How does this happen. And why will I never get anything back as its clearly stolen, ... Oh my acct is 2fa and my PC runs eset32 security. Im baffles annoyed and very angry having spent time MONEY only to be informed that anything lost has gone. How can this be prevented.

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Thermal Lance 30 Jul @ 8:56am

This can be prevented by not giving away your credentials.

a "hacker" would have to:

Guess your username.

Guess your password.

Guess a 30s short lived code for the 2FA.

All of them have lots of combination.

Accounts are phished. You need to figure out where you leaked your info. Nobody can do that for you.

Last edited by Thermal Lance; 30 Jul @ 8:57am

Beardface31 30 Jul @ 8:59am

You gave your account information away. Don't give your account information away....

Originally posted by Sunny:
How can this be prevented.

Last edited by Beardface31; 30 Jul @ 8:59am

Overseer 30 Jul @ 10:46am

Originally posted by Sunny:
How can this be prevented.

By only sticking to the official Steam website operated by Valve and never deviating to other websites that imitate the login. All you need is an active session and no other website using the Steam login would ever ask you for your account or password. And if it does its pishing.

Hammer Of Evil 30 Jul @ 11:11am

Originally posted by Sunny:
How can this be prevented.

in a phishing attack, the user is the vulnerability. not the computer. so an antivirus doesn't protect against it.

Brian9824 12 Oct @ 5:50pm

Originally posted by Tommy Gray x Land Raider:
Originally posted by Brian9824:

Not how it works, there is no software that phish's for your account. If you were hijacked the most likely reason is you entered your password on a phishing site, skin trading site, etc and they used that. It didn't have to be recent either, as some of the scammers sit on accounts for months before acting making it harder to trade where they compromised their account
I don't recall ever doing that, I checked my recent login history and found the unauthorized login was from Troy, Ohio.

Doesnt matter where the login was from. There are lots of variants like if you've ever used 3rd party sites, if your friends asked you to "vote" for their team, etc. The entire point is you don't know where you were phished

rawWwRrr 12 Oct @ 7:09pm

Originally posted by Tommy Gray x Land Raider:
M: hello
T: hi
M: What's your CS rank?
T: I don't do CS.
M: Could you please help by giving a Boost Rep to my team?
T: What is that?
M: [redacted]
M: .

Please do not repost phishing links in your post. You're just helping them to hijack others.

Originally posted by Tommy Gray x Land Raider:
I wonder if I fell for a phishing scam because I don't do Counter Strike of any games in the series, and I'm not familiar with the site, and the site asked for my user id and password. And my inventory was stolen a week afterwards. I unfriended him afterwards but I recovered the link to their account. If so I could report that account if this is enough evidence.

The vote for my team link is a common hijack vector. You thought you were logging in to Steam but it was really the site you visited that collected your login info and hijacked your account.

Last edited by rawWwRrr; 12 Oct @ 7:15pm

Brian9824 12 Oct @ 7:15pm

Originally posted by Tommy Gray x Land Raider:
I wonder if I fell for a phishing scam because I don't do Counter Strike of any games in the series, and I'm not familiar with the site, and the site asked for my user id and password. And my inventory was stolen a week afterwards. I unfriended him afterwards but I recovered the link to their account. If so I could report that account if this is enough evidence.

Yep, that is a text book scam, they took the info you entered on that site, logged into steam, then waited a week and stole your items

TheStoryteller01 13 Oct @ 5:41am

Originally posted by Overseer:
Originally posted by Sunny:
How can this be prevented.
By only sticking to the official Steam website operated by Valve and never deviating to other websites that imitate the login. All you need is an active session and no other website using the Steam login would ever ask you for your account or password. And if it does its pishing. :hot_poop:

This.

There are no shortcuts and there is no easy way, just the risk to get scammed.

Sunny 15 Oct @ 12:28am

NO it was hacked, i wasnt on a weird site I have ESET 32 on and I did get a notice via rust but the 3 individuals were fast and even as i changed the password I could do nothing and RUST wouldnt assist.