Originally posted by 🐱Sir Edmund's Spoopy Kitteh:

Originally posted by Bumbefly Sony Test םו:

Right! Sorry for leaving room for misinterpretation. I didn't mean to advertise but to show where possibly scammed items went.

Ah OK...yeah I would post a new topic and unfortunately we are unable to get your items back for you. Simply report them and move on.

You're not seriously thinkling he stole all that from me are you? If i'ld need help i'ld go to the Help & tips forum.
However iwhen i'm art Help & Tips i provide help & tips, not ask.

Right! Sorry for leaving room for misinterpretation. I didn't mean to advertise but to show where possibly scammed items went.

[Although off-topic to the OP, i didn't think my message is off-topic to the Title of this thread. Otherwise sory for hyjacking this thread.]

[edit] likely to be a scam [endEdit]
€100.000,= worth of TF2 items for sale outside the Steam Market :
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/Netherlands/discussions/0/1479857071247433296/

91 name changes recorded on the offering account.
[Edit] An honoust trader would not likely change nickname that often.

Ah, I stand corrected. Here are examples from acc's under invesifation that still can be used. Look at the may acc's nicnamed iiiiiiiiiiiiii, the ones with a dog and the ones with "free Skins" as an avatar show no info yet games are played (or idled) from them. The accounts with numerical digits as an avatarare not yet under suspicion (reported today for 1 scamspammer from today spams a forum where i regulary visit).

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/teyla-games#members
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/insaynGames#members

I reported many a scammer/malwarespammer and i think it's a suspended account (suspencion includes a community ban) : member since 2004 it looks like a hijacked acc to me. Steam keeps this acc safe for when the legit owner wants to reclaim the acc..

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Hope this is ok here, but I have recently attempted to comprise a list of commonly-seen errors/ban messages for those "I have a VAC ban" threads where users have no ban visible on the profile, and it sometimes takes them a page or two to post the message they are seeing.

This is maybe confusing to them or somehow they don't understand, as they often take so long to post the message. So I have made a list to maybe cut down on that and hopefully help them and the forum users to cause less stress and frustration in asking for the message.

Here it is so far. I am trying to keep it short for less confusion, but feel free to suggest any additinos and also, copy and paste this as you wish, to maybe help anyone in such a situation.

Pick the exact message or "ban" from the list below, please. DO NOT guess, if you are unsure.

1. "VAC was unable to verify your game session"
2. "Disconnected by VAC - You cannot play on VAC secured servers"
3. "Global Cooldown - Majorly Disruptive"
4. "Global Cooldown - Minorly Disruptive"
5. "Global Cooldown - This account is permanently untrusted"
6. "You have launched the game in insecure mode"
7. "You have been banned from this server"

If somehow it is none of the above, then post what you saw in exact words instead.

+ message
KB article "Secure connection failed, No Steam logon, or A connection to the VAC servers could not be made"
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7579-RPSX-6098

I see nothing wrong with Countries this badge spam comes from. A bit more USA and China then other Countries which is more or less in the line of expectations. I can't read Russian so i don't realy know about the Russian Federation. At least from there no noteworthy nonsence-spam in English, random numbers or emoji's.

I do however see a shift from DOTA/CSGO to Unknown Battlegrounds.
Furthermore, there was 1 day on Steam Client Beta forum as well as on New to Steam forum with accounts posting nonsence with a random list of numbers as a nickname and no avatar uploaded. These were all Unknown Battleground players, UBG being the only game in most cases. Example from today :
http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/discussions/forum/30/1474222595291107645/
Note, the one posting nonsence with an avatar is a suspicious acc to me as well, already reported to Steam as a side effect of posting a simmular comment on the Steam Client Beta forum.

From this i expect Unknown Battlegrounds to become as infested with scam-spam, phishers & some malware and maybe cheaters, as CSGO & DOTA are.

Yeah i mean the listing of forum visitors on profiles. Kind of reminds me of impersonators Jimmo, TTMXMP - Mr¸ ┬╦ and i (& likely more ppl in this S.F.O. group) have. Maybe i'm just a bit over-cautious now with one Dutch forum lately spammed every day multiple times a day with redirecting scams.

I have not seen this before but i'll be on the look-out.