I have...

Occasional messages from my trader friends hijacked accounts for something similar and this has been going on for 2+ months

What is this scam:
Hijackers impersonate and go through the steam friend list of the compromised account, asking other users to "help vote" or similar stories, but basically it's to access a fake website in order to grab your steam login details.

  • Always login from steam's website, if you are logged in Steam on the browser, legit third party websites will not ask you for the login details again.

If you are contacted by someone (friend or trade acquaintance) asking you to go to a suspicious link/login
It is possible that the owner of the account is a victim themselves, you can help by leaving them a message on SG or ST to let them know what happened.

  • To find the user on either SG or ST, you may need to find their steamID, if you can't grab their steamID directly, look up their nickname on websites like https://steamrep.com/ or https://barter.vg/u/
    (barter user's profile page comes with links to their ST aswell), once you have the steam ID, put this in the address bar https://www.steamgifts.com/go/user/<Steam ID here> or just the "user search bar" on ST.

If you think your account may have been compromised
check for unusual activities
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/SteamLoginHistory
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata/ThirdPartyLogins

  1. Change your password
  2. Refresh your API https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey
  3. Deauthorize all logged in devices https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
  4. Perhaps run a virus check for keyloggers etc.

Discussion threads about this
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/fbpD1/psa-example-of-phishing-attempts-user-got-account-back

3 years ago*

Hey just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to post this.
I feel better knowing I was turning down a scammer and not my actual steam chat buddy.

3 years ago
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I'm glad you could avoid disaster!

I hope your buddy was able to recover their account without many issues - I didn't expect this thing to still be ongoing 2 months after I fell for it myself 2 months prior when it was rampant...but I had a few others in the trade circle message me with the same speech to this day - so I finally decided that a warning here may be warranted.

3 years ago
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Thanks for the reply.

Q: Are you manually bumping this post?

In case you weren't aware, the EGST plugin can auto-bump your trade posts, which would be useful for keeping a post like this in front of users.

Thanks again and good luck out there!

3 years ago
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I indeed didn't know of this, thank you for the tip - I will check it out and set it up tomorrow!

3 years ago
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Such a handy thread, thanks bud!

3 years ago
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Thanks for the warning in Barter.

3 years ago
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Oh hey, I'm glad you saw the message :)

3 years ago
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hello, it's offtopic but, i saw your comment here, do you still have my time at portia by any chance? and if so, can you paste what region lock it has (from german)?

3 years ago
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Heya, I don't have it anymore :) I generated a key for a family member awhile back, sorry I can't help!

3 years ago
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Closed 3 years ago.