So... I finally got my first "Hi my friend has a trade for you link" guy add me. So I blocked and deleted him but he keeps messaging me regardless. It shows up on my Steam as me having an offline message to read. So I click on it (because I have no way of knowing who it's from) and it says something along the lines of how I've blocked communication from this person and how I have to unblock in order to read the message. But if I choose not to look at it then the notification is STILL THERE. A perpetual "1" on the stupid message thing. So I HAVE to unblock him, look at the message, then block him again. But he keeps messaging me and I'm getting sick of doing that. Any way to stop this? I thought the point of blocking someone was to NOT get messages from them period.

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Had similar issue, opening it in browser instead of Steam helped.

But then it was only one message, I never blocked that bot and bot never messaged me again, so not sure if that will help...

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Make sure you've closed the chat window before clicking on it again, if it repeatedly does not work, restart Steam. That's helped for me with unread message notifications in the past.

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Maybe you blocked him but not removed from friends? It's not done automatically.

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No, I definitely removed from friends list too.

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Something is up. You can only PM people on your friends list.

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Wrong.

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How so? Please explain how you would send a PM to someone who's not on your friends list.

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You do not need to be friends to send messages to each other - enough to be in the same group.

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I can not send a PM to anyone in my groups that isn't in friends list, I just tried.

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you can do that in the group chat panel

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There you have it then.

There are no people in group chats.

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Yeah, if his chat window is still open, he can message regardless...

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This sucks :/ Contact support ?

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And wait for months ^^ Or get a sh**tty copy-pasted message.

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Well there's not many options here lol

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Human sacrifice of curse...

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Pending messages (along with their notifications) get deleted automatically after a month, so you could just be patient and wait till they go away naturally. Hoping that he won't pm you further ahah

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unblock ,add him back and block again..it works for me :>3

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I did this last night so we'll have to see if it works... fingers crossed.

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Just a general suggestion:

If you aren't activly trading or seek attention through your profile page. Put it on private and let only your friends see your page.
It doesn't help against the hacking/scamming itself but it does lower your chance of becoming a target. Because if people/bots don't see what you have or if you are even active they don't know if its even worth the effort (and might move on to another target).

But it does require you to put it on public once a week for 5 secs to sync your profile here ^^

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You can try making your profile private and changing your community id url (and username) temporarily to something else, that way he can't find you.

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hmm idk exactly how it might show up for you, but whenever the same thing happens with a comment, a small line of text shows up in the notifications page that says to click here if you want everything marked as "read"

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Closed 9 years ago by Sinovera.