That's an ancient scam type, before it was mainly CS:GO because they were after the insanely priced pixel knives those people have.
But no worries, Steam support has been doing a great job recently of solving these problems in a reasonable timeframe.
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Ouch, I'm sorry for that man :/ Hopefully it's all resolved post haste! Also, make sure that you scrub that password from every account you've made if you use the same password elsewhere!
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This is just a regular phishing. I hope you'll be able to recover your account. And be more careful next time!
That reminds me that people who don't use mobile authentication, but use mail one instead, are actually more protected, because steam will never ask for mail code twice on the same pc+browser, so even if phishing site will try to ask for it, it will look suspicious as hell. On the other hand, people got used to enter mobile codes every time, so of course they suspect nothing. Sadly Valve pushes users pretty hard to use mobile authentication, forcing a lot of restrictions otherwise. That's sad.
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If I'm right - even cd keys are proof of ownership - so you can send some of your past wins on steamgifts to steam support :)
Also they are quite fast.
If you are afraid that whoever hijacked your account may also bring harm to your steamgifts account - you can ask support for suspension.
Good luck! And be more careful next time :)
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Cheers to you for using a more accurate term in hijacked, instead of the usual and lazy "hacked"!
Glad you're getting it sorted out. Hopefully support is helpful like the bank was when I had a credit card copied and duplicated across multiple cities.
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Yeah, it's fairly messed up. Especially since it was clearly from one of the few local businesses I had the card swiped at, and not from online use.
Good thing is, the issuing bank typically has rules that cover your ass, so long as you tell them what's happening asap.
Did take multiple time consuming calls, often for the same charge, to get them to refund me all the stuff that was fraud and not me.
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Glad everything got resolved and thanks for sharing your story ◉‿◉
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Woohoo! I received a response back from someone through Steam support earlier this morning, only after about 4 hours later (that has to be some kind of record!). I have regained access to my account! 🎊🥳🎊
I am missing a bunch of my Rocket League items, now, though, which is a bummer.. I'm guessing that some of them must have been quite valuable. I'm working on trying to get some help from Psyonix support, so hopefully that goes well!
To celebrate getting my Steam situation sorted out, though, I am adding a few giveaways!
Borderlands
Dead Rising 2
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You
Thanks for reading, if you did. And be careful...
Original Message
Well, I am not the most social person ever, and I haven't been very talkative here on Steamgifts (or anywhere) over the years that I've been here (You can ignore the comment count, it's very, very bloated from all of the 'Thanks!' related comments, back from when blacklists were new and it was pretty much required to say it on everything you entered! =P). I've only ever even created one discussion on the forums before, way back in 2013!
But, I felt that I needed to create another discussion, mostly as a warning to others, and maybe also as a way to try to vent my frustration over being a fool, while I'm still logged in here on Steamgifts..
Now, I don't follow Rocket League or any official/unofficial tournament things that are going on, but I do play it and love the game. I know that tournaments and such happen, and I have wanted to get into them.
But, I had just gotten my (Steam Guard protected) Steam account hijacked earlier, after receiving a message from a Rocket League friend on Steam (Who I don't blame, as they were, no doubt, hijacked in the same way). They sent a message to me asking for help, and that they needed someone quickly to substitute in for some kind of 2v2 Rocket League tournament. Not wanting to let them down, and, honestly, feeling a bit great that they chose me as a fill in for someone that couldn't make it (and I know we had played well together before), I felt that I had to hop on and help them out.
So, they sent me a link to a site, (that, in no way gives any reason to suspect anything and even looks just like the real one does, and the address didn't even seem fishy (I haven't been to the legit site before, but I knew of it)) and, being in a hurry so I don't let down this person by making him miss his match, I went to go register, noticed that, for some reason, the autofill did not add in my steam info, and since I was in a hurry to help, I really thought nothing of it.. (I suppose my brain was like; "I haven't been here before, so I need to put my Steam info in to save it here" kind of thing..) So, I typed in my information to login with Steam, got a Steam Guard pop up right after, entered in a Steam Guard code, aannnd it didn't work.. I thought I must have typed it in wrong, tried again, and same thing.. Did it one more time, just to be sure, and still, nothing... Then, it hit me.. That I just got screwed, majorly....
I just feel like a total idiot for falling for it.. I really am always careful with everything, and none of it really had anything about it that seemed wrong, you know? I've been sitting here, freaked out and shaking and pissed and paranoid since it happened. I spent 7 hours putting together a support ticket, looking for anything that I could find to show proof of ownership. Now, I just have to wait around for support for who knows how long, and hope like hell that I can get my account back alright.. I've already got enough crap that I'm dealing with, I certainly don't need to lose my Steam account with over 2,000 games on it.. Ugh.....
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Anyway, for anyone who owns Rocket League, be careful of any friends that may have gotten themselves hijacked. Be on the look out for any messages mentioning to join a tournament/team, or this (or simliar) links: eslleague (dot) net (Please, do not go to this).
Here is a reddit post I found with people talking about it:
(https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/amvkj8/beware_the_esl_tourney_scam/)
Sorry about the rant.. It's not something that I normally do. =\ I'm also usually not this stupid.
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