Ayeup mate, I had the message sent to me from your account but sent Steam a report that your account had been hijacked. Hope you get it back quickly.
Sending a report to support might be best way to get in touch with them.
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I can't find where it is but it's somewhere here https://help.steampowered.com
Edit: Did you or did the idiot who hacked your account remove me?
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This should have the relevant info you need.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2347-QDFN-4366
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/4rSWQ/staff-psa-steam-accounts-being-phished-sg-accounts-vulnerable is a useful thread for you to look at too.
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That's how the Steam support site numbers their articles. If you open any other article it will have "ref=" in the address too.
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I noticed that the other links have that too, but not before posting that comment. Sorry :)
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I think its the way steam categorises their articles and pages. Nothing sinister I promise :)
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I recieved that message from "you" earlier today as well. Immediatelly thought that it looked kind of shady but I don't know you all that well so wasn't sure if it was you sending the link or not. Thanks for letting us know and best of luck getting your acc back!
Edit: Reported your acc as stolen, hopefully it helps. Also, found this link, I don't think it will work for you though :(
https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithAccountStolen
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Create an steam account open support ..contact supports
write all informations about your account such as cd keys (retail) date of creation . Credit card number . first email used . say that your account hijacked by this site . you logged in and instead of logging in your email and phone number changed atoumatically via text message or email
if your informations are correct steam will change the password and email to the first email youve created your steam account with
so since he has no access to those informations steam will give you .your account dont worry happend to me once
but account owner always gets the account cause those sites have no information at all . its simple
edit : now steam may ask some questions beside what youve provided be sure to answer correctly
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the absolute best way to avoid these phishing scams is to never, ever log in to these kinds of websites with your steam account, unless you fully 100% trust the website. if you go straight to www.steamcommunity.com and log in there, you won't have to enter your information on those websites - if they're legit, of course. instead, it will show you're already logged in, and will just give you a single button to click that will then log you in to whatever website you're on - no typing in credentials necessary.
also, change your steam password, and it wouldn't be a bad idea to change your password for other important sites as well. but most important - use two-factor authorization on any website that has it. steam uses steam guard.
i hope you get your account back. it sucks that people fall for these things because that means it still profitable for the scammer. i checked out this website in particular though and i gotta say it is pretty convincing if you aren't being cautious. it seems they have actual people sending these messages and not bots so it's pretty understandable to have your guard down.
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the absolute best way to avoid these phishing scams is to never, ever log in to these kinds of websites with your steam account, unless you fully 100% trust the website.
Exactly. It's quite alarming how easily will people give away their account info to any random website that asks for it. Never EVER use your Steam account to log in websites you don't know!
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Yeah for sure, it's a mix of people sending out the messages, and also the fact that it is sent by someone on your friends list. This means that your guard may already be down a little bit since you're like 'oh yeah I know this person'.
Always better to stay safe, and, as you have already mentioned, if you're signed in to steam through the steamcommunity website, legitemate websites will already be able to see that (if they use Valve's API), meaning you will not have to re-input your credentials.
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I remember I've bookmarked a very helpful thread made by Khayta here on SG - it might help you too.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/ywKiZ/how-to-lock-your-steam-account-from-hackers
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I knew it! I saw those messages few days ago on another post(but I can't find it now). So, I know what's going on. That's not your fault.
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Crap i clicked on it and i am always careful. :x got a blank page though.
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you should be fine if you just clicked on the link. I think those websites usually rely on the user trying to 'sign in to steam' through said website, but instead of the official steam sign in page, you get redirected to a fake steam signin page, which, obviously gets your username, password, and steam verification code.
So as long as you didn't input any credentials you should be ok. But obviously better to try not to click those links at all, maybe a malware scan of your computer may be worth though just to be safe.
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yeah, sometimes i enter those websites to see, how better they got and sometimes i try to login with fake login with rude message :D
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Thanks, no i would never have entered my credentials, i got malwarebytes and kaspersky i think they blocked it out.
Although offcourse you had sites and virus that would leave stuff behind on your pc, anyway just restored a backup to be safe anyway. But with all these browsers, onedrive and other programs that sync these days you never know what you might bring back again.
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Yeah I also reported your account as 'hijacked' to steam support after recieving the messages on Steam. The best thing you can do is reach out to steam support.
Here is the link for the specific article: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2347-QDFN-4366
Best of luck with account recovery, I hope you can get your account back ASAP!
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Do you use Steams authenthicator for logins via the phone?
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that's too bad... you could have used authenticator on your pc, but without mobile phone to receive sms it's impossible. Stupid steam rules.
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I encourage getting steam guard, it provides some added safety in case something happens again.
The trouble is, if it's not your own phone, it might be inconvenient sometimes to get the steam guard code from your father. Still, better than losing access to the account among other things.
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Not an expert, but as a first glance, it's easier to lose access to your email than it is of your mobile. If you don't have or its inconvenient to have a mobile, than the email is better than nothing as long as you dont have it hacked aswell.
For mobile, you install the steam app on it and login from there, dont remember the process but it was simple to follow the instructions.
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Well, I'll repeat myself: it is safe to login with steam anywhere, but one should never enter steam credential in any pop-ups on third-party sites. If "steam" requires your password - open another tab in browser, open steam by hands, and if you are indeed not logged in - login on this new tab that you opened yourself, and then return to third-party site and try again. If anything goes wrong (you are logged in on steam but pop-up still asks for login/pass - it's 100% scam.
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That is what i thought when i got message from justseedy. I trust him but when i clicked his link it took me to that site and when i tried to sign up pop-up window appeared wanting my steam credentials. I knew something is fishy there because im always logged in on steam in my browser so i said no-no.
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Also, as of now - if you still have access to account - just change password and remove/change api key, and you'll be safe. If you don't have access to account anymore (which is probably the case) - only steam support can help you, good luck with this. I must say support is pretty friendly and helpful, so I hope you will get your account back soon.
Also, if by any chance you use the same password on any other services - make sure to change password there ASAP.
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Apart from password - remove (or create new) API key here https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey (if it's there of course).
You can also go to https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage and press "Deauthorize all other devices". AFAIK it's not needed if you changed password, but it won't hurt, right?
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It's not some kind of secret, if you can help someone - just do it
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I didn't get a message from your account. I hope you get your account back soon.
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i received the message too but i check didnt replied and checked your profile, already there were messages from other people there, hope you get it working again without issues.
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i knew your account was compromised so i asked him a simple question to answer, in order to verify if it was you and he failed.. lmao
here's what happened - https://imgur.com/a/GqJXNB6
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haha i also got a message frpm someone to vote for him for tornament... i blocked him instantly..now i see it was a hijack
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Don't forget to report these scam sites to google and mozilla!
www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/fraud-report/
safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?tpl=mozilla&url=
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Hello guys someone also messaged me about that CSGO vote crap get one key,, should I post his name here for others to be wary? Good thing I was able to read this before that user messaged me or else I was fooled too...
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Can you next time ask me to vote for something interesting like hottest catgirl or something?
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Haha I nearly fell for it...
Good thing I was like... 'hol up, I don't actually need to do it, so I went ahead and lied to the scammer that I did it (voting for his imaginary friend or smth can't remember)
I actually thought that was you who sent me the message since I wasn't online in SG as frequently anymore.
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Got the same message from mischievouspanda today, he is been hacked too.
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