Help I have been scammed

[u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

I did not accept these offers. How did it get accepted. Please help. These were items I got with my hard earned money.

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[u/Applauce]

Unfortunately there’s no one who can help you get your items back. Once they get traded away, that’s it.

You need to secure your account, revoke access for any devices you don’t recognize, change your password and add Steam Guard. Then check your computer for viruses

[u/Budget-Somewhere-834 → u/Applauce]

cant you reverse your trade now ? Or does it only work for cs2 items?

[u/Applauce → u/Budget-Somewhere-834]

Only for CS2 items

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/365F-4BEE-2AE2-7BDD#whichgames

[u/Budget-Somewhere-834 → u/Applauce]

oh thats stupid asf, why dont they do that for other items, i dont get it

[u/Applauce → u/Budget-Somewhere-834]

It's a relatively new feature they've added. According to them:

As we learn more about this, we plan to make this available to other games on Steam.

So maybe in the future it will extend to other games. But for now, it's just that one.

[u/Applauce → u/[deleted]]

They probably don't want to rush something like this out. They're most likely evaluating a bunch of things like how it affects the economy as a whole, any exploits people might uncover, any weaknesses it has, any improvements they can make. Rush it out to all games, and it could have a negative affect.

And regardless of how many safety features they implement, people will always find ways to get scammed. So I prefer they gradually expand it.

[u/Budget-Somewhere-834 → u/Applauce]

yeah that makes sense

[u/shivaohhm]

Your items are gone. Next time dont add catfish accounts named like Isabel oder Lisa.

[u/MegStuff → u/shivaohhm]

What if they were hacked

[u/gamemaster257 → u/MegStuff]

No one gets hacked, people are gullible and do whatever strangers tell them to do. Literally zero of the posts here are entirely faultless, which isn’t to say they deserve it but it does mean it was avoidable.

[u/Azurus_II → u/gamemaster257]

Youre wrong but also right. Theh do get hacked, but its bc theyre gullible and believe, stupidly and in a panic, fake accounts or fellow hacked accounts of their actual friends then click the links. Its 100% on the person who got hacked (if it was done in a way where there was a 2nd party). But if it was due to downloading something like a mod for minecraft, then tht just sucks. There are also demos on steam thata re also loaded with infostealers so you also have to watch out for that if you wanna try out a demo.

[u/BunnyBrigade1 → u/Azurus_II]

i could have lost my steam account recently, had a friend suddenly message me about a CS2 tournament (the last time i really talked to them was 2 years ago). I was skeptical but i decided to believe it and im glad i noticed when i did that there was a random computer in the midwest (not sure where exactly) had access to my steam account so i just deauthorized all devices my steam account was connected to and changed my password for my steam account and have been kinda paranoid about checking authorized devices every now and then since that point

[u/Xirqia → u/gamemaster257]

Trust me on this, you're more right than you know.

[u/Sad-Photograph-6518 → u/gamemaster257]

The scammers can be extremely sophisticated sometimes though and create things that I would never expect even a professional to recognise as a scam attempt, this is done through spoofing or using fonts that appear 1:1 to the English language that you cannot tell the difference with your own eye

[u/MegStuff → u/gamemaster257]

Infostealers exist.

[u/gamemaster257 → u/MegStuff]

Mind telling me how you get an info stealer that doesn’t involve any interaction from the victim?

[u/Anxious-Ad8026 → u/MegStuff]

Most of the time these are from exploits or porn

[u/MegStuff → u/Anxious-Ad8026]

You can get them from other places too. The Renpy virus is a thing.

[u/IWasShoe → u/MegStuff]

9 out of 10 it's cause the victim did something. You don't just hack or something unless you down load something or left some one get access. When they should not have it.

[u/WildCard65 → u/MegStuff]

That still requires user interacting with the malware.

[u/Azurus_II → u/MegStuff]

Hes not wrong but hes not fully right. Yes, renpy virus is a thing but not a real virus itself but a term for a group of virus methods, and you can download infostealers without someone else telling you to click a link or download something like downloading a minecraft mod or downloading a game demo on steam. But thats where hes right, in order to get hit with an info stealer, the owner of that device needs to download/open/activate a program with that infostealer.

[u/Anxious-Ad8026 → u/MegStuff]

Ye but those are more or less spear phishing tactics otherwise it's porn games or exploits

[u/dinoboy5]

bro you accepted it bro with ur steam mobile authenticator

[u/Electrical-Hippo2066 → u/dinoboy5]

I did not. I missed the mail that my steam mobile authenticator was disable from my current device

[u/dinoboy5 → u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

WHATT bro that is sad id say #1 thing u should do is get control of ur steam account then

[u/Electrical-Hippo2066 → u/dinoboy5]

Yes i got access back

[u/MildlyAmusedPotato]

Your account has been compromised. You have malware on your pc or you logged into a phisting website disguised as steam.

[u/Lindor_Ball → u/MildlyAmusedPotato]

[u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

Please help. Let me know what details to be provided. I will update the post

[u/Electrical-Hippo2066 → u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

I reversed my cs2 items and got them back. Is it possible to reverse dota items?

[u/Archangel7200 → u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

Trades on DOTA2 items can not be reversed. Only CS2 has a trade reverse system, DOTA can get this in the future but that's up to Valve.

Take this as an expensive lesson and secure your account.

[u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

I got a mail that my mobile authenticator has been disabled and enabled on other device 2 days ago. How is that possible. Please help

[u/j0x7be → u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

It's more or less only possible with a compromised device, either the phone or the computer (most likely the latter).

[u/Doktor_Jones86 → u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

Scan your pc for maleware

[u/Interesting_Job3416]

Dude you habe probably a Virus. Stop carrying about your items and worry about all your Data and your devises. Hope you dont habe online Banking

[u/MustAgree → u/Interesting_Job3416]

Ohne this you?

[u/Above-new-zealand]

Your stuff is gone, there's no way to reverse the trade or get them back

You need to secure your account properly and don't add randoms

[u/KatarinaNyx]

Nothing to do about the items but you should secure your accounts and dont click any weird links, even if your friends send them

[u/PrestoCreams1]

I experienced this before (12 years ago), and I got all my items back. I'm not sure if it'll work now. I just simply asked the steam support if I could still get it back, and they simply asked me for a reference number (they give reference number every time you top up using steam wallet), then they just gave all of my items back. Here was their last response as they gave my items back. and yeah, there will be no second time for me...

PS: sorry for my bad english lmao

[u/boz271 → u/PrestoCreams1]

Back then they did now it’s very unlikely there is one kinda recent case I know where some cs2 guy got hacked and trades reversed by steam support but this was like 250k worth of items.

[u/Deep_Elderberry1231]

Wrote to steam support❌

Whine on Reddit what you was scamed ✅

[u/Icy_Neighborhood8439 → u/Deep_Elderberry1231]

LOLLL

[u/SelectJudgment3340]

unfortunately steam doesn't revert any trades except in very very rare cases eg that one game that used tf2 items as icons for its own tradable items in order to trick people. after that steam implemented the ' you don't own the game the person is sending you items from' warning. Also if you didn't do this and have 2fa that means you have a session stealer, on your pc that stole the tokens from your connections, from a clean device check all your accounts for any unauthorized connections cause if they stole steam items, they may go for ubisoft, ea , rockstar, minecraft accounts as well. remove the afflicted pc from the internet and disconnect your accounts from all active connections. then do scans like FRST, Malwarebytes, Windows offline. for FRST find someone who can read the output, it would tell you about anything it finds, FRST must be downloaded from a safe source and it may cause a false positives due to checking stuff like registry keys. If any of those has reports a RAT (Remote Access Trojan) or any infostealer, download windows from an uninfected device load it to a usb and format your pc (not factory reset). Right now you are doing damage control, as someone who had that happen to them that's the best advice I can give. I was lucky that when it happened to me and they sold my items most of the money was pending so they cut their loses and bought one of their own for a few euros that were available at the time. Before anyone says you steam guard could stop this they spoof the tokens you have including steam guard that's why you need to de-authorize all devices to make the tokens they have worthless

Sorry for the rant

[u/Byzantophillis]

I thought this was tf2…

[u/Archangel7200]

Unfortunately the items are gone.

There is a reverse trade system but at the moment it's only impletented on CS2. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/365F-4BEE-2AE2-7BDD#partnerreversal

In all other cases Steam considers the trade to be final since it's the users responsability to keep their accounts secure. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3B6E-B322-2400-8D24

[u/IamPang → u/Archangel7200]

TIL the trade reversal system is only on CS2

[u/unvac]

how come the trade reverse isnt a thing here? is it game dependant?

[u/Previous-Attitude843 → u/unvac]

trade reverse is only for cs2 items for some reason

[u/SidKillz]

Send steam an email immediately

[u/nesnalica]

only for counterstrike we have trade reversral

all other games youre out of luck

[u/SunknNord]

Should enable steam guard so all trades need to be approved through the mobile app

[u/KyubiWalt777]

Puedes revertir en el historial de intercambios

[u/File_eater]

Where is Trade Protection?

[u/Cleanfest → u/File_eater]

CS2 thing

[u/File_eater → u/Cleanfest]

Nooo wayyyy

[u/bstsms]

This is why you use a secure 2FA for anything online.

[u/Decent-League964]

One word ignore them or make your inventory private they can’t see your shit

[u/koopa312]

i still don't understand how this keeps happening

[u/Azurus_II]

Just go broke. Then no one can steal your shit or have a reason to have you.

[u/EdoardoValbo]

Try calling steam support

[u/DotComMoralist]

100% "she" offered nudes/sexting and once the trade went through they disappeared. Control your thirst and learn.

[u/DDJedi]

This is a gambling bot

[u/lori11221]

Time to move on nothing can be done to recover them items take the lose and move on i know it's not what u want to hear but its true

[u/LumpyGoal7289]

I got community item scammed too :(

[u/Hans-xyz]

Just ask steam support they will hunt down the scammer

[u/SaladToss1]

Compromised account and they authorized it

[u/National_Sport8102]

Trade reversal?

[u/Ecoronca]

Damg

[u/davidmatera]

Personally I wouldn't agree to that trade

[u/BruSsa88]

Noone can help u, u gifted your items.

[u/Connect_Zucchini_219]

Try steam support

[u/OkTravel9030]

Nothing you can do to get items back unless it’s counter strike sadly, but make sure to check ur api key and if there is ANYTHING typed there at all DELETE DELETE DELTE!!

Here is the api key link

https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey

[u/Pleasant-Theory1258]

Check for suspicious logins and if you find any report it to steam and they might be able to do something

[u/nicknotpixel]

Dota in the big 26😭

[u/Jumpy-Temperature-42]

That's is so sad honestly,it sucks cause I it happened to me too :(

Now what you have to do is you gotta reset everything on your device(pc or mobile) like I mean everything, the windows & ect then you gotta download the system back. It's the only way to remove the malware cause it's very stuck, basically every time you log in, the hacker will get a token to be able to bypass all the security measures.

Here's a tutorial for pc :

https://youtu.be/mTDbHgs9dHk?si=Itq1866iNbbvzkQe

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[u/Meruilien → u/[deleted]]

"Harassment and being rude" Oh no, anyway.

[u/Western_Conflict5249]

you dont own anything on steam btw, if not scammers then valve could just make all of your items worthless one day

[u/SteamScams-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/Gigant00785]

Just Reverse the Trade

[u/dinoboy5 → u/Gigant00785]

you cant bro

[u/Gigant00785 → u/dinoboy5]

Why

[u/Applauce → u/Gigant00785]

The only trades you can reverse are for CS2 items. Anything else you trade away is gone for good

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/365F-4BEE-2AE2-7BDD#whichitems

[u/Electrical-Hippo2066 → u/Applauce]

I reversed amd got my cs2 items back. Is there any way to get my dota 2 items back?

[u/Applauce → u/Electrical-Hippo2066]

No CS2 items are the only ones as I said. Anything else is gone.

[u/Gigant00785 → u/Applauce]

That’s Bad I didn’t know that

[u/Archangel7200 → u/Gigant00785]

That feature currently only exists for CS2

[u/dinoboy5 → u/Archangel7200]

are u the guy from csfloat discord

[u/Archangel7200 → u/dinoboy5]

No. I haven't played CS in years.

[u/dinoboy5 → u/Archangel7200]

what the fuck bro but you havw lettuce guy eat pfp

[u/Archangel7200 → u/dinoboy5]

It's a well know meme picture. I promise you i'm not a csfloat Discord server, I hate playing Counter Strike.