IMPORTANT: STEAM SCAMMERS

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Topic on Scammers:

PLEASE DO NOT TRADE WITH ANYONE WHO CLAIMS THAT THEY ARE STEAM STAFF AND THAT THEY WANT TO CHECK YOUR ITEMS FOR DUPLICATES VIA TRADING AND THAT THEY WILL BAN OR DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT YOU IF YOU DO NOT COOPERATE.

ITS FAKE.

ITS ALL SO FAKE.

Tonight I got into a conversation with user: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Pybro-The-Pyro/
and he claimed that he was checking for duplicate items. He mentioned that he was a “Community Admin for Steam” and if I do not appeal or cooperate he’ll delete my account. He sent this steam guide to give clarification on his scamming process and how he’ll do it: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1446497279#2636043

 
I’ve stalled the conversation enough to receive this trade offer to this account here: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198839459528 (Check name other tags, “Item Database Program™”)

At this point I’ve googled and done My Research on this and according to Steam Rep: https://forums.steamrep.com/pages/about-item-checking-scam/
The threat is a scam. Brilliant threat. It scares you into thinking that you’ll lose everything. Fear is a powerful tool to get people to do what you want them to do-like giving them your items such as my aussies and unusuals my friends gifted to me for my birthday…. Thankfully I was clever enough to not trade my items to them so, the user, Pybro The Pyro started “Banning my account” while playing a non-steam game called ‘Banning “User ID” –%’

He failed to complete his banning process and he got fed up and blocked me. C:

I AM ASKING FOR YOU TO SPREAD THIS INFORMATION BECAUSE USERS LIKE THESE ARE SCAMMING YOU OF YOUR ITEMS. I DIDN’T FALL VICTIM, BUT I DON’T WANT YOU TO END UP IN THE SAME PLACE TOO. SO IF SOMEONE TELLS YOU THEIR STEAM STAFF AND THEY WANT TO TRADE TO CHECK YOUR ITEMS. SAY. NO. TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT TO PROVE INNOCENCE AND LET THEM THREATEN YOU. BLOCK THEM. REPORT THEM.

DON’T FALL FOR THEIR THREATS.

DO NOT TRADE. THIS IS NOT HOW STEAM STAFF WORK.

Thank you and please be safe and sleep with full inventories my fellow players.

Take note of the language used by the “Steam Staff-member”. Poor grammar and spelling all around, which is generally not how professional community managers/moderators present themselves. Remember that these folks are representatives of a corporation, and will always act accordingly. 

Add to this the use of terms like “ban”, which is almost unheard of in today’s formal vernacular, instead of something like “account suspension”, which is far more commonly used now-a-days (though I will admit, this is not always the case).

Additionally, if action does need to be taken against your account, for any reason, online community staff certainly doesn’t need you to volunteer anything to them for the purposes of verifying authenticity. I guarantee you, they have 100% access to check anything and everything they could possibly need. If they don’t have access to check something on their own, then it’s not their job to be checking it.

Please note, everything stated above is more or less true for ALL ONLINE COMMUNITIES.

Finally, and I could only get basic verification for this, Valve Employees will almost never contact you through the Steam app, opting for email instead, and also display a badge on their profiles.

Thank you for the clarification and more information!

Tell them to email you on the account you have your steam registered to

It’s not visible on your profile and only a valve employee would have access to it