Friendly reminder to everyone that there is a surge of malicious actors attempting to hijack Steam accounts through the method used below. Recently, I received a few reports of accounts belonging fellow TAW members having been hijacked. They have been notified appropriately.
If you experience this type of engagement, the attacker will have compromised your friend's account and is reaching out to everyone on their friends list in the same way. The attacker gains access to your account by claiming they're a "Steam Admin" and tricking you into providing your password and Steamguard code, if enabled.
A Steam/Valve administrator/employee/moderator will never add you as a friend to talk about any of the following things. If Valve needs to talk to you about something they will contact you through an account alert.
A Valve employee will always have a Valve Employee Steam profile badge and a Steam moderator will always have a Steam Community Moderator Steam profile badge.
Someone representing Valve or Steam will never ask you for your items or account credentials, this includes your log-in name and authenticator codes. Do not share them with anyone.
What to do if your or your friend's account has been hijacked:
How to keep your Steam account (and any other account) safe:
PS: A "Middleman" isn't a real thing either, if anyone suggests one for trade, you're most likely about to be scammed. Once you've traded away your items, they're gone.
Stay safe out there!
MGN. Arianni
Digital Security Division Commander
Thanks for the heads up, will keep an eye out!
Thanks for the head's up Ari. I'll keep an eye out on my account.
Thanks Ari for the info.
Nicely Done!
Thanks Arianni for this blog it helped me.
Oh yeah let everyone know I just got my main account recovered today because I had a friend help me how to recover my account so if anyone need help recovering accounts I do have a friend that will help out and talk and chat with you he use discord but I could ask my friend if he want join our clan and join team speak with us.
from GhostJJman
thanks Arianni and great blog
by GhostJJman
Great PSA, Also be wary of variants of this scam. hijackers seem to change the reason they want you to add this account from time to time. I know one of the variants is duped items and i can imagine there are many more variants. Just wanted to put that out there to.
Can anyone tell someone that I would not steal accounts because in year of 2009 and 2019 I was on my account and I would not have a hacking system to steal people account please help me tell this person about this because person thinks I did it is wrong right because you all know me when I was in the clan when I was playing GRP and warface right.
From GhostJJman
Thanks for the heads up!
thanks everyone I finally got my account back and I got it all secured and I just unblocked everyone hacker blocked and re add friends that got unfriened
GhostJJman