Just posting this in hopes that none of you follow my stupidity. I was in a faceit match and met a guy who seemed pretty cool. We teamed up, and while we “waited on his friends”, he convinced me to join one of the hubs on faceit to play a different game mode. Now, I’ve only had faceit a week, so I’m not sure how everything works, but he sent me a link through the faceit website that asked me to log into steam. I thought it was a bit fishy at first, but noticed it was directly through the faceit website and on the app, so I figured it was legit and I clicked the link and scanned the QR to connect my account. Less than 30 minutes later my steam username turned into a bunch of numbers, there was an alert that my account was suspended because of violating terms, and I had someone random message me on steam. This person claimed to be a valve employee and told me that I had 24 hours to transfer skins to a friend or myself on another account if I wanted to be able to retain them. I sent the trade offer (worth ~$500) to my second account. I logged into my second account and somehow the trade was not there. I logged back into my main account and looked at the trade history, and instead of going to my second account, it went to some level 1 random account that’s not in my friends list. I’m not sure how I was stupid enough to fall for all of this, but unfortunately I did. I’m also not sure how this works in terms of gaining access to my account, but now I’m out of pretty much all of my valuable skins. I submitted a ticket to steam support and identified the profile who stole them. I also submitted a ticket on faceit for the same reason. While I figure that I’m love you and will learn a really hard lesson here, I’m keeping my fingers crossed valve can do something about this. Anyway, don’t ever, ever click on a link or think anyone you meet on CS is your friend or you’ll end up a skinless love you like me. # #/Tom_Foolery2 # .
Do not trust any user and try to do your transactions with a middleman to be safe There can be many scammers on the sites And you should be very careful in these cases
