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Been Scammed
5 years ago
Welp, there is always a first, isn't it?
To be honest, I always did feel that I am vulnerable to scams. As plenty of people have commented, in both online and in real life, I'm far too friendly and trusting for my good. I just don't like to disappoint people, and when I do, I go the extra mile to make up for it, whether if it's my fault or not. I'm more surprised and disappointed that it happened now, not earlier, and during my birthday time. That was part of the reason why I was so stressful last week.
To explain, last week (March 14th), I got a message on Steam from someone on my friend's list. I'll not be listing his name, not because I think he isn't on this scam (because part of me think he is), nor is it because I wish to protect him but because I am not allowed as under TOS. If you want to know who he is, contact me. But, back on topic, he told me that he accidentally flagged me for having duplicate items and that I should approach this person he linked me. In hindsight, I should not have followed this link and added this person and instead just wait until an anonymous person on Steam contacted me, but I was too friendly and trusting, and so I did what he said.
The 'admin' then contacted me as soon as I added him, and after I explained what my 'friend' told me, he asked me, under threats of my account being deleted, to trade my items with him (which failed and so my items are safe). As a word of advice, if anyone claiming to be an admin or mod on Steam tells you to do something or else your account will get locked or deleted, don't do what they said since it's very likely to be a scam. He then got me to log into a couple of off-site trading sites (which one of them might have hacked my account, so beware of either https://cs.money/ or https://tradeit.gg/ ). After some attempts at putting money at TradeIt failed, my account was locked with my password, email, and steam mobile authenticator changed. And thus, began my five days of hell.
Since then, the 'admin,' when we switched chats to Discord, have been getting me to buy Steam gift cards under increasing amounts with the promise that I'll get my account back along with all of my money and, like an idiot, I agreed. I'll say that this scam cost me thousands of dollars, which I regret immensely. I'm not sure if I can get my money back even if I do contact the bank and explained what happened since I did make the purchase, even if it was under fake pretense. It ended on March 18th, when I chose to investigate this 'admin' and found that I wasn't able to find his Steam account again (he gave me a password though my account was locked, but I can still go through my friend's list and go back through my chats on my phone). I also contacted my' friend,' who acted rather calm despite, from his point of view, my Steam account set to private. When I saw this, I brought some time by claiming that I was broke (I most likely lost half of my money) and that I need to wait until payday. Then I work together with Steam to regain my account back, which I just did this morning.
That does lead to the logical question: Will I be accepting donations since I lost thousands of dollars? The answer is: I'll let you be the judge. I don't wish to be begging for money, especially since we're dealing with a major global pandemic. But if you guys do want to donate me, even if it's just a dollar, I'll contact you.
Man, I'm an idiot.
To be honest, I always did feel that I am vulnerable to scams. As plenty of people have commented, in both online and in real life, I'm far too friendly and trusting for my good. I just don't like to disappoint people, and when I do, I go the extra mile to make up for it, whether if it's my fault or not. I'm more surprised and disappointed that it happened now, not earlier, and during my birthday time. That was part of the reason why I was so stressful last week.
To explain, last week (March 14th), I got a message on Steam from someone on my friend's list. I'll not be listing his name, not because I think he isn't on this scam (because part of me think he is), nor is it because I wish to protect him but because I am not allowed as under TOS. If you want to know who he is, contact me. But, back on topic, he told me that he accidentally flagged me for having duplicate items and that I should approach this person he linked me. In hindsight, I should not have followed this link and added this person and instead just wait until an anonymous person on Steam contacted me, but I was too friendly and trusting, and so I did what he said.
The 'admin' then contacted me as soon as I added him, and after I explained what my 'friend' told me, he asked me, under threats of my account being deleted, to trade my items with him (which failed and so my items are safe). As a word of advice, if anyone claiming to be an admin or mod on Steam tells you to do something or else your account will get locked or deleted, don't do what they said since it's very likely to be a scam. He then got me to log into a couple of off-site trading sites (which one of them might have hacked my account, so beware of either https://cs.money/ or https://tradeit.gg/ ). After some attempts at putting money at TradeIt failed, my account was locked with my password, email, and steam mobile authenticator changed. And thus, began my five days of hell.
Since then, the 'admin,' when we switched chats to Discord, have been getting me to buy Steam gift cards under increasing amounts with the promise that I'll get my account back along with all of my money and, like an idiot, I agreed. I'll say that this scam cost me thousands of dollars, which I regret immensely. I'm not sure if I can get my money back even if I do contact the bank and explained what happened since I did make the purchase, even if it was under fake pretense. It ended on March 18th, when I chose to investigate this 'admin' and found that I wasn't able to find his Steam account again (he gave me a password though my account was locked, but I can still go through my friend's list and go back through my chats on my phone). I also contacted my' friend,' who acted rather calm despite, from his point of view, my Steam account set to private. When I saw this, I brought some time by claiming that I was broke (I most likely lost half of my money) and that I need to wait until payday. Then I work together with Steam to regain my account back, which I just did this morning.
That does lead to the logical question: Will I be accepting donations since I lost thousands of dollars? The answer is: I'll let you be the judge. I don't wish to be begging for money, especially since we're dealing with a major global pandemic. But if you guys do want to donate me, even if it's just a dollar, I'll contact you.
Man, I'm an idiot.
If you don't do it because you are afraid of losing your account, do it as soon as they ask you for money, the real Steam doesn't have the right to do that anyway.
-Cordially, another foxball.