If a steam user messages you to "vote for their Facit/ESEA team" immediately remove and block that individual. When you click the link they send you, it will send you to a third party website. From there you will be asked to sign into your steam. Upon doing this, your account will be compromised. I am not sure of the trojan/rat that is placed on the computer or if the email/steam guard gets compromised but you will most likely lose your items like my friend did. If this happens and it is the first time you get scammed. Then submit a support ticket and steam support should ideally be able to help return the items to you. Although, this outcome is not 100% certain.


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.

There's no such thing as appealing a pending or false report or ban.

There's no such thing as a pending ban.

There's no such thing as a pending report.

There's no such thing as a false report.

There's no such thing as item verification or item scanning.

There's no such thing as a Certificate of Eligibility.

There's no such thing as an accidental report, and if someone truly did accidentally report you, Valve will see that the report is not valid and nothing will happen.

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.

Someone's account age, profile level, high amount of friends, or high amount of comments on a profile is NOT a way to verify someone's legitimacy. Scammers purchase old accounts, it costs a few dollars to get a high profile level, friends can be farmed through malicious groups and comments can also be farmed or bought.

You cannot trade Steam wallet funds or CD-keys via Steam, and there's no way for it to be automatically added to your account when a trade is completed.

CD and Wallet codes can be purchased with stolen credit cards or other malicious methods. If this has happened with a CD or Wallet code you've redeemed your account is at high risk of being locked for fraudulence, as such it is never recommended you trade for CD or Wallet keys, and it is never recommended to purchase anything from unauthorized re-sellers like the scam sites ♥♥♥ or Kinguin.


One of the most common ways for account hijackers to get access to your account is by creating a fake page and tricking their victims into believing it is the real website. The URL and the site itself will usually look very similar to the original, e.g: steamco mn unity, steamcomun ii ty or st ae mcommunity.

Hackers will usually spread these fake links via automated bots or already hijacked accounts which either add you or just comment the fake links. The chance of receiving these messages increases when using trading sites like TF2Backpack, CSGOLoungue and DOTA2Lounge.

Such a message could for example look like this:

[username]: Hi, my friend somehow can't add you as a friend. He always receives an error message, but he wants to trade with you. Can you please add him: steamscommuntiy.com/id/scammerusername/

The easiest way to never fall for a phishing scam (especially if you're unsure if the login page is legit) to use a simply trick:

Visit the official Steam Community page first and log in as usual. Now tell the other page to log in via Steam. If the site is legit, it will now show you as already logged in. If it asks you to enter your credentials, it is a phishing scam and you should immediately close the site.

Valve operates the following websites for Steam. If you are prompted with a login page, the first part of the URL within the browser will always be one of the following domains:

https://steamproxy.net
https://steampowered.com
https://steamproxy.net/steamstore
https://steamproxy.net/steamhelp
They will also show a padlock in the URL bar, which stands for a working SSL certification (from "Valve Corporation (US)).