Yo

Yep, you read that right. I was unfortunately hacked and all of my valuable items were taken away by some hacking scammer.

Here is the story:

I was on Garry's Mod playing online when someone suddenly messaged me. It was a person that I knew for 2 years so I decided to reply. It was all going normal until he said he wanted to give me $150 in steam wallet funds. It looked legit as he sent me the PayPal screenshot of him doing it. So my dumbass side said, "Hey, maybe it's legit", but my gut was telling me, "hell nah bruh, this ♥♥♥♥ fake". I did the unthinkable and went with my dumbass side. We exchanged discords and we called each other. He was like, "Oh I just need your username so I can send the money". So once again, I went with my dumbass side. Then he asked for the steam guard code. I thought, "wait why does he need the code?", and my gut was telling me, "I'm tellin u bruh, this ♥♥♥♥ fake", but my dumbass side told me, "no man, it's real", so again, I went with my dumbass side. It was going well until he screenshared and I saw him changing the password to my account. Then he said, "What matters more, your account or your items?". And then I finally saw it, he had my account hostage so he can force me to give him my items. Unfortunately, I couldn't do anything other than give him items so that I wouldn't get hacked. Then, he took it a step far and told me to buy him 20 keys. It turns out, he hacked one of my friends and went after me next.

I finally got pissed off and ended the call, unfriending the guy I knew for 2 years, and blocking him, along with the guy who hacked him. Unfortunately, this didn't work as he tried to change the password and email to my account. But, I was able to stop him from doing it as I was logged in at the time he was changing stuff. This resulted in a full-on account war which then, Steam Support had to intervene and gave my account a community ban so that the hacker or me couldn't battle any longer. Luckily, i was able to change the password and log into my account but the damage was already done. So I contacted Steam Support with the Proof of Ownership form and it was approved, with them lifting the ban and letting me play online again. The items that got taken away however, cannot be returned as the restoration policy changed.

Long story short, I got hacked and had an account war, with me winning but it leaving a scar on my account that can never heal.