Steam Accounts:
Explanation: Steam accounts sold on the black market are often phished/keylogged/stolen/scammed. Steam accounts are easily recoverable, either if you have not changed the details or the original owner has proof of purchase
Warnings
1. Steam accounts can easily be retreived
2. Having a stolen steam can disable your other accounts as well
3. Reselling these items and having them be retrieved back later can cause people to thinking you scammed them leading to a ban
4. Selling Hacked/Phished steams are against sythe rules and will get you banned!
Preventions
1. Make sure you know the background of the account
2. Make sure you know the seller is legit
3. Try to get proof of purchase or original email
4. Ask about the policy if the account does get retreived/disabled
Steam Gifts:
Explanation: Steam gifts are basically cd-keys that other people buy for you when you activate them onto your account. They are often bought with stolen credit cards and resold to make some money.
Warnings
1. Buying steam gifts bought through stolen credit cards can disable your account
2. Steam gifts have a 95% revoke rate
3. Once steam sees that the payment has been reversed they will revoke the gift immediatley and may disable your steam account
4. Selling Carded steam gifts is against sythe rules and will get you banned!
Preventions
1. Make sure you are not buying any carded steam gifts
2. Make sure you know the seller is legit
3. Ask about a Refund Policy if the gift does get revoked
Steam Tools:
Explanation: Steam tools are used to benefit steam users whether it is to make it so there account cant get disabled or to get free gifts, this is depending on the tool
Warnings
1. Steam Tools can be viruses or phishers to steal your steam account or harm your computer
Preventions
1. Make sure the seller is legit
2. Scan the file on novirusthanks.org and virustotal.com and any other AV programs you have
Steam Cd-Keys:
Explanation: Steam Cd-keys are just like normal cd-keys just activated on steam platform. Depending on what game the cd-key is what game will be added to your account.
Warnings
1. Once you put a steam cd-key on your account the seller has proof of purchase on your account
2. Steam Cd-Key sales are often a scam
Preventions
1. Make sure you know the seller is legit
2. Make sure you know that he won't use the cd-key to retreive your account
Steam Phishers:
Explanation: Steam phishers are used to steal your account login name and password either disguising itself as a steam community page or a free game or what ever it may be.
Warnings
1. Logging into a phisher will steal your login information and you will loose your account
Preventions
1. Only trust the steam site:
http://www.steampowered.com
2. Don't login or download phishers!
Steam Digits:
Explanation: Steam digits are a series of numbers that represents your account. The lower the digit the more experience it shows, also the lower the digit the more the account is worth. Digits are considered the X's in Steam_ID:0:0:XXXXXXXX if there are 8 numbers after the last : there are 8 digits. 1 and 2 digits are not open to the public so if someone is selling one it is 99% chance of a scam. TO FIND STEAM DIGITS JOIN A VALVE GAME, GO INTO THE CONSOLE AND TYPE STATUS
