My steam account has just been stolen, if you get a message from somebody named "SANTA" with a long sentence after it about free games, DON'T REPLY, I'm not sure if I'm going to get it back but I just want to warn others...

Contact Steam Support. If you can prove to them that it's YOUR account, they'll be able to get your account back to you.

I did, I just mainly wanted to warn others, I know 1 other person who had the same thing happen

yohoat9 wrote:
My steam account has just been stolen, if you get a message from somebody named "SANTA" with a long sentence after it about free games, DON'T REPLY, I'm not sure if I'm going to get it back but I just want to warn others...

I never reply to anyone I don't know.

yeah, I've now learned that

Reply? In what way? I'm scared now...

Wait, did you fall for the free games shit or did you have an easy to guess password?

I fell for the free games shit, I am so gullible, but really I though it was somebody else messaging me that's why I believed it

I got it back

Now starting chamber 19 reveal!!!

Glad to hear it, yohat!

yeah, I was really worried because a friend of mine had his stolen a few years back and even after contacting support he never got it back

Is that the nVidia/ATI free games thing? Because my friend messaged me with a link to that, but I dismissed it as a scam.

Maxpm wrote:
Is that the nVidia/ATI free games thing? Because my friend messaged me with a link to that, but I dismissed it as a scam.

If you have an nVidia/ATI graphics card, HL2:DM is free. I think it's probably already in your games list and is just waiting to be downloaded; at least, that's how it was with me. The link your friend sent may or may not have been an actual link to it, but the game is indeed free through VALVe if you have the graphics card.