FYI: when you buy anything from the Steam site, it's wise to pay by Paypal and make an image of your transaction (on the Paypal site, not the steam site) showing the history and actual transaction ID number. A stored image is guard against when Paypal automatically erases old transaction history.

=>Knowledge of the Paypal transaction number is the chief method Steam uses to arbitrate disputes!

Because a thief with your stolen Steam password knows your purchase history, but they have no way to know the Papal transaction number which is on the Paypal site. Steam knows that number too.

It's the first thing Steam customer service will ask you: to send an image of the transaction from off your online Paypal account showing the actual transaction number.

Because I could, I am playing all the games purchased from here in America, instead of thief(s) who were in Malaysia.

 

 

 

You can also enable two-factor authentication with Steam Guard to prevent account hijacking.

Edited November 11, 20205 yr by JacquesBrel

8 hours ago, JacquesBrel said:

You can also enable two-factor authentication with Steam Guard to prevent account hijacking.

What he said.

And practice safe password use. Always use a unique password for each site that requires a password. Never re-use passwords. Use a password manager such as LastPass so you only have to remember one master password (and make it long, but easy to remember). Use the password manager to generate long random passwords for all sites (where I can, I use 32 character completely random passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols).

...jim

 

I can't use for a password the first letter of each word of the Army song I learned.

...because they replaced:

Then it's hi! hi! hee!

In the field artillery.

...with the namby pamby:

Then it's hi! hi! hey!

The Army's on its way.