Hi everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to warn everyone that feels they are missing out on CSGO2 due to the recent false ban wave. Be careful of anyone else inviting you to any servers like FACEIT(example)- as it may be a scam.

Here is my story to provide context, anyone feel free to correct me or amplify / emphasize anything I missed got wrong.

I was hit with the DPI bug ban about a week ago. At the time I was trading some skins so I had set my profile to public. As soon as I went public, I received a LOT of friend requests. About 40 in 3 days. I decided to respond to someone's message of the list of people, asking if I would like to play with them. I work in cybersecurity so I like to learn about scams, and as I felt it was scammy already I fed into it to learn as much as I could about this particular approach. I think they were attempting top hijack my inventory byt adding me to a server of their own, and running tools etc to discover information about my IP. Here were the signs:

1. They wanted me to join their discord
2. They wanted me to share my screen
3. They wanted me to click on a link they sent to me
4. Their steam profiles were very limited, and 2 of them were level 2 on Steam.

These are flags that alert to an incoming SCAM. If you aren't aware of how people from CSGO2 are experiencing what scammer/hackers call 'session hijacking', please look through youtube to see how it has happened to many players joining 3rd party servers.

Someone messaged me yesterday asking to play, and he said he was going to play on FACEIT, and 40 minutes later he responded me about his gloves leaving his character and showing up on someone else's character on his team. He explained, they then called him a "LOSER" and booted him from the server. While this story may not be true as it was just a Steam friend online who shared it. However... I still wanted to emphasize being careful!!!

Sure our inventories are locked up currently, but it does look like this false ban is starting to be addressed. So be careful joining other unsecure servers, because trust me- having items locked up is better than having them stolen. I hope this post is not out of the forum topic, if anyone here has experienced this, please do share your insights.

We will always be fighting against hackers, however, we must stay vigilant. Do not allow people to sway you emotionally to do something that you have a bad feeling about, it's social engineering. I am sorry to anyone who this has happened to, and seek support to get this story out to everyone itching to hop into a match. Cheers, gamers.