Invalid Appeal: 76561198020188575 - (gaz / BANNED BY SR)

Appeal for BANNED BY SR

Steam profile: 76561198020188575 (gaz)

Appeal Plea: I am innocent of all listed offenses
Appeal Reason: [Accounts] Hijacked - My account was abused by hijacker

Victim Repayment: No, I committed no fraud or had no direct victims
Previous Appeals: Yes, I appealed here earlier for another situation in the past.​

Alternate or Related Accounts:

| steamname: I love lean
| steam3ID: [U:1:53031488]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:26515744
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198013297216
| customURL:
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198013297216

| steamname: Gerald
| steam3ID: [U:1:1179519312]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:589759656
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199139785040
| customURL: https://steamcommunity.com/id/onlypureman
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561199139785040

| steamname: Pumbaa
| steam3ID: [U:1:194248943]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:1:97124471
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198154514671
| customURL: https://steamcommunity.com/id/gingerdoritos
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198154514671​

Appeal description:

Dear SteamRep Staff,

I am going all the way I can to prove that I am innocent, that I am not a scammer, who stole thousands of items from innocent people, and tries to use alts to avoid the ban.

On July 18th, I have decided to start the account deletion of this Steam account, but due to SteamRep policies to not appeal from alts, I have cancelled it because during Account Deletion you cannot log into any kind of third party sites, but once this situation is resolved in any way, I will go forward with it again. Reason being is that I never really used it much, didn't even know it had a SteamRep forums profile this old and apparently it had a past appeal (I was 11 years old when that one was made, I had 0 English knowledge back then, no way I created that.), and also it created so much problems, and since it's existence was really insignificant for me, that I have decided to finally get rid of it. Why didn't I do it earlier? Simply, cause I didn't know it was going to cause so much harm and problems, especially for me, so I deemed it dangerous at this point, because I have no idea who and what has access to it. And also I didn't know you can delete Steam Accounts until recently. I have screenshotted EVERYTHING useful I could find from that account, so that I can to prove that I am innocent, and I will confess everything that I have done and I have not done. This is not a "safety measure" to "cover up my tracks and deeds". Whatever gets on the internet, stays on the internet. This is only for personal reasons, to finally be able to close this thing down for good. Proof of Account Deletion process is added.

An apology.
I want to start off by saying, I deeply apologize to both Staff members of SteamRep and backpack.tf, and to the victims. My irresponsibility and carelessness has caused many people hard times, including myself. I am fully aware that I have broken rules, and that I currently am, since I can't appeal other community's bans, but I feel like this is a different matter, and this is my only chance of being granted some redemption. I appealed on backpack.tf multiple times from two accounts (first from the Pumbaa account, which I consider my main account, and then from this one, the "originally banned"). I know I did something unacceptable, I made up a terrible lie that what I thought back then was "a logical idea", but it was 4 years ago, and it was a time of uncertainity in my life, and TF2 wasn't in top priority at that time, I put my wellbeing and other's first rather than the game, but it was always important for me, since thanks to it I found great friends, made very dear memories I hold very close to me, and I found the love of my life there, who brought happiness to my life. It holds so much value for me, never thought that a video game could do that, but I should have treated it with more respect and more responsible, and I only found out late, how important this game is for me, for us... So I am very motivated to resolve this long-lasting issue with whatever I can. Pictures of
backpack.tf appeals are provided below.

The alts
The alts were my second mistake I made. Being lazy bore its awful fruit. At the end of 2018, I was planning on quitting TF2 because I lost interest and our graduation was coming quickly, so I needed every time I can have to study enough. In 2019, a friend brought it to my attention that I have been banned on backpack.tf and also got marked on SteamRep because of it. At that time school and life was waaay more important for me, but since I was overwhelmed with negative emotions and thoughts, I wasn't level-headed enough to be able to create a proper appeal, so I tried what seemed back then a "logical and well crafted appeal". I made the appeal on backpack.tf where I lied that I "sold the scammer account and whoever bought it did all the scamming". I still have no idea in which reality was that "logical" and "well crafted", for which I feel super embarrased and I deeply apologise for doing so. I don't know what part of me thought lying was a good idea. Obviously, that appeal was instantly rejected, and I wasn't in the mood to start going after a dead account I had no relation to since 2014, so I decided that to "leave it for later", because there were more important things than videogames, and decided to focus on finishing school and fixing my personal life instead. Later on, after everything became smooth and straight, at the end of 2022, my friends and my partner wanted to pick up TF2 again. Since I knew that I was banned, I had to find other solutions to buy items and trade it to me. So this is were I made another grave mistake, by digging up old, unused accounts to purchase items from cs.deals, a sort of marketplace where you can buy items for real money. I know I shouldn't have, but all I knew back then was "No one's gonna forgive me, and after 4 years, there's no way that I can prove that account was hijacked and abused beyond my control and knowledge." But now, I realized should have taken the time to gather as much evidence as I can to try to prove my innocence...

Every transaction from cs.deals is screenshotted, with trade history and bank transfer history also included. With these I only want to further prove that I only used the alts to purchase items legit, with real money and then trade those to my account, not to engage in malicious activities.

The victims and the suspects
I screenshotted the account's trade history as per required by rules, and also collected out all of the involved accounts (excluding bots). I don't know how useful this will be, but I also collected them into a txt file and uploaded here.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/parrotoxyoutube <----------- Suspect

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198075653772 <----------- Suspect

https://steamcommunity.com/id/76561198158 <----------- Suspect

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197999213775 <----------- Suspect

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198195869014 <----------- Victim (Strange Burning Flames Deep Cover Operator traded)

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Aeodoodles <----------- Victim/Netural(?)

https://steamcommunity.com/id/test9 <----------- Victim/Netural(?)

https://steamcommunity.com/id/TenkoNoVinkoven <----------- Victim (Purple Energy Killer's Exclusive traded)

https://steamcommunity.com/id/vourii <----------- Victim (Sunbeams Hong Kong Cone + sweets traded)

https://steamcommunity.com/id/princess2000 <----------- Victim(?) (Tons of Unusuals, skins and other miscs traded)

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198127122620 <----------- Victim (Sunbeams Rotation Sensation traded)

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198009209092 <----------- Victim (?) (Golden Pan traded, but private profile)

https://steamcommunity.com/id/larumba <---------- Victim/Netural (?) (few keys were traded)

https://steamcommunity.com/id/_naknak_ <---------- Victim/Netural (?) (few keys were traded)


Closing words
This is everything I can provide. Again, I thank the staff for their patience and hopefully their understanding and support, and I deeply apologise for not being able to follow certain rules due to the nature of this situation, but I tried my very best nonetheless.. I can't provide Steam Support Ticket on Account Recovery, because for some reason Steam decided to delete them, but I tried looking around in my old e-mail (associated with the account) and to my suprise they didn't change anything, it seems only just a phone number was added in 2018 (picture provided) , which was most likely removed by the time I entered the account (hence it didn't ask for 2FA code). Most likely they also had access to that e-mail account (very very old gmail account with no 2FA and outdated password).

Thank you again for your patience and hopefully your support and understanding!​

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And the last of the pictures. I can also put all of them into one RAR file and upload it for better clarity!

Thank you again, and I'm hoping for the best outcome! If I have missed anything, please do let me know!