****IMPORTANT - Verifying your email on Steam ****

[iamdjdz]

Start Steam
- File
- Settings
- Account
- Validate Email Address
- Then you get sent an email to open from your contact email address
- go back to settings and your contact email should be ( Verified )

It is imperative that at this point if you have not done so already, you change either your Steam or verified email password so that they are different. This means that if one is hacked the other can't be hacked with the same password.

Thanks must go to Nico_Joey for explaining this in the other thread.

This is from the Steam account getting stolen thread. It should give the added protection of being able to recover your Steam account with less hassle. It is important that you do this and is not widely publicised within Steam. Hopefully it will stop people's accounts getting stolen in the future.

I know there are loads of Stickies already, but could a Mod sticky this as it is important information.

I wrote this as I realised from the other thread that most people had never done nor heard about verifying Steam account. I hadn't until I read the other thread.

 

[Nate--IRL--]

Good Idea about the sticky.

I had no idea about the email verification until I read that thread.

Nate

 

[Dano]

Same, was glad to be reminded to verify mine as I had no idea I hadn't already done so.

 

[Fromez]

This process won't be much good if the hackers hack your email account too, you know.

 

[DampCat]

It also won't be much good if they come round your house with a gun and force you to write down all your passwords, you know.

 

[Naffa]

This is extremely handy as long as you don't have the same password for your Steam account and your email account.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Cheers for this, five seconds well spent to help secure my Steam account.

 

[Sho]

Thxs, didnt know about this.

 

[Sinque]

I had no idea this could be done, I assumed it was verified when I registered

 

[Eddie]

Did this a while back when Steam announced it, only takes a few seconds and there's no harm in a little added security.

 

[KnightStalker]

Thanks for that, had no idea you had to verify it, been using steam since 04 lol

 

[chaparral]

This is extremely handy as long as you don't have the same password for your Steam account and your email account.

The OP really needs to add about making sure you use different passwords for your e-mail account & steam account to his post...

 

[Tefal]

no one reads the stickies

 

[Azagoth]

Are you kidding me? A forum populated by gamers, techies and geeks and you think they need to be told to verify a gaming account that could have cost them many hundreds of pounds to acquire?

 

[alex24]

Are you kidding me? A forum populated by gamers, techies and geeks and you think they need to be told to verify a gaming account that could have cost them many hundreds of pounds to acquire?

Some of the posts in this thread would imply that, yes. It would have been news to me had I not noticed it a couple of weeks ago whilst looking at the settings.

 

[iamdjdz]

Edited OP to include about not having the same passwords as the email account.

And to respond to Azagoth, I hadn't heard about it, and neither had a lot of people in the other thread - better to save 1 person whos never heard of this' Steam account than no-ones imo.

 

[Bloomfield]

Mine's already verified, but my steam password and email password is the same , cba changing one of them tho, i have a terrible memory .

 

[Kelah]

thanks, just verified my email

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Are you kidding me? A forum populated by gamers, techies and geeks and you think they need to be told to verify a gaming account that could have cost them many hundreds of pounds to acquire?

Obviously. I know I certainly didn't know that I could verify my e-mail address, Valve didn't exactly make it obvious. It would seem I'm not the only not to notice it either.

I do think that Valve need to highlight this a bit better though.

 

[Psypher5]

Sticky! NAOW.

I've been in the "you logged on in another location" msg and continued to poop myself for about half an hour while it kept happening. Got a long password and verified now. Although steam support was helpfull too A quick pic of a game box and your sorted.