Locking the Account

Whenever any of your Steam account credentials are changed or whenever Steam Guard is triggered an email will be sent to your verified email address.Within the email exists a link which says "". If you've already lost control of your account select it. The next screen will ask you to type the words "" in the box and then select the button to confirm.Locking your account will prevent it from purchasing, gifting, trading, activating cd-keys, playing online on VAC enabled game servers, and it will disable Steam Community access. Once the account has beenby Steam Support all functionality will return to normal.