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Can a VAC banned account trade?

If a VAC Ban, cooldown or overwatch ban has been registered on your account, you will no longer have access to the CS:GO store, or be able to make trades for CS:GO items, and you will no longer receive item drops.
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How do I trade skins off my VAC banned account?

Nope, If your account is marked with a VAC ban any items in your inventory under the category CSGO are non-tradeable. VAC itself has nothing to do with account/trading limitations, and bypassing VAC after you have got a ban in the specific game will not let you trade away any items. How can we get free Valorant skins?
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Should I make a new Steam account if I get VAC banned?

In principle, you should not be VAC banned on the new account, unless you repeat the offense that caused the ban in the first place. However, if you are playing on the same computer and IP address, you might be watched more closely for suspicious behavior.
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Does a VAC ban lock your inventory?

If you receive a VAC ban in Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, or Half-Life 2 all your items will be removed from your Team Fortress 2 inventory. Steam Support is unable to restore these items. Additionally, you will no longer have access to the TF2 Store or receive item drops.
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What gets you trade banned on Steam?

If evidence exists that the Steam user is a scammer, Steam Support will ban the account from using the Steam Community, including Trading and using the Steam Market. The length of the ban is dependent on the severity and quantity of the scams. In some cases, scammers will be banned permanently.
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How To Unlock Trade Ban From A VAC Banned Account (CSGO)

How long is trade ban on Steam?

Trade holds last up to 15 days. If you're trading items with a friend, and you've been friends for more than 1 year, the hold is 1 day.
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Why do I have to wait 7 days to trade on Steam?

A trade hold is a period of time after a trade is accepted by both parties where the traded items are held by Steam before they are delivered. It lasts up to 15 days. This is needed for user protection from malefactors.
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How long does VAC trade ban last?

Steam Support :: I've been VAC banned. VAC bans are permanent, non-negotiable, and cannot be removed by Steam Support. If a VAC ban is determined to have been issued incorrectly it will automatically be removed. If you wish to discuss Valve Anti-Cheat with the community, you may do so here.
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What can't you do with a VAC ban?

VAC bans prevent you from playing on secured servers across all of Steam. Server administrators may issue a Server ban, but these are not as severe as a VAC ban. We cannot prevent Server bans at Valve; whoever runs the server can ban players for any reason they desire.
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Does VAC ban your IP?

No it does not ban by IP, it bans the account only. Banning by IP, or hardware is useless due to how easily they can be spoof from user end, which why it's pointless banning that way.
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Is VAC ban worse than game ban?

The difference is that with a game ban you can still play casual games, but with a VAC ban you can only play with bots.
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Can Steam ban your entire account?

Community Bans are issued to an account when the account is used in ways that violate Steam's Community Guidelines excessively. Most Community Bans will expire, but extended or even permanent bans may be issued if the prohibited activity continues or if the moderation team finds the activity egregious.
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Does VAC ban all your accounts?

Steam VAC bans are account-specific. If you have more than one account and one of those accounts is VAC banned, the other account(s) is/are not.
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Why did I get VAC banned for no reason?

all VAC bans come from the detection of a known cheat, whether it is used on the account itself or some sort of sharing has occurred (account, library or phone number). Users are responsible for the security of the account and all that happens on it.
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Can you refund VAC banned games?

If you have been banned by VAC (the Valve Anti-Cheat system) on a game, you lose the right to refund that game.
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How long does a VAC ban take?

It is only after a delay of "days or even weeks" that the account is permanently banned from "VAC Secure" servers for that game, possibly along with other games that use the same engine (e.g. Valve's Source games, GoldSrc games, Unreal Engine games). Valve never discloses which cheat was detected.
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Has anyone ever had a VAC ban removed?

It's incredibly rare to get a VAC ban removed, but it has happened in very specific circumstances. Your ban won't be removed. It would have been done a long time ago if it was a mistake. Yes...
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Is a game ban a VAC ban?

The effects of the game ban are determined by the developer, and must be consistent with a VAC ban, such as being prevented from playing online with other players and/or trading items for that game. It cannot prevent the user from launching and playing the game offline. It cannot prevent the user from using Steam.
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Can you get VAC banned twice?

As stated, you CANNOT get VAC banned in the same game twice.
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Can you bypass Steam 7 day market restriction?

Important: Steam Support cannot modify trading or Community Market restrictions, regardless of the circumstances under which your account became restricted.
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How to bypass Steam guard 15 days?

You can't use the Steam Community Market if your Steam account is limited. In order to remove this restriction, you must have spent $5 on Steam. The only way of using it without a purchase would be by adding $5 to your account (you don't necessarily have to spend it), or by activating a Steam gift card.
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Why is my trade held for 15 days?

If you haven't had your account protected by a Mobile Authenticator for at least the last 7 days, items leaving your account will be held by Steam for up to 15 days. This provides you time to discover any transactions on hold that you didn't make.
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What is the oldest ban in Steam?

Permanent bans were first used in 2005.
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Can Steam ban you for too many refunds?

There's no known hard limit, but don't test it. If you have got the message " we see you have recently refunded several games" or something similar to that, then I suggest that you purchase more carefully.
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