Can a Steam account be recovered with first email or credit card information?

Selling Steam account is against Steam ToS, as far as I know.
However, I know that many people trade accounts.
Isn't there a risk that the seller can recover the account by contacting Steam support and providing the following information?:

1. the first registration email
2. Credit card information (if these credit cards are used by the seller and belong to the seller)

How else can they recover the account?

I recovered mine with my old account which was stolen years ago with my Counter-Strike CD Key before, but ended up giving it back to the thief because he added like 400 games to it and I felt bad.

So I assume if they have a CD Key recorded they could claim the account.

Lmah2x said:

I recovered mine with my old account which was stolen years ago with my Counter-Strike CD Key before, but ended up giving it back to the thief because he added like 400 games to it and I felt bad.

So I assume if they have a CD Key recorded they could claim the account.

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What does happen if the hacker or buyer adds his own CD-keys and credit cards and then makes purchases with his own credit cards? Can you still get it back from the buyer or hacker?

Rakanoth said:

What does happen if the hacker or buyer adds his own CD-keys and credit cards and then makes purchases with his own credit cards? Can you still get it back from the buyer or hacker?

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I think it could be the first CD Key added to the account. It wouldn't make any sense for anything after that.

The answer to any way of Steam account recovery is always going to be "maybe". Reason is Valve being Valve has no hard and fast set of policies. So it is whatever someone can convince the individual rep they are dealing with to do. Valve is real bad about that shit because of their "no bosses" model, they often have no real cohesive strategy for what they are doing. So your experience will differ from someone else's. You might talk to someone that is a real hardass and takes account security seriously, you might talk to someone who just says "ok" and gives you the account.

I've had to recover one of my older accounts it was a 6 digit account and my experience was positive. Generally if you have the original cdkey that you made the steam account with there should be no issues at all reclaiming it. They can also look up your purchase history but it gets to the YMMV point with different people with the purchase history

That's true. One of my friends convinced Valve and Blizzard staff to give him accounts he didn't own. He was just having an email and that's all.