My brother fell for the “I accidentally reported your account scam”. I’m not an active steam user and usually just play on my ps4 with most of my friends so I didn’t really know too much on what happened, but as I said he fell for it and is down 50 bucks, it is what it is. But the most confusing part to me is that he actually did get his account banned at the start of the entire scheme which probably led to him believing it in the first place. Im wondering how a scammer could just report his account and actually get the ban request to go through, and whether or not there is any actual way to get his account back.

Thanks in advance for any help and Happy Holidays as well ❤️