# The census Valve won't publish — The Steam Dossier

> Public census of Steam trade, community and VAC bans, cross-checked against SteamRep and marketplace data to expose enforcement gaps.

Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit
Language: en
Publisher: PhishDestroy
Author: PhishDestroy Team

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## Reading

- [Published page](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit)
- [Complete Markdown](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit.html.md)
- [Complete plain-text version](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit/llms-full.txt)
- [Investigation index](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/llms.txt)

## Sections

- [Ten million accounts, and nine of ten untouched](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scale)
- [ASF joins the group for you](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scale)
- [10,880,610 total entries](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scale)
- [88.97% clean](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scale)
- [Of 10,880,610 accounts, how many Valve has touched](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scale)
- [What this fleet already paid Valve to exist](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scale)
- [Where the fleet lives](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#geo)
- [Banned accounts by declared country](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#geo)
- [Recent accounts, not a legacy backlog](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#fresh)
- [When the banned accounts were created](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#fresh)
- [When Valve acts, it acts inside the first year](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#timing)
- [How old the account was when the ban landed](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#timing)
- [When Valve does act, it doesn't stop the bot](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#ban-type)
- [What the 11% who are banned are actually banned for](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#ban-type)
- [The scammers Valve lets walk: The 51,732 Complete Census](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scammers)
- [Confirmed scammers, by whether Valve applied a scam-relevant ban (Full Census)](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#scammers)
- [The 100,000-account empirical audit: botnets are not disposable free accounts](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#limited-audit)
- [100,000 Unbiased Slice](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#limited-audit)
- [Margin of Error < ±0.4%](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#limited-audit)
- [Why Any 100k Yields the Same](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#limited-audit)
- [100,000 Banned Accounts: Paid ($5+ Store Spend) vs Free Limited Status](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#limited-audit)
- [The Structural Reality: Industrial-Scale Account Liquidation](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#limited-audit)
- [How this was read, and what it does not claim](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#method)
- [What is claimed](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#method)
- [What is not claimed](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#method)
- [Why it matters](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/enforcement_audit#method)

## Evidence and downloads

- [Raw Census JSON (1.2 KB) ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/steam_tos_assets/asf-ban-census-2026-09-23.json)
- [SteamRep API Bans (2.6 MB) ↓](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/databases/steamrep_steam_bans.csv)
- [Banned DB (60.4 MB) ↓](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/databases/banned_archiasf_massive.csv)
- [slice_100k_limited_results.csv](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/databases/slice_100k_limited_results.csv)
- [BANNED_100K_FORENSIC_ANALYSIS.md](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/reports/BANNED_100K_FORENSIC_ANALYSIS.md)
- [banned_100k_slice.csv](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/databases/banned_100k_slice.csv)
- [Spend Analysis MD ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/reports/STEAM_BANNED_LIMIT_ANALYSIS.md)
- [Overview Roadmap ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/INVESTIGATION_OVERVIEW.md)
- [VAC Irrelevance Analysis ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/reports/STEAMREP_VS_STEAM_AUDIT.md)
- [SteamRep Source (2.1 MB) ↓](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/databases/SteamRep_Profiles_BannedCaution_2024.csv)
- [Russian Conflicts Report (127 KB) ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/reports/russian_conflicts_report.json)
- [Classification Report (66 KB) ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/reports/classification_report.json)
- [Valve Incompetence Dossier (43 KB) ↗](https://phishdestroy.io/steam_dossier/VALVE_EVIDENCE_PACK/reports/VALVE_INCOMPETENCE_REPORT.md)