Hi, @leveragetrading,

The account you are referring to can be owned by anyone. The account @steem was and is still being used by Steemit to create accounts for the general public through their faucet.

Unfortunately, there is no way that anyone can help you to recover your STEEM at this point apart from finding the owner of that account and hoping that he is kind enough to return the STEEM.

This is probably not something that you wanted to hear, but at least, you have now a more realistic take on the situation.