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If someone doesn't have this badge, they aren't an "admin", simple as that. Most Valve employees will also have a purple badge (Example) when looked up on steamrep.com . You are very unlikely to ever run into one of these profiles in Steam, and if you do, it will NOT be in a trade. That is a scam.
A VAC ban is not to be confused with a server side specific ban. If you receive the notification message "STEAMID IS BANNED" when attempting to join a game-server then you have received a server side specific ban. The server administration team for the server in question have decided to prohibit you from joining their server, but you have not received a VAC ban and as a result you may continue to partake on other game-servers. VAC is an automated system and server administrators may not impose a VAC ban.