Greymor Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Everyone, Please; If you ever find yourself being approached by someone offering to buy your unusuals for you asking price. They might ask for a middleman to be one of your friends. Your friend will join the chat and they'll privately ask them some simple questions to get intelligence on you. Once that's done; they'll ask you to trade them to your "friend" and they will be gone forever. Your "friend" is actually someone that was set up to mimic your friend, down to their profile pic; and you'll be too happy that you've found a buyer, you'll gladly trade your unusuals to the doppelganger. Only then will it hit you that they aren't who they seem. And it's already too late, the doppelganger has already traded 'em off to the mother account. They're gone. Your greed got the best of you and you've realized that 20 buds for a shitty unusual taunt is ridiculous. Nobody would buy that. Too late now. This exact story happened to me. In my panic, I reported both people and tried everything I could: http://steamcommunity.com/id/shakarov/ This person mimiced someone on my friends list; then proceeded to lie about who they were; in doing so, they then pretended to be one of my friends in order to accuire my unusuals for free. http://puu.sh/bL8dQ/405c71b19a.jpg Here is a picture of the mimic's account, they changed their name multiple times order to throw us off. http://puu.sh/bL8mI/9af14d9357.jpg here is another image, showing that the user has changed their name multiple times. Finally here is the mimic's account: http://steamcommunity.com/id/123as123 PLEASE PLEASE Help the community and ban these two; I can guess that they have done this before, do NOT let them go unpunished.I know this is not a question, but nobody else should have to suffer what has happened to me; please don't just skim over this monstrosity. I'd like to have it so that nobody else has this happen to them. http://puu.sh/bLaGg/f2987425a3.png http://puu.sh/bLb0H/de87e9b058.png These two are the events that transpired on just the original bait. Guys, Don't let this happen to anyone else, can we band together and make these scams go public as they appear? I'd like to introduce you to The A.S.C.; The Anti-Scam Coalition. The only goal is to expose what tricks scammers use to scam in one central database. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Anti-Scam_Coalition Feel free to join and Tell the methods that have been tried on you. http://steamcommunity.com/id/FearIsNothing (My ID) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedarium Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 really l8. many of us have had this tried on us, over and over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondHavoc. Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 l88888 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixλr900 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 l88888 #2moreposttill666town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aearsears Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 l888888888888888888888888888888 l8r than l8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kloo_ Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 l80 l8 m80 0/8 wud not r8 not gr8 srry m8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melon™YT: TF2&Shit Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 well this was well known scamm type :I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixλr900 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 l8 m8 i r8 dont h8, sodium nitr8 Why are you looking at me? whaddidido? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insanityyyy Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 I just dont understand why there is a need for a middleman? thats insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenoPsydE Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Really old. But, what I don't understand, is how anyone falls for this. Way back in 1946, before I had heard of this type of scam, if someone had asked me to trade an unusual to a friend for any reason I would have immediately been suspicious. Why would I (need) to do that? I know they say things like "to show your commitment" or "verify it's history". To me that's just bullshit. This scam has been posted ad nauseum all over multiple community forums. Welcome to the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripster99™ Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 really l8. many of us have had this tried on us, over and over again. No one tried this on me :x I'm always left out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenoPsydE Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Also, did you check the guy out before even considering a trade with him? If you answered no to that I don't know what to tell you... http://forums.steamrep.com/search/3824376/?q=76561198148359190&o=date&c[title_only]=1&c[node]=3+43+34+60+35+36+37+38+41+42+39+52+17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakey-Boo Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 So l8 Gandhi knew about it before you (yes i stole that quote from someone but I don't know who) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deku Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 this happened to me in mid july ;-; they stole my orb fire jeepcap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wubsies ♥ Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 tl;dr and anything else others are saying(l8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowslayer Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Screw those People They took my petti robo counter feit billycock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoㅤ Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 its your fault if you dont know about these scams in 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.50 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 l8r than l8 l9? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Prof. Sugarcube♥ Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 I don't even trade Unusuals and I know about this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swag Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 no offense, but anyone who gets scammed with tactics like these is a retard in my books. either grow the fuck up and stop caring about virtual items or grow a brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Prof. Sugarcube♥ Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 no offense, but anyone who gets scammed with tactics like these is a retard in my books. either grow the fuck up and stop caring about virtual items or grow a brain. Mind the language, there was no other alternatives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♠Derpeh♤ Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I just dont understand why there is a need for a middleman? thats insane no offense, but anyone who gets scammed with tactics like these is a retard in my books. either grow the fuck up and stop caring about virtual items or grow a brain. ^this I would understand if it was the as a large amount of buds/unusual so they would prefer a middleman but most people who fal for it are for 1:1 trades(why the heck would you need a middleman?) The other excuse was 'worry you would trade it away' I want to sell, why would I trade it away if you're paying my b/o. Why would you want me to trade it to my friend which is like 0% security... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knavesmith Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 The l8 is strong with this m8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zefrom Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 You guys are just spamming this thread withh useless posts, l8 Can't you say something intelligent like good luck next time instead of posting stupid and repeated things like l8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixλr900 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 You guys are just spamming this thread withh useless posts, l8 Can't you say something intelligent like good luck next time instead of posting stupid and repeated things like l8 l8 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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