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Greed; A scammee's story


Greymor

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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)

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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.

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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.

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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.

 

1stum_you_came_to_wrong_neighborhood_mf.

 

Mind the language, there was no other alternatives.

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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...

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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

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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

 

 

 

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