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What do I do about an impersonator?


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Was recently informed from a comment on my Steam profile by this guy that an individual is attempting to impersonate me and scam using my backpack.tf link. I have no evidence that he is actually scamming because he blocked me when I tried to add him http://imgur.com/a/p0hyq What can I do about this?

 

Scammer/Impersonator in question: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198147744811/ 

Screenshot of his private profile with my profile picture: http://imgur.com/a/uxa3i

His Steamrep (Surprisingly using his main account? Made in 2014): https://steamrep.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsteamcommunity.com%2Fprofiles%2F76561198147744811%2F Pic of it just incase he changes something: http://imgur.com/a/bwc2H

 

 

Edit: Was provided this, this is him scamming: https://imgur.com/a/T7cjk

Should I report via steamrep or here? I know steamrep takes fucking forever, am I even able to report here?

 

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Add him and inform him that, as the person he is impersonating, you are entitled to a 50% cut of the profit he makes.


If he doesn't comply, he is a bad person and not to be trusted and you should file a report either way. Use f-o-g, they're much faster than steamrep.

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Reported him to FOG, appeal denied and appeal seems to be deleted (can't find anywhere on the website). Denied mainly because they don't take Steam Mobile chat as evidence for some weird reason, not to mention all the people coming forward warning me about these same users.

 

Was informed ~30 min ago about another guy imitating me, I suggest reading his little profile, he's clearly looking to scam using my info

His account: http://steamcommunity.com/id/toad092323434/

Pic of it: 

 

 

Any other suggestions? Should I approach backpack.tf mods and bazaar.tf mods about it and hope they ban them on their sites? A bit frustrating when mods on ban/appeal sites are sitting on their hands while this shit is going on.

 

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The second impersonator has changed their custom profile URL, but if you can find it again, you should be able to report them just with their profile info. If they don't have a private profile, the fact that they're linking to your backpack as "their" backpack is enough to get them tagged IIRC. Take a screenshot of their profile in a web browser with you mousing over their backpack link so it shows that it links to your backpack, then report them on SteamRep or FoG. SteamRep isn't actually that slow most of the time, especially for simple cases like this.

 

The first one you would need evidence of a scam to tag because they have a private profile, and they're not clearly impersonating you (at least according to SteamRep's guidelines; just same name and profile picture isn't enough unless the user being impersonated has a green tag).

 

All this is just what I happen to remember; if any of this information is wrong/outdated, sorry about that.

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