Wingwire Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Well, for a while now my friend has been trying to sell his white Blizzardy Storm Vintage Merryweather, and today he thought he had a potential buyer. They asked that he send it to one of his trusted friend's accounts "for verification". The scammer then pretended to be my friend, and tricked the trusted friend into trading the unusual to him. But somehow his username is not under the known aliases. Here is the backpack in question: http://backpack.tf/profiles/76561198089032416 They have been trade banned, but I don't know if Valve will return all of those items to their real owners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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♠Derpeh♤ Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 1) not old 2) if your friends wasn't so derpy it us to the most obvious trick in the book for a straight up trade why do you need to middleman/verify? Unless it was crabbing or dealing with unusual which are in multiples of 10buds a middleman should raise a red flag. 3) 0% chance valve would care. They only restore if you were hijacked even then they are bitchy about it. Your items, your backpack, your responsibility. Not to mention there are multiple verifications asking you to be sure if you want to trade...etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingwire Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 1) not old 2) if your friends wasn't so derpy it us to the most obvious trick in the book for a straight up trade why do you need to middleman/verify? Unless it was crabbing or dealing with unusual which are in multiples of 10buds a middleman should raise a red flag. 3) 0% chance valve would care. They only restore if you were hijacked even then they are bitchy about it. Your items, your backpack, your responsibility. Not to mention there are multiple verifications asking you to be sure if you want to trade...etc He was confused at why it had to be traded to one of his own friends for verification, but was completely unaware this was going to happen. And with 3 isn't it the opposite? I'm pretty sure I read on Steam Support today that items stolen from hijacked accounts would not be returned because account security was up to the user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Budi Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 There have been literally hundreds of posts and threads about this method long before you decided to. All your friend had to do was use common sense and maybe read a bit in the forums for a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muffin Button Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Valve won't return the unusuals, let this be a lesson to you and your friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swaveboard SKREECH))) Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 2) if your friends wasn't so *derpeh it us to the most obvious trick in the book for a straight up trade why do you need to middleman/verify? Unless it was crabbing or dealing with unusual which are in multiples of 10buds a middleman should raise a red flag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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♠Derpeh♤ Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 He was confused at why it had to be traded to one of his own friends for verification, but was completely unaware this was going to happen. And with 3 isn't it the opposite? I'm pretty sure I read on Steam Support today that items stolen from hijacked accounts would not be returned because account security was up to the user If he was confused then he obviously shouldnt of gone through with it... And steam only ever restored if the user was phished...etc and they do check, if found to be valid they restore your backpack once and once only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wingwire Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 If he was confused then he obviously shouldnt of gone through with it... It was being sent to one of his own friends, so he thought it would be safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swaveboard SKREECH))) Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 The traditional pastimes of backpack. tf forumers is constructing Mayan Structures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolate Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 The traditional pastimes of backpack. tf forumers is constructing Mayan Structures First I get 5 million likes on a single post, now I get 692758248141 quotes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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knavesmith Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 First I get 5 million likes on a single post, now I get 692758248141 quotesI would have tried to prevent a pyramid from happening, but by the time I read this thread, the pyramid was already 3 layers tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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