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Does anybody know what monopoly.tf is? They seem to have 10 bots, I get a lot of trade offers from this one https://steamcommunity.com/id/monopolytfbot3/ with this message in the trade "If you are having issues please visit https://monopoly.tf for more information.". Their website seems to have absolutely no information on it and contact us button does nothing. I only started getting offers from them about a month ago, is the website some kind of scam?

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The bots sending trade offers are meant to lure people to the site, where the only option is to 'contact us' via email. This is where someone will likely try to sell their bs. I imagine they will try to sell it off like a Marketplace.tf in order to get you to part with your items.

 

Random trade offers from bots are just fishy. I'm not finding any steam groups either. I'd say 100% a scam. 

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Contact button is their email, website is likely a placeholder for something, not necesserily a scam. It's probably just a bunch of bots checking bp.tf (and maybe other sites) for good deals and sending trades.

Interestingly enough, you can't extract trade url from the listing using api, so bots like monopoly or this one https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198449688862/ must've actually scrape web pages. Is this even allowed?

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Who knows what "monopoly.tf" is actually going to be. Just try sending them an email and see what they say. 

 

Wtf do they mean by "previously disconnected markets" though? Like, trading sites that have been dead? What are they gonna do, revive TF2WH? Can't wait for it to last all of a month before it gets shut down because it was such a joke of a service for the last year of its life.

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i dont think the actual monopoly.tf staff are related to this. my theory states that people are either using its name to ruin their business before its even officially released to the public or scam you by using their not-so-reputable reputation

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I should clarfiy that they arent just random trade offers but offers for stuff I actually have a buy order for, but ive only recieved the offers on my trading bot. My best guess is they are pulling off some kind of arbitrage scheme between bots scanning every trading website or they are liquidating stolen goods. Not sure but definetly wierd and sketchy.

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