I have noticed that scammers are dumping stolen items into Quicksell.store bot inventories.

[thebanditruby]

I saw a thread earlier on here about a user who's items were stolen. I decided I would track them down and attempt to get some of them back. I noticed that they've all been dumped into a quicksell.store bot inventory.

 

 

Here's some proof of his more expensive items being dumped there:

 

https://backpack.tf/item/3319182866 scammer wasn't tracked in this exchange, only the bot was tracked.

https://backpack.tf/item/2298676330 same with above, although the item is in a private inventory or was deleted.

https://backpack.tf/item/1143875383 scammer wasn't tracked here either.

https://backpack.tf/item/4671845151 this one, however, was dumped into an stn.tf bot.

 

This seems to be a running theme with these items being stolen. The scammer never gets tracked, instead the items are dumped into a bot.

[Knightfury69]

Point of the post though? the site cant keep a track of who dumps to their bots since the process is automated (except for maybe steamrep banned users which i dont knoww about)

[Zeus_Junior]

Scammers often dump items for pure anywhere because pure sells for cash much easier.

[Vrakos Anthrakir]

Couple things:

 

You've made the assumption that the person who claimed their stuff was stolen is telling the truth despite no evidence proving their claim.

 

The scammer/thief (if any) would not show up in an item history if backpack.tf never registers them as having the item (i.e. their backpack doesn't get loaded between them acquiring the stuff and getting rid of the stuff).

[Slam]

4 hours ago, Vrakos Anthrakir said:

The scammer/thief (if any) would not show up in an item history if backpack.tf never registers them as having the item (i.e. their backpack doesn't get loaded between them acquiring the stuff and getting rid of the stuff).

 

^ yeah at this point unless you're a totally novice / noob scammer, or you scammed a player that has no clue what they're doing or how to check items on bp.tf, you're going to immediately set your inventory private (or have it private already) after you scam items and launder them through alt accounts that look legit whilst loading those accounts on bp.tf to make false histories. This is why a lot of players that get their accounts stolen via things like the tournament scams end up having random trades in their history pop up after they get their account back which have tons of keys and other valuables passing through their account.

[LuckyGator]

I don't understand users often defending sites like mannco, quicksell, scrap, backpack bots etc. I still believe that (at least the big sites) should give reparations for scammed items that were dumped to their bot, especially if they can afford it.

[Abstract]

20 minutes ago, Akiha said:

I don't understand users often defending sites like mannco, quicksell, scrap, backpack bots etc. I still believe that (at least the big sites) should give reparations for scammed items that were dumped to their bot, especially if they can afford it.

There's no way for bot owners to reliably track the original owner of the items and I doubt they would give back for free something they purchased.