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I completely agree with you. Hope everyone sees this and suitable action is taken
Ive been getting at least 20-30 fake accounts adding me with phishing links with the "my friend cant add you because of Steam error". Its really getting up my goat.
I've been getting those too. But, I'm fairly sure those aren't fake-accounts, they're legitimate accounts that have been hijacked (probably from that same phishing-scam).
Either way, this suggestion won't help with any of that.
Just a header like that would not be enough, imho. It should also tell you how to do that in a way that is difficult to be tampered with by social engineering.
For example, you could reinforce more that http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/ERWWE/find-user-by-steam-id should be how you visit someone's profile here on the site, never through a link someone gives you. Too many people I meet ask me them to my profile when they could just look it up themselves.
Scamming over Steam has gotten out of control. There is a simple technological solution you can implement which would stop 95% of SteamTrades-related scams!
The most common scam goes like this:
Impersonator: Hi, I'm BlueRaja! This is my rep: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/BlueRaja
Scammee: Ok, I will just believe that. What do you want?
Impersonator: I'll give you a million dollars for that expensive TF2 hat. You can totally trust me.
Scamme: Ok, but when you scam me I'll leave negative rep on that SteamTrades profile
Impersonator: Deal.
The problem is that most people don't realize that just looking at the name/picture is enough. The solution? Tell them in big red letters to compare the steam profiles! Something like this.
Remember, you can check REFERER header, so you don't need to show that banner if they came to that page from steamtrades.com or steamgifts.com. It will only affect people who are linked to rep-pages from outside sources!
I've also posted this suggestion here