On impersonators

There has been quite the rise in impersonators around here lately and more and more people seem to fall for their scams. It has been suggested that there should be a post concerning the subject, in order to prevent users from getting scammed, however considering that ST is not actively moderated, we wouldn't be able to maintain such a topic currently. The warning about this subject is more on how to avoid or handle such scams.

Please make sure the ST profile being linked from the person adding you, actually belongs to them. Verify that their steam profile URL is the same as the one who added you to trade and obviously, please search for them on steamrep, don't ask them to link their profile/rep, just do it yourselves.

In the case of such a scam occuring, please report them to steamrep and SG support, by providing some proof of what happened and explaining any details (please attach screenshots of your chatlogs and their steam profile). Creating a thread on SG forums in not the way to go, as that will get you temporarily suspended for calling out. There have been incidents of the wrong person getting blamed for a scam and thus harassed for absolutely no reason.


On feedback

Misuse of feedback has been turning out to be quite an issue, not only with messing up trades but also with reports on support about its removal. I think that most users are not aware of how it should be used thus this thread will serve as a reminder and a warning on how it should be used, how it shouldn't be used and what will happen if it's not used accordingly.


Feedback should be used for :

  • Successfully completed trades.
  • Scammers/Impersonators and warning the community about those

Feedback should NOT be used for :

  • Random comments, unrelated to a trade.
  • Comments such as "rude", "lowballer", "regifter" and so on. This is trade and not attitude related feedback.
  • Fake positive feedback for boosting your reputation count.
  • Revenge reputation (such as giving negative rep to someone just because they gave you false negative rep).

Common sense should apply in the above. The fact that I didn't mention a specific comment does not mean that it's acceptable. Misuse of feedback can get you suspended temporarily and if done repeatedly, suspension can get permanent. Revenge feedback, in particular, is especially tricky considering a lot of people want negative reputation removed from their profiles. If the people requesting the removal of negative rep from support have left such revenge negative feedback on the other user's profile, they can get temporarily suspended as well. Giving them revenge feedback does not make you any better than them.

Considering all the above, I would like to ask users here to remove any feedback they have left on other people's profiles that does not follow the guidelines above. Any investigation done on the removal of negative feedback from now on will take this thread into account and the fact that everyone should have read it and complied with it. No appeals will be handled for temporary misuse of feedback suspensions, considering you had the time to remove it yourselves.


Since lots of people ask :

Request for removal of fake feedback is done through SG support here

Please attach some kind of proof of what happened if the comment doesn't contain an explanation.


Thank you for reading and good luck in your trades!


Edit : Considering the "Gives fake feedback"-like comments as acceptable. Still under discussion but looks like it will be added.

1 decade ago*

My impersonator: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ENOGAA

watch out he already scammed one user.

1 decade ago
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this guy is a impersonator and a scammer, has a lot of nicks of diferent people and he tried to scam a person with my id and sending my url

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198127912693/

here is the person who told me almost get scammed by him

http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/z7E1W/h-20-keys-w-titanfall

1 decade ago
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Revenge feedback from possible scammer

My profile: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Jaago

BloodyElfik gave false/revenge feedback after i gave neg.

Proof why i gave him -rep: http://oi57.tinypic.com/2wrqek5.jpg

1 decade ago
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Damn, i have an impersonator here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/eisbrecher76 beware.
I have edit my profile after i see this impersonator profile.

1 decade ago
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No trade was made because i did not wanted to go first. And he left me -rep for that LOL http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Eager

1 decade ago
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Revenge -rep from a possible scammer.

My profile:
http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Eager
His profile:
http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Premchand

I made an offer at his topic, i was waiting for hours for him to make an answer. Then i asked him politely to go 1st, since he got only keys to the games. He refused, and wanted me to go 1st with my items. I saw enough scammers to know where this could go, so i said no to the trade. After that he instantly deleted me from his friend list. I left a -rep on his profile to warn everyone about a possible scammer.

I added him a few minutes later, to talk about this revenge -rep. He just refused my friend request.

Thats all, have a good day.

1 decade ago
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Hahahaha possible scammer with steam level 30, almost 600 games and 100+ steam rep !!!! A true detective, how u found him ?
Now seriously, it is his right to not go first and cancel a possible trade for this. That dont justify a neg rep and moreover dont make him a scammer.

1 decade ago
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1st of all, if i spend 30-40 euro to get my steam level to 30, i wouldnt be a more trusted trader.
2nd thing, i never said he is a scammer, but he could actually scam me at the given time, thats why i said, the trade was fishy. I dont care if he got 1 game or 2k games, if the trade is fishy, i will never accept it, no matter what. And, again, I never said he is a scammer, i just warned the other traders that he might just decide to scam them whenever he feels like, cus "He got high profile leve/He got a lot of games/He is the god himself".

Edit: Please leave that 10 years old mentality at home. I wrote my reply to this topic, to ask for help, not to answer these kind of messages, Thanks in advance.

1 decade ago
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Anyway, the same thing he can tell about you too, cause u also didnt want to go first and u cancelled the trade.
And yes u called him possible scammer several times in your post above. A failed trade yes, a bad trader maybe, but a scammer for this reason definetely not.
And one last thing its like a "habit" here for the lower rep to go first!

Edit : Please learn to trade, but u ve got to be at least adult for that. The whole steamtrades forum is laughing with your behavior right now and u havent convinced anyone. Leave me a neg rep now for being a possible scammercause i dont want to trade with u and i ll not go first.

1 decade ago
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Well, im really happy to be able to talk with you, who represent the whole steam trades community as one! (sarcasm) And i am really happy that you have time to check the forum all day, and you feel the need to stick your nose into something that has nothing to do with you.
I have nothing else to say about the main point of my post. He could tell the same thing about me, but instead of that, he just raged out, deleted me from his friend list, gave me a -rep and wrote a "report" about my behaviour and ignored my friend request when i tried to talk with him about that. Thats a shame if you ask me. Have a nice day "Mr. hahaha guy" and have a good laugh.

1 decade ago
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Yeah yeah yeah... Every post more ridiculous than the previous, well done :)

1 decade ago
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Revenge Feedback from scammer :
http://www.steamtrades.com/user/wabket

screenshoot

http://puu.sh/7ccVo.png

http://puu.sh/7ccY2.png

http://puu.sh/7cd4W.png

he sell dayz revoked so i add him for talk to gve back key but he cant so i must do support

1 decade ago
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Watch out.
I have just been tricked. A person from Serbia has posed as MrAli and I was stupid enough to pay him through Paypal for BF4 Premium keys. 60 USD lost. I hope he's proud. Here's the URL to the con-artist's Steam page: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ENOGAA/

Paypal email: djoricdjordje@yahoo.com and djoricdjordje@hotmail.com, The name he wrote for his Paypal account: Djordje Djoric, Country: Serbia

He obviously read my post here asking about BF4 Premium and changed his Profile nick-name, and contacted me posing as the real MrAli.

I wasn't careful enough and this is a lesson for me.

1 decade ago
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Probably posted here before but this konyo42 guy scammed me today. I'm new to steamtrades so I don't know how things work around here. Anyway, he used this profile http://steamcommunity.com/id/hyguin019/ and tried to impersonate this guy http://steamcommunity.com/id/konyo42/. Did some background check on him and apparently he is a romanian piece of shit that likes to impersonate reputable traders. Please report him

1 decade ago
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He tried to scam me aswell!

konyo42: I'll buy the keys now, will invite you to trade right after received the gift http://www.steamtrades.com/user/konyo42

and: That's not you

and: your profile is private

konyo42: Yes, because it's my main account, it has been use as phising link

konyo42: I don't want to log in that account, because it will send virus link to my friend list.

and: Can you make a comment on streamtrades.com in my thread please? :)

konyo42: Yes, give me a sec

konyo42 är nu Offline.

1 decade ago
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Hi, found another impersonator:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/rbrate21

Would greatly apreciate if something can be done.

This user has given me negative feedback by mistake:
http://www.steamtrades.com/user/deadlyhydra

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamtrades.com/user/kevin10
This guy is a big time scammer. He is selling Goat Simulator and scamming people.
He even -rep me for no reason.

1 decade ago
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Just got suspended today and false feedback has been removed :) Now just needs a Steam ban.

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamtrades.com/user/afod
http://steamcommunity.com/id/nyfkeee/

Scammed me...
I was student in Turkey man.. ill hardly find that money why the people do that???? I was gonna buy bf4 premium and sell it to another man so i can make money for myself when studying in college... My stupid head... Now im sank.. This is very bad for me, i was already have less money situation but now....

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamtrades.com/user/afod http://steamcommunity.com/id/nyfkeee/ Scammed for battlefield 4 premium be care full guys .... he says that he got scammed. dont get into his trick never trade with him.

1 decade ago
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Waiting 2 weeks + already to get fake feedback removed -.-

1 decade ago
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THIS GUY IS IMPERSONATING ME , PLEASE REPORT HIM AND DONT TRADE WITH HIM , HE ALREADY SCAMMED ALOT OF PEOPLE WITH MY NAME
http://steamcommunity.com/id/ewr4wtfsdf/

1 decade ago
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WARNING! My impersonator - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198122419462. REPORT HIM!!! This retard change ID!

And, PLEASE, delete negative review in my profile, from MarcelID - he give negative rep because i wrote that he scammer. And from this treeHamster - i dont trade with him, he trade with impersonator.

1 decade ago
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Where admins???

1 decade ago
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Already 3 negative -_- What can i do?!?!?! Please, delete this, i dont trade with these people!

1 decade ago
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you can read the sticky at the top and submit a ticket like everyone else.

1 decade ago
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And generally, at least someone deleted undeserved negative reviews? I can write request by rules, but deleted them?

1 decade ago
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no idea wtf youre talking about

1 decade ago
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Where are the admins?

This guy has scammed a lot of people, and he still not getting banned.
Also he gives negatives if you report him. Someone has to do something NOW!!

I submited a ticket a month ago and nothing. It's frustrating.

1 decade ago
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User: nux

Reason: Other

URL: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Mew2/page/8

Notes: False negative feedback. I have never come into contact with this user, much less interacted with him/her. The only purpose of the creation of the account seems to be to leave fake feedback completely out of the blue.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/zsTKBbl.png

1 decade ago
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User: MarceID

Reason: Other

URL: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/marseloiooff/page/1

Notes: He wrote negative feedback only because i wrote that he is scammer.

1 decade ago
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Revenge reputation
User: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/mblr1/page/3
He already has 20 negative reviews and on every feedback he reacted revenge reputation.
Remove his negative review, please.

1 decade ago
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I just reported him in Steam Support. Do the same, if you just report him in his profile, that's not gonna work, believe me.

1 decade ago
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I just want to remove his negative rep in my profile. He did not steal anything at me, but tried...

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamgifts.com/user/mblr1

Report him here, and ask to remove your negative, its what I did.
I was in the same situation, he wanted to scam me, and he give me a negative for reporting that.

1 decade ago
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Waiting for more than a month. Is anybody reading this thread or steamgift?
His already blocked... Why not one his bad reviews not deleted?

1 decade ago
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I have never added the user brathorst, or here to attempt a trade, but this individual left negative feedback on my Steamtrades.com profile, viewable at the very top of here. In the feedback, I am reported as unreliable, although we never settled or even discussed a trade on Steam. Furthermore, I replied to this user's trade request on Steamtrades with a request for additional games that may interest him/her. This exchange is viewable near the bottom of here.

As I read the terms, this is a violation of the site's trade rules for feedback, viewable on this thread. Can this feedback be removed from my profile? I have already created a support ticket and a written a Steam report as well. Thank you for your time in advance, anyone with knowledge of the process.

1 decade ago
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There has still been no news regarding this.

9 years ago
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I'm stupid but I was cheated by him. He impersonated for bl4ckshades. He wrote to me then he agree to exchange TF2 keys. I said that was no actually and he proposed to buy form me one copy of DayZ. bl4ckshades have more reputation from me, so he got one copy from me, delete me and leave...

1 decade ago
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Put his profile right.

1 decade ago
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I send ticket to steam, he probably got ban

1 decade ago
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I mean that you must putt his profile, with numbers, that way, we all know who he is. To avoid him.

1 decade ago
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He didn't got ban :|

His profile is:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/asgafesfsfes

1 decade ago
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Good job, he tried to did it again + I have screen about old conversation

http://i59.tinypic.com/zxsbcl.jpg

http://i57.tinypic.com/9zn8yx.jpg

1 decade ago
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Seems I have a new impersonator : http://steamcommunity.com/id/snixxxx, please report this user.

1 decade ago
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User: [CL] goomis/ Scorpion X

Reason: Other

URL: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/ScorpionX , http://steamcommunity.com/id/scorpios17/

Notes: He msg me for trade ( Guild Wars 2 acc for Dark Souls 2 gift ) And after I gave him all info about this acc, he deleted me from friends and set his profile to private. (I have pics of all of ours talk but they're in polish)

1 decade ago
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i lose some keys i have in my inventory from som trades.... can i lose the keys how¿ i dont see in historial nothing.

1 decade ago
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User: Ipodrage
URL: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198057827040
Reason: Interfere and screw trades
Be aware with this piece of shit, he is lying and screwing all the trades that he finds. Block him!

1 decade ago
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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995149395/

Ask for Tropico 4 but change to Tropico 4 Complete after I bought the game, push me on purpose

1 decade ago
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I have two negatives from 2 different guys who I never traded before. This is my link of the negatives: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Khorosu/page/4

These are the two guys who I never traded:
I talked with this guy and we didnt get to a deal so I deleted him, he blocked me and put me a negative saying nonsense words. http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Galoon
I have never talked with this guy in my life and he put me a negative because he is a friend of the other guy, trying to put negatives for free. http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Bmyjam

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamtrades.com/user/ContinentalGamingAU

This user added me asking me to buy his games, completely unrelated to any post I've made. He then started spamming my chat. I simply said "blocked", and blocked him, all within a minute of him adding me. Later that day, he left falsified negative feedback on my profile. "Unfair trader... didnt give me a chance to offer him for keys.. -Rep"

Aside from being against the rules, it isn't very well written, and could be misconstrued as a scam. For obvious reasons, I don't want that tarnishing my profile.

I understand the rules technically makes my feedback against the rules as well, but it's purely to inform this user of his wrongdoing, and will be promptly removed after his false feedback is removed from my profile.

1 decade ago
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1 more Victim of Donatokoko

This one is left behind, he was late to make the report at the page :DD

The ID : http://www.steamtrades.com/user/yl4870/page/3

Thanks

Edit : Done.. the fake -Rep from Dona terrorrist has been removed ;)

1 decade ago
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Hi, i need help ,maybe a admin sees this message.

1 week ago i traded with this guy http://www.steamtrades.com/user/mblr1 ,all went well ,and after few hours he told me he want back his game,because he have a good offer for his game. i refused and he gave me negative feedback :(

Maybe is possible as an admin to delete my negative. Thanks

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamtrades.com/user/algaba97

This user give me -rep today after 1 moth when he try scamm me,i never trade again with this user, he is looking for revenged, you can see the next post and her repu, in the post are all screenshots

http://www.taringa.net/comunidades/steamtrade/8570459/Aviso-Scammer-algaba97.html

1 decade ago
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After 2 weeks,Anyone can help me please?

1 decade ago
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Hallo, I have a problem:

1

Negative

1 Review

Displaying 1 - 1 of 1 result.
HDGamerEesti (1 minute ago)

Wanted make deal, but wasting my time.. -REP!

Today he ask me a thing but I dont want to do this stuoid idea, its a trick and than he rate me from good to bad and change the commed on my profile, I have the conversation here:

15:50 - Jartsu: Can you buy a COD: Ghosts for me? :) Let's play this togethor then :)
15:50 - Jack95Sparrow™: And u give me 60€?
15:50 - Jartsu: Later sure I think
15:50 - Jartsu: I don't have right now
15:51 - Jartsu: money
15:51 - Jack95Sparrow™: But I cant play with u
15:52 - Jartsu: Why ?
15:52 - Jack95Sparrow™: Only 4 players
15:52 - Jartsu: Buy that and send gift for me :). We can do CO-OP or something
15:52 - Jartsu: I will send u later 60€
15:52 - Jack95Sparrow™: yes coop with my 3 friends with me 4
15:52 - Jartsu: But, let's later play togethor then
15:52 - Jartsu: Without your friends :S
15:53 - Jack95Sparrow™: I only play with friends because when not talking its boring
15:53 - Jartsu: But buy me :)? I will give u 60€
15:53 - Jack95Sparrow™: Im not a gamer Im only a man who playes sometimes
15:53 - Jartsu: :D
15:53 - Jack95Sparrow™: Pls ask a real friend
15:54 - Jartsu: :(
15:54 - Jartsu: Give your Steamrep page again
15:54 - Jack95Sparrow™: this is not legal
15:54 - Jartsu: I -REP u
15:54 - Jack95Sparrow™: Im ok
15:55 - Jartsu: Okay, I -REP u
15:55 - Jartsu: With 10+ friends
15:55 - Jack95Sparrow™: No Im ok
15:55 - Jack95Sparrow™: U cant give me 10 friends xD
15:55 - Jartsu: I mean, I give u -REP
15:55 - Jartsu: Look
15:55 - Jartsu: U got 1 already
15:56 - Jack95Sparrow™: ?
15:56 - Jack95Sparrow™: one trade
15:56 - Jartsu: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/jack95sparrow
15:56 - Jack95Sparrow™: one trade
15:56 - Jack95Sparrow™: I only need REP when I do a trade
15:56 - Jartsu: I know.
15:56 - Jartsu: Noone not doing trade with u
15:56 - Jartsu: If I -REP u
15:57 - Jack95Sparrow™: I report u
15:57 - Jartsu: Good luck

I have a screenshot too.

1 decade ago
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From that conversation, I can tell that he tried to scam you and after it didn't work he - repped you. Give him a negative feedback and explain in the review that he tried to scam you.

Then submit a ticket through http://www.steamgifts.com/support/new to have the fake negative review that he left you removed. It is going to take a while until support services your ticket though, because they are very busy.

Good luck and congrats on not falling for that person's scam.

1 decade ago
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According to my observations write ticket generally useless. My problem solved for the second month and all the time - no reply.

A feeling that on steamgift all died...

1 decade ago
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This use: http://steamcommunity.com/id/283718957198/
is impersonating:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Xzack/

He has tried to scam a couple of people so far.

1 decade ago
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/konyo359/

He's trying to impersonate user Konyo42. I just got scammed like a noob, I don't want others to be scammed as well by this loser.

1 decade ago
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Yeah, got scammed by him as well when I started trading, I was a huge idiot. I still don't get why this piece of shit is walking around free scamming people

1 decade ago
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hi, look this little kid

http://www.steamtrades.com/user/batmobile56

he and some of his friends are trading Battlefield 4 codes which are fraudulents and ilegals, he -rep on me, i did the same

i even created a topic in Taringa.net, bewaring all my friends of this problem

http://www.taringa.net/comunidades/steamtrade/8695568/Off-Topic-Battlefield-4-siendo-Removido-de-cuentas-OJO.html#comment-545987

http://i.gyazo.com/04c3ad674f875e4336ca34abadf2676f.png

thats the screenshot which EA agent told me that the key is fraudulent

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamtrades.com/user/batmobile56

this guy has tried to impersonator for a friend called " SoyHumano1 "

1 decade ago
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Got scammed by this creep: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198116665086
At least he chose a proper nick name for a scammer.

1 decade ago
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Me too, just a few hours! Now he is Fratello LFT

1 decade ago
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ALERT ROBBER

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198114051599 This guy added me and told me that he will give Titanfall key, so I payed him 26.48 USD and got nothing and he also changed from http://steamcommunity.com/id/xMrdoggiez/ to http://steamcommunity.com/id/AcTiv_2/ ... but still the same ID and removed me from friend list.

1 decade ago
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BE CAREFUL with this guy:
http://www.steamtrades.com/user/TheFjose2014
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Dominican-Legacy/

Tried to trick me, could not and disappeared then.
Did a nice move, doing real trades before try to trick me... But i'm not fool than he thinks... lol

Scammer!!

1 decade ago
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I think this is a misunderstanding...

But... someone on my friendlist just give me an explanation about this

well k.. k... I will edit later.... can't do now....

because....I'm pretty busy right now

Edit :

Special Thanks to kingx69 for your time and explanation :)

Chatlog with kingx69 http://i.imgur.com/OWD7AE9.jpg -- sadly i was missing the first part of chatlog (dissappeared from chat box) // if Mr. King has the first part of the chatlog, pls upload here

Steam Store U.K. https://i.imgur.com/mPSKKgT.jpg

Steam Store Brazil https://i.imgur.com/00p91zu.jpg

Silent Hill Homecoming in U.K. & Brazil Steam Store https://i.imgur.com/KPLrbct.jpg

So I am not completely right about this, my apologies to you WolfGunsQcLemon

1 decade ago
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Got 2 negative reps:

One is from a guy who claimed I scammed him when I never traded with him (also, he is a scammer)

The other one is saying "Noob trader" which is Misusing the feedback + again I never traded with him

9 years ago
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Beware Impersonator Me !

User : Zeitsu
My Real Profile : http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198116799644
Impersonator Profile : http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197996760399

9 years ago
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Found another impersonator, unfortunately I fell for his scam :|

Original user: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197987516497/

Impersonator: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198046840233/

9 years ago
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User: LodanZark

Reason: Other

URL: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Mew2/page/8

Notes: False negative feedback. Abuse of the SteamTrades reputation system.

9 years ago
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Closed 8 years ago.