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*

I'm not sure if this is the right place, but this thread seems rather fishy.
Maybe someone can take a look at it and decide?

1 decade ago
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This guy just scammed me.. he said he will trade one tf2 key for the game. I gave him the cd key and then he said the key is duplicate when i told its in his account, he went offline, removed me and made his profile private. Since its a cd key scam, steamRep wont be able to do anything.. actually no one can do anything in this .. i just learned a lesson and that is good since i didnt loose much.

anyways here is his steamprofile link - http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198059842104

| steamname: tomoya4
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:49788188
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198059842104
| customURL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/tomoya4
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198059842104

1 decade ago
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I just get scamed from her u.u
She scammed me a Guncraft and a Larva Mortus key
I'm dope :P

1 decade ago
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yea this guy is a serious scammer.. he is going around with 2 steam id's scamming people for game keys and steam rep cant do anything about it, even tho i have all the screenshots and proof.

1 decade ago
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I've added somebody for a trade and after he wanted me to go first even though i had much more reputation then him. Then he decided i tried to scam him and gave me a long review on my profile why people shouldn't trade with me and spammed the word SCAM about 200 times right after it. Is the any way to prove this nonsense? My profile: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/ShetMuncher His profile: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Austinomical

1 decade ago
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I have impersonator, I made report on steamrep

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Impersonator

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If someone can ban him, that would be great

1 decade ago
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Scammer: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/vanzemljak/page/1 This scammer uses his rep to gain trust. Because of his rep Vanzemljak ask you to start the trade. After avoiding his turn to trade he removed me as a friend and blocked me.

1 decade ago
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You do realize that is not me? Check report I made on steam rep and you will understand.

1 decade ago
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Scammer: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/vanzemljak/page/1
This scammer uses his rep to gain trust. Because of his rep Vanzemljak ask you to start the trade. After avoiding his turn to trade he removed me as a friend and blocked me.

1 decade ago
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Scammer: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/vanzemljak/page/1
This scammer uses his rep to gain trust. Because of his rep Vanzemljak ask you to start the trade. After avoiding his turn to trade he removed me as a friend and blocked me.

1 decade ago
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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198032252600/
[W] 2 BOX IN CS:GO [H] -50% Costume Quest, -66% Faerie Solitaire, -50% Awesomenauts, -90% Krate

1 decade ago
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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198032252600/
[W] 2 BOX IN CS:GO [H] -50% Costume Quest, -66% Faerie Solitaire, -50% Awesomenauts, -90% Krate

1 decade ago
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/Phai5nake/

This person is impersonating me and apparently successfully scammed a couple of people :( please be warned

1 decade ago
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Please delete my negative rep, I didn't even trade with that person.

1 decade ago
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I have an impersonator who has scammed people before, although they appear to have switched their Steam name to Elrond9 now. Same cow photo though. Always check, people!

1 decade ago
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Yes, he scammed me... :-/

1 decade ago
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And now they're back to using my name.

1 decade ago
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He used my name too. thanks to AKQJ10Please i learned stuation and add information to my account.

Second time this is happen to me. Always try to create clean profile but this impersonators try to broke it.

If anybody get scammed from him please report him to steam. I hope he will get trade ban.

1 decade ago
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He just added me, I'm soooo excited to mess with him!

1 decade ago
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Also Elrond he is still using your name!

1 decade ago
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He changing his name always. Still scam people even he got scammer alert in Steamrep.

Look: http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/YasFy/scammer-reaver

1 decade ago
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lol, he used my name too. WTF with this guy?

1 decade ago
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Finally he has trade banned from steam. Anybody know steam give trade ban permenantly or is it has time period.

1 decade ago
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I have a guy give me fake positive rep, and seems he is giving fake positive rep to other people and receiving it in return.

This may seem harmless to some, but it is dishonest and could lead to him getting high reputation and then scamming people, this is his profile

1 decade ago
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They have done the same to me. I've requested they remove the fake rep off of my profile, but I've gotten no response. I think you're right, though; it seems like something a scammer would do.

1 decade ago
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This guy keeps spamming because I gave him a bad rep, because he scammed me.
The trade was me giving 3 TF2 keys for MOH Warfigther instead he gave me the normal MOH from the Origin bundle and deleted me as friend on steam.
Now he spams my post and has given me a bad rep too.

Please do something about him :/

His profil: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/naord15

My post: http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/I9uCN/w-medal-of-honor-warfighter-h-game-keys

1 decade ago
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Stay away from this THIEF called LIETUVIS (or many other names) http://steamcommunity.com/id/Radzis/ (yesterday was http://steamcommunity.com/id/goblinas223/ , don't know tomorrow) or http://www.steamtrades.com/user/Lietuvis

Here the proofs: http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/scammer-fouled-me.41999/

1 decade ago
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Stay away from this THIEF called TwiggyAsh (or many other names) http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197980284925 or http://www.steamtrades.com/user/TwiggyAsh

1 decade ago
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Hi, I'm Hell and I wanted to warn you about one man. He scammed me and I don't want that he can scam somebody else. http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011676617
Here's prove (sorry, steam is in my local language).
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/kjxr.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/153/o99e.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/821/jb9k.jpg/
Cheers guys!

1 decade ago
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Scammer :http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011676617 I gave key first then he went offline and blocked me.Stay away from this scammer.

1 decade ago
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Same here... I have been scammed by this guy http://steamcommunity.com/id/Phai5nake/

I gave him a key and he didn't send me anything.

1 decade ago
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http://www.steamtrades.com/user/huanghuooo Tried to sell me RU torclight 2 gift, said 'it is region free'
I deleted him, trade not happened. But he give me negative rep couse I didn't beleived and traded.
So: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/gonzales

Proof: http://s8.postimg.org/4sy375d51/proof.png

1 decade ago
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Ok here goes. I got a request from a guy names AloX (Read L not I) and was offering me some games for my crysis 3 key.

I asked him to make his profile private and he said he will once we finalize on deal. After that I asked for the steamtrades profile and he linked me to original user.

Original User AloX (Read L) - http://www.steamtrades.com/user/AloXX

Now the steam ID for original user as per steamtrades is - 76561197989665581

Now the impostor had made same profile with same avatar and all but the profile is closed. So here are few other evidence -

Original ID - 76561197989665581 , Fake ID - 76561198104077719

Original Link - http://steamcommunity.com/id/AloXX/ (Read L not I)

Fake Link - http://steamcommunity.com/id/AIoXX/ ( Read I not L)

So please be wary of this dude and admins please notify the users and if possible ban this guy.

Thanks

From my post - http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/ZvtPl/impostor-alert-aioxx-steam-id-76561198104077719

1 decade ago
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Scammed me as well. I got a thread on it. Hopefully they're taking care of it. And I'm watching him.

1 decade ago
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Found a scammer who pretended to be another user.
The scammer http://steamcommunity.com/id/AIoXX/
The real user http://steamcommunity.com/id/AloXX

1 decade ago
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I just recently noticed that 1 hour before this post, I received a negative feedback comment on my steam trades account from a user that I put negative rep on 2 weeks ago for attempting to scam me with PayPal & Steam games. It was obvious, due to their current reputation, that I wasn't the only one that had a scam attempted on them from this user, so I felt it was necessary to place this feedback, along side the other negative rep already posted on their profile for future warning. All this user has is negative rep

| steamname: mishelxz3021

| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:67074255

| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198094414238

| customURL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/mishelxz3021

| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198094414238

Please have this negative comment on my profile removed as it is clearly retaliation rep from an attempted scam that didn't go the user's way. Not to mention any other user that has 'Negative' rep from this user.

1 decade ago
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He revenge repped me too. Should be banned. And please remove all the neg reps he left on users who neg repped him

1 decade ago
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Scam alert

http://www.steamtrades.com/user/mishelxz3021

Do not even try to trade with this guy. And he'll revenge rep you. Stay away from him

| steamname: mishelxz3021
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:67074255
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198094414238
| customURL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/mishelxz3021
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198094414238

1 decade ago
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This guy is famous Impersonator!
| steamname: Kost
| steamID32: STEAM_0:1:25705444
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011676617
| customURL:
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198011676617

He took my nickname some days ago and scammed a lot of people.

http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/76561198011676617-legnar.42124/

This dude thinks that i'm a real scammer and he don't want to read what i try to say him. http://www.steamtrades.com/user/zerberus
So, he gave me a negative rep and create a thread about me http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/fD6nb/scammer, but he is don't want to hear that he made a mistake.

I have some proves in this thread that i don't trade with him and i have impersonator who used my nickname. http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/fD6nb/scammer

Can someone remove this negative rep from my profile?

1 decade ago
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I submitted this request 3 days ago to the steamgifts support but still no word or anything about the false negative rep removal. Anyway I was wondering if someone can help get it off my profile? I copied the report below:

To whom it may concern:

I recently got a comment on my steamtrades profile by user Phaseweb simply saying "Got scammed by him." I sent a friend request to this guy trying to clarify with him that I have never even spoken with him, let alone even try and scam him. He added me sometime while I was asleep so when I woke up in the morning I left the following comments in our chat (see below image):

http://i.imgur.com/AmcpkGw.jpg

If we had spoken with each other in the past, you would have seen our past chat log which is clearly not there. He didn't even reply and while I was at work he must have removed me from his friends list. I have made my best effort to try and rectify this situation, but this guy is just not cooperating whatsoever.

If you need me to provide anything further, I am willing to do so. Thanks for your help.

edit: link below to this steam & steamtrades profile:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011273261

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

1 decade ago
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HEllo!
This guy impersonated me: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198047190649/
My profile: http://steamcommunity.com/id/petyob/
I got 3 -rep because of this guy.

1 decade ago
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I traded with this person:

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198040182788/

we came to an arrangement, my mirrors edge for his metro last light ranger mode

i gave him my key, and then he disconnected, after 1 minute, came back online and told me had internet problems. he went offline again. then he deleted me.

So don't make deals with him!!

1 decade ago
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I just got scammed at the first trade. I'm not mad, it's my own fault but here is how it came to this, so it might help others:

  • It started simple with someone who changed his steam profile name to someone who has some rep here at the forum. I rejected that one.
  • The next time it was an actual profile which linked to a fake domain called www.steamtrades.co with a fake profile on it. I also rejected this one
  • The third time it was an obviously bought and/or otherwhise obtained account. I didnt got that at the time because i just came home from a party and, err, where quite drunk. It was probably the same guy as the times before (Which is the only thing i'm somewhat mad about this).

However, i have the feeling there's an incredible amount of scam around here.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198046516802/

EDIT:
It seems that this is quite an common scammer. However i did some research and found his domain registrar. You may fill an abuse letter for steamtrades.co here: http://www.enom.com/help/AbusePolicy.aspx

They might disable the domain if they got various requests, maybe even hand out a contact information. But i doubt the last one.

1 decade ago
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Neg rep him and report him. He scammed me and at least 3 others as well.

http://www.steamtrades.com/trade/m3SO4/warning-scammer-alert-mothachicken-httpsteamcommunitycomprofiles76561198046516802

Report him to Steamrep, Steamgifts support.

1 decade ago
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Be careful when trading with a user with the current steam name of "pnevroq". He is an impersonator of the real steam account pnevroq. The scammer has had past names of: pnevroq, Thorded, sdfsdfgsdf, tyrtgh, fgd, ccock, vagina, Thordred, Luderpik, and Legend. His steam URL is http://steamcommunity.com/id/pnevrqo . Here is the evidence: http://gyazo.com/618c9777008387a58507e1534ef4af8e. His profile is currently private. PLEASE DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THIS IMPERSONATOR. I am a recent victim (only $2.49 scammed but still pissed) and do not want anyone else to be scammed by this loser. Here is the link to the REAL pnevroq: http://steamcommunity.com/id/pnevroq

1 decade ago
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another impersonator of me : http://steamcommunity.com/id/legendsofedge be careful!!!!

1 decade ago
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Hi i wanted to trade a game with a user called "Pick-A-Choo" http://steamcommunity.com/id/retardedmon/ and he is a scammer, i gave him the key and he didnt gave me the steam gift, here are the screens. http://prntscr.com/1qg0dr

i saw a rep he had, and all the people said he was a good trader.

I just want my game. T.T

1 decade ago
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This guy is an impersonator http://steamcommunity.com/id/pshycoblIad3/

Hes impersonating this user : http://steamcommunity.com/id/pshychoblad3/
And using his steamrep profile to get trust : http://www.steamtrades.com/user/pshycoblad3/

Also he was using this alias : [POOP] Adam Worth
Impersonating this guy : http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970342769

He said he can transfer funds from his wallet to Mine, and tried to convince me to send him the item first.
Screenshot of the chat : http://i42.tinypic.com/2jfb1gx.jpg

1 decade ago
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Thanks for your help

1 decade ago
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My first impersonator, he already tried to scam a person here on steamtrades, but failed. Please block him on steam for your own protection.

1 decade ago
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PaUx's Impersonator. -> http://steamcommunity.com/id/PaUxx/ -> steam id : STEAM_0:1:50473044

1 decade ago
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Someone is impersonating steam user foysp. He just tried to pull a paypal scam on me for SR4.

1 decade ago
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1 decade ago
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This guy wanted to scam me but failed.

impersonator: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ghixx1928/

impersonating this user: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197995294485

1 decade ago
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Same with me. He tried to scam me, and when I didn't fell for it, he blocked me and gave me negative rep, acusing ME of scamming him.

1 decade ago
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Reporting an Impersonator:
Someone is impersonating Nicktim #True.
Impersonator's profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198107379347
Real Nicktim #True prolife: http://steamcommunity.com/id/itsnicktim/

Reporting a scammer: Imperialz
Steamtrades profile: http://www.steamtrades.com/user/imperialz
Steam profiles (he uses 2):
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Imperialz/
http://steamcommunity.com/id/narutoawesome

He offers expensive games for common ones, and even show the games in his inventory. But he asks you to give him your keys first.
He also gave me negative rep and acused me of scamming him. (I have sent a request to have that rep removed, but had no answer so far).

1 decade ago
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I have put a negative vote. Do not worry, it's a person who changed it a Guncraft (Desura) for a card of Counter Strike: GO and now requires that I gave away the key to steam BY THE FACE! Also was angry because I think it's a boy or something. I want to delete this negative please

1 decade ago
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Here is the scammer that took me a key of The Showndown Effect and then returned a wrong key of Just Cause 2. There is also another person that had a situation like me. Please see in his profile on steamtrade:

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

| steamname: WAZZEEEE | steamID32: STEAM_0:0:61835684
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198083937096
| customURL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/WZZZPT
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198083937096

Here is my proof
http://postimg.org/image/wm4v66x8t/
http://postimg.org/image/fsju7nxmj/

Please ban him from steamtrade!

1 decade ago
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Closed 8 years ago.