ive traded with someone before but i traded keys for amount of there steam wallet money such as with there money they would buy the games i wanted in gifts and we would trade through steam trade with no problem so all steam wallet posts are not scammers or have i misunderstand this ?
he mean's directly transferring funds from one wallet to another. which is what these scammers are implying they are doing.
No, that's a perfectly valid way to do a trade. If someone's trading you "Steam wallet" by buying you an item for an agreed upon amount and then trading it to you for your item, you're fine. But someone who tries to tell you they'll send money directly to your Steam wallet is almost certainly a scammer, because there's no safe way to do that.
ah right i see thanks mate ill keep a look out then and thanks for clearing it up i misunderstood the post ;)
So, there seems to be a new twist on an old scam going around, and I thought a quick warning to the community here might be in order.
Old version: user says they'll trade you Steam wallet funds for an item/game/whatever, types "/me has transferred $X.XX to your Steam Wallet" (producing a very official looking chat message), and then tells you to hand over the item. Steam nerfed this scam by removing the /me chat feature.
New version: user sends you one of those fancy newfangled official "Trade Offers" wherein they put an official looking message like "$X.XX will be transferred to your Steam Wallet balance." in the text box, accompanying a trade offer with your valuable item and nothing on their end. You accept the trade, they get your item, you get nothing.
To boil it down, there is no scam-proof way to transfer Steam wallet funds from one user to another in a trade. The day such a feature is implemented, I can guarantee it will be big news and the consequences will be discussed ad nauseum on forums like this one. Until then, do not believe anyone who tells you otherwise.
I just ran into someone trying (unsuccessfully :P) to run this scam on me, and when I went to report them on Steamrep I noticed a bunch of similar reports, so apparently it's the new trick of choice for scammers. One slight oddity is that they seem to be coming from slightly more legit-looking accounts than your garden variety scammers, with some service time/Steam level/games on the account, etc. Not sure if they're phished accounts or doing a better job of looking like real accounts, but whatever. Stay safe out there!