Seriously, F**K YOU STEAM.

Just set your profile on private! Don't do trades! And you are safe!

Well that's an automated report system for you. Anyone can report you without any proof and as long as he gets enough people to do the same, you will get flagged. I hope it disappears soon, but i doubt it will get in the way of trades too much... i mean your profile doesn't look like a scammer in any way XD. And what scammer would giveaway so many games. Anyone with a bit of brain and searching will see that you are not a scammer.

Steam f*cks you back

I got permabanned from trading for no reason and after weeks and weeks of explaining, begging and negotiating I got my account unbanned.

Happened to me that I had to trade with a guy like that and I didn't really care. I know how to trade thank you very much, I can decide for myself if a trade is dangerous to perform or not.

Of course Steam cannot investigate trades like that and scams, there are people who decide on trades on different platforms, they could decide on Skype that the person will give him real money in exchange for an item and then after the person trades on Steam, suddenly he disappears and the other person doesn't get money. If Steam does try to investigate it, it would be meaningless, they can only check their own records, even if they have your chat records, they won't see your trade details as those were agreed upon in a different place. Someone could just give you an item and then accuse you of scamming them for no reason, there are a lot of clever assholes who do all kinds of shit to different people. Reporting those people and tagging them as scammers is the best way to help people be careful when trading stuff that Steam cannot promise that you'll receive, such as real money.

If you're dealing with regular trading and just trading Steam inventory items, you've got nothing to worry about even if you do have this flag on your account, but when you do stuff beyond that it's your own risk and your own problems, because Steam isn't meant to support your alternative trading habits.

A lot of scammers are from Russia because for some reason that country has some horrible people and manners, they all have dash cams in their cars because people would jump under cars just to get insurance money and people started installing the cams just to prove that they didn't do anything wrong, it was the person jumping under the car on purpose. Another scam I heard of is that someone would drop a wallet on purpose and then when another person would pick it up, they would blame the person for stealing their money and force them to pay. Honestly what is up with Russia?

Main point is, just move on, ignore that message if you're trading normally and fairly and it'll go away after a while. Your case isn't special and there are many of those going around, the system isn't the most efficient, but a lot of other solutions aren't good either.

You're lucky. For some people who inquire about the reports pop-up, Valve support will trade ban them outright.

i had this 2 times already. it doesn't mean anything. it will go away after a while, and with a good amount of rep you shouldn't have too much of a hard time with your trades. :)

Got the same thing, survived a middleman scam some days later marked, went to Steam and ticket closed automatically.

Sorry to hear that. I had to deal with Steam support once about my Steam Wallet problems, and that was resolved quickly and cleanly.

I really hope that as GoG puts pressure with their Galaxy client, so Steam and Valve start thinking about user support and other problems Steam has right now.

I personally don't have issues with Steam, but that doesn't mean I don't want them solved.

That sucks! :| You will just have to wait for 3 weeks and also, give a note on your profile about it so people won't go to the point and say "Oh crap, a scammer, *cancels trade with you"

Thanks for all the replies. I sure am glad this scammer thing is nothing to worry about.

The system Steam put in place leaves much to be desired. They actually TRUST the community to make the right kind of report.