Sad Times...Any solutions?

I just avoid all that crap. I only trade cards.

Only 5-10 phishing invites? You're lucky :P

I remember people selling humblebundles bought with stolen cards

I get around 5 a day. No doubt because I display my most valuable items on my profile, but I won't let beggars influence what gets displayed and what doesn't. Thank god there's no limit to block lists.

Also, trading items is completely safe. Anything that disappears can be un-traded and you will get your original items back. Steam gifts are more risky, but still relatively safe as long as you are using the Steam trading window. Agreements made through third party services (such as paypal), is where the risk increases.

I get around 4 and I don`t even have very good items =/

Just be alert at all times, it's pretty easy to spot scammers if you get the hang of it. Always compare profiles and check links they give. If they have too low rep and you are scared, don't trade. Better to take precaution.

It's the internet, trust no one. NO one.

Yeah I'm getting a lot of phishing links and it's really annoying.

• I also have an impersonator and he's been actively scamming, changing their profile picture and name a few minutes after I changed mine, and he's successfully scammed a few people, targeting newbs so they didn't even bother to check my real profile... added -rep on my SteamTrades I've had to track down to remove too, sad times indeed

aren't you the guy who sold ultra-cheap humble bundles which got revoked after some time? and now you complain about other scammers? really?

I have started using the "Report User" button in Steam.

The steam messages are apparently coming becuase you're in the same group as the bot, so they can message you

as soon as you bump the bot adds you or joins a group you're in, sends the message, and leaves.

If someone gets phished they become a bot too. It's like a goddamn zombie invasion.

Do your part - screencap, report to steam, then report the phishing link to google. Kill a zombie today!

Hmm... I was offered 10$ on paypal for some TF2 stuff. My very quick research seemed to look that was totally overvalued for the items...

Didn't even try to pursuit it...

I'm really lucky, only gotten scammed once and 0 phishing links.

Put a notice in your ST topics that you require people to post a reply, otherwise you will ignore their steam invites. Works for me, although there are a ton of people that don't read and you'll have to click that ignore button (it actually feels kinda good after a while).