what's the scam?

I appreciate that these clowns always try to scam those people with more games on their accounts first. ;)

Most probably a scam, had it happen today but just ignored the friend invite. Guy really wanted to trade atleast "one time" though which is suspicious (he wrote that in profile comment) funny thing is I havent traded for years now and don't have any trades active on any site.

I have a bazillion publicly visible tradables and received something like this once or twice. I didn't try talking to the people/bots.

Curious to know what they actually want.

Scam you of your game keys and inventory items. As simple and sinister as that.

A few things I did helped curb getting these spam messages:

1. Set inventory to private.
2. Set profile wall so it's not public for commenting.
3. Not accept random friend requests from complete strangers. If you know them from a trade or recent interaction, that's a different story.
4. Avoid certain game discussion forums in which these scammers skulk. You can guess which by seeing which games have items much sought after; so much so that they have set up trading websites off Steam for them.

Stay safe.

This is almost the only scam people try on me. It's pretty much the exact same text and their profiles are low level and always have trash/few/free games.

As they say on Steam forums "Block and move on".

Got them too a few months ago. Please be aware to never trade and immediately report them. They scam people of gifts from Humble.

I can imagine they send you fake humble bundle gift links that lead to a pishing site to get your credentials.

I did have some guy messaging me with very similar text. I mean naturally I just filter it to be spam either way but he was very persistent.
Kept on saying he will send the key first (over email, no gift links). Had a list of games he has already ready. Also a list of games he wanted. Asks me to choose which games would I want in return for one specific. At least almost made me believe :D Had a decent preparation and didn't really have some unrelated links or whatever.

I answered him now and then to see what he wants, but eventually stopped. Then he came back after a month or two with same text but with different list of games :D Asked him what's up with that, he said that he traded some already :D

But I suppose he got bored with me as I didn't give him any emails or keys.

I've seen a few messages just like this as well over the past handful of months.

Anything that requires you to effortfully go out of your way with an arm and limb to satisfy their needs is a most definitely a scam, such as:
"Hey, fakegamer#69 here, I recently join x esports league, can you vote for my y team at z (phishing scam link) for dota2/csgo/valorant?"

"Hi, I am looking to unlock poker night at the inventory items for team fortress 2, and noticed that you have it in your library, may I have them by you providing your details (phishing scam)"

"Heya, My name is femboybait#420, I am new to steam, Idk how to level up my steam profile, can you please spare some badge sets to lvl up (begging scam)"

"Hi, my name is Indiedeveloper#225, I would like you to promote x game on your profile, just click on z(phishing scam link) and have it featured on your profile thanks"

It's honestly amazing how Discord can have pending invites yet steam still doesn't have like a message request feature on why you are adding them without the need to commenting on their profile. General rule of thumb is to never add under lvl 10s and nickname everyone you know personally.