Scammed, Wat do?

Ah well, off to steamrep it is then.

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Aquillion

Also, this might be obvious, but don't have all your friends report him on steamrep. That's not allowed, since it breaks the system to have someone flagged extra-hard as a repeat scammer just because you happen to have a lot of friends.

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I see, could i perhaps do it directly through the steam client?

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Aquillion

What I mean is, reporting them on Steamrep (and other reputation sites like that) is sufficient.

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Very well, although it will probably take a few more scam reports for him to be finally banned.

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SteamRep.com doesn't ban users

Steam would give ban trades for bad trades over the window, but a key won't result in that.

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Arpione

Actually it does. Some guy got scammed out of 2 of his Humble Origin Bundle keys (yes, bundle keys) by an impersonator. The scammer used my name and avatar, and sent my steamtrades profile to the guy. He reported me instead of the scammer and guess what, Steam Support gave me a trade ban based on a screenshot of the chat window, no chat log check or anything.

Still couldn't get them to actually do some checks, they either paste some template answer or say that they can't assist me (it seems to me they just refuse to do any actual work). Even the scammed guy asked them to remove my ban after I explained to him what happened, support said they're investigating.

So far I only heard rumors that they suck but this is ridiculous.

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Oh man. Seems they can't do anything right. Get the right scammer, 'We don't do anything about you losing keys, we tell users not to use them in trading".

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Arpione

I talked to someone who got a trade ban for no reason and the only way he could get it removed is to talk directly to a support member through one of his friends, and even the support guy couldn't tell him why he got the ban. It seems you can't get anything done right unless you know someone inside.

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orpi

try this

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IT IS DONE

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Live with it, learn from it, and dump key everywhere, so at least he might not profit.

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already tried that, within 5 minutes it was a duplicate product key :(

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MaximumBunny

Take screenshots of your conversation with this user. Make a support ticket. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2102640 Report them to steamrep.com. And in the future don't go first or trade keys at all to/from randoms.

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I'm in the process of reporting them on steamrep, but can you be a little more specific on making a Steam support ticket? Also, I usually never do, but the deal was (in retrospect) too good to be true, and he duped me.

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MaximumBunny

Go to http://support.steampowered.com/ and make a new ticket. Tell them you traded a game key and were supposed to get a gift, but the guy scammed you. Provide a screenshot of your dialogue with this person and a link to their profile to prove that there was a transaction between you 2.

Then he gets trade banned. That's about it. It's all dependent on you having proof of your transaction with him though, which you may or may not have.

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TRUCKER

afaik steam doesn't investigate key trades.

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MaximumBunny

They do when you have sufficient evidence for the transaction. It's more important for them to reduce the amount of scammers than to scold you for doing something they said not to.

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i believe they can see user chats however ;) something gabe failed to mention to us ;)

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Vapourizer

Where did you get your key from?

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Traded for it from a reputable guy I'd traded with before. Steamtrades is a good site for all that.

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WilliWuerstchen

Re-Trading Gamekeys? Uargh =X

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smutsig

conctact steam and report the keys so they can make them useless, i did that once when i got scammed.

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Unfortunately it has already been redeemed, could they make it invalid?

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They might. You wouldn't get it back of course, but they would lose it.

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Good enough for me, as long as he can't use it.

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WAT DO ? yabadabadoooooooooooooo :P

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Indeed, friend. Wise words.

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what i am really wondering is ... what DID you trade black cocks for? (even if he didnt give it what was of greater value? )

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deal was too good to be true, as i said before. he said he had a $100 steam wallet code, i was offering black ops 2 + total war rome 2 for it.

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TRUCKER

He had a steam wallet code? And you blame him for loosing the key?

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TheDopefish

"steam wallet code" there's your problem

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and why would he give the game to you for 40$+ than the actual games value? what would he gain?

gj there mate!

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Cerein

if steam would just allow you to redeem keys as gifts this would all get a lot safer for everybody

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