Sounds great.
At the moment all you can do is change/update your avatar and put some text in it.
Effective but hardly intuitive or user friendly.
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This is a good idea I was got by a scammer :/ Wish this was already added
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but by the time you discover you're being impersonated it's already too late
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Maybe, but the way the exploit works is by showing someones feedback page and then doing the impersonation through Steam.
If you can add some text on SG's, it might be enough to avoid most of the scamming.
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yes and no, if it takes sometime for Steam support to handle the issue, you might stop other people getting scammed.
Alternatively/additionally SG could add an alarm button other users could activate (which is better than having a negative feedback for something you're not responsible for). Users gets a message to his email and can search on Steam for impersonator and confirm (or not) the alarm.
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Only if SG would send max 3 mails otherwise there is a huge risk of someone getting spammed maybe even if there is no real impersonator by someone trying to be funny or a troll
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one email for x hours would be enough. you search for your username on Steam, check if someone also uses the same avatar.
(ideally someone develops such a tool to do this step automatically every hour or so)
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I'd certainly be all in for a compulsory warning/pop up, when trying to enter steamgifts-trades > showing how to check up on users by just clicking that link right below the pic that brings them to the right steam profile - as scammers will try to fool them like that (and a link to steamrep ... "notorious" scammers).
Been impersonated once only (to my knowledge ...) added the steam lvl and icon to my pic to make it more unique
(doubt that helps much) - saw someone who had this [pic] and i followed suit - wouldn't be surprised if users were
to get scammed still ... anyway, this makes it less attractive for impersonation.
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title says it all.
This would be an easy step. Just add some small text box, where you can put some warning when you are being impersonated would already help.
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