Any offer to trade inventory for real money should be taken as a scam.
And the trade confirmation mail you get from Steam is something confidential between you and Steam. the other side of the trade has no business with that.
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I asked with just scientfic theoritical and non-practical interest. I never traded for real money before
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he want something from you ...
better way let him pay you and you send item
other way your risk and if we talk about a high value item you should not do it
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Ah now that sounds plausible :D
I went full paranoid above there :D
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if he sends him that email, won't that sly fox know his account email address and try to claim or hack his steam account using such privileged information? Or try to hack his email for both ends?
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To me it seems like he's just trying to get your email.
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do u know, can he confirm trade instead of me? is this 100% info?
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i tried this with my friend recently. i am just confirmed his offer and got his item, so yes, DO NOT tell your confirmation email / links in this email / email adress you are using / etc
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that's why I proposed him to send a screenshot of email, but he began to refuse hardly
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Never trade outside the trade window and this would be a scam as it is just some random person adding you and asking you,best way to avoid this is set your inventory to private or friends only.
Also never let someone have access you your email once he gets that he will just confirm take your stuff and run off with it,never trade within steam without having all items both parties want in the trade window.
Unless you know or really trust the person i would never trade outside of it,and never trade anything your not willing to risk as trading is always a slight risk
Always remember that anything outside of steam trade window is very high risk and never give things in promise for others,and paypal is very risky as they can do a charge back or dispute and such.
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Ask to meet in person.
He will carry a suitcase with the money, small denominations only, and you will carry a bag containing your Steam account. Not just the login info: the whole account (make sure you have a large enough bag).
Also make sure he is alone! No police, no tricks.
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not ALL bag, later he agree to begin from small item (for example my hotline miami music pack for cs go cost 3$)
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it is easy, he can be good, until some bigger trade, so it will be profit for him.
Do not trade with real money, you will be scammed earlier or later...
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Scam like told before but never trade with real money not with paypal not with anything, had multiple friends scammed by paypal method like, he pays first gets the items and sends paypal a mail like yeah this guy scammed me can you give me the money back, and gone are the items and gone is the money
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does not paypal need any confirmation? or maybe his relatives working there?
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No you can pretty much always charge back your money without much effort.
I would never trade for money (unless it's with someone you know IRL).
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Are you sure you can chargeback so easily???
I read a lot the paypal site, and let's start by you can't purchase digital stuff.
Chargebacks are of physical stuff purchases, you have to claim you didn't receive it, then seller must prove he sent it. If he can't prove, then maybe you have some option to get the money back.
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I'm pretty sure yes, happened a few times to friends of mine.
I've done it without any problems before too (not on digital stuff though) and it worked pretty fast, which I obviously was happy about in that case. :P
Edit: There is also a difference between actually requesting a chargeback from your bank / credit card company and reporting a conflict to paypal.
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They can get around that by just saying someone used there card/bank without permission.And even if paypal says no they can still contact there cc company and have them do a charge back.
But yes you can use paypay for digital good it just not covered with any protections so it is a lot riskier for the seller with a private transaction.
That is why it is so risky to use paypal if you do not trust the person,as it so easy to get said money back.You could also say something like i gave the money to the person but they sent nothing and since it would be a digital code there would be no real proof you gave the product as you could just make up a key or they could give a fake key as so called proof.
It has to something you can send through the mail and is not a digital code,unless it is say a boxed game.
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makes me think of this guy who bought gta v for someone and the other person said they would pay him through paypal. All he got was a bill for the price of gta v from paypal and lost a copy of gta v
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Treat all of those types of offers as scams and get a verified 3rd party both users can agree on to play middleman.
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Если ты перешлёшь ему письмо, он сам нажмет кнопку "Подтвердить обмен", а ты потеряешь свои вещи.
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When things are made more complicated than they actually are, my bet is it's scam.
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Even from the scammer's perspective it's ridiculously messy. He could've just asked you to confirm the e-mail which is equivalent to sending it to him for him to click. In either case you essentially 'go first' and take all the risk. So whether he's legit or not, it seems stupid.
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this isn't a new method and it's even explained by steam in their long list of ways to be scammed. They even tell you not to send your confirmation mail to anyone since the link in the mail can be activated by anyone who has access to it.
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Its 99.99999% sure that is trying to scam you, and he actually does send you real money, its 99.999999999% is from a stolen creditcard or some kind of paypal revoke payment method...
Just dont trade for real money unless is someone trustworthy, (someone you know in real life, or someone with high reputation on steamgift trade or i dont know...)
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When someone adds you and instantly requests something it is a scam 100% of the time if you are not looking for something
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Any offer where you trade something outside of the steam window should be taken as a scam.
If you ever give someone something for nothing in return RIGHT THERE then you're opening up yourself to a scam.
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Do what I do tell them if they want the items you can list it on the market for them to buy it as you wants steam wallet it's much safer and easy also it stays inside steam now worried about being scammed and you get your money
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Anything that seems too good to be true probably is.
If you ever even have to ask yourself "is this a scam?" that means that it is. If it were a legit deal, you wouldn't even be asking the question.
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Smells like a scam, feels like a scam , tastes like a scam, guess what ... the guy is legit! NOT
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one guy is added me to trade my inventory for real money. he proposed me such method: I send him my items as trade offer, then I'll get steam confirmation on my mail, then I re-send this service mail to HIS mail (as garantee) and then he sends me real money. I don't know why I don't like such thing, is it legal?
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