where is better to report those btiches, steamtrades is a mess.
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http://steamrep.com/ but you need to have evidence (screenshots) of the scam or scam attempt.
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Still, a lot of types of common reports aren't accepted there. A report for an obvious impersonation though can always be accepted.
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Obviously. Steamtrades is like Wild West - well, actually, even Wild West had some people to enforce the law at least. xD He can also report them on steam. The steam reports actually work sometimes, if the scammer has been reported a lot of times.
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Now you've gotten me curious as to how often they actually follow through with that. Do you think someone like this would be accepted? He changed his avatar after I called him out, but you can still clearly see what he's up to. Bought my background, stole my artwork, using my name, using my profile description. He has some screenshots too bragging about his KDA in CSGO where you can see he used to use my avatar too, but besides that I've no physical evidence of him attempting to scam people.
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You must show sufficient proof that YOU are the one that gets impersonated, usually with the form of chat pictures. Steamrep always accepts the obvious impersonations. You can always try to report him there.
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yep, that person was banned there, i am idiot :(
lost about 30$ in 2 trades in a row.
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ouch sorry. i suggest using http://www.enhancedsteam.com/ like tzaar said. once installed you can check users profiles via web browser and they will have a big red tag similar to a VAC ban for users that are scammers known by steamrep. additionally it has steamtrades links from profiles to insure you are communicating with the person they claim to be.
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You should check steamrep and steamtrades more often then, in order to be sure with whom you're trading.
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Tell me about it... if you search my name and scroll down to the bottom, this is what I have to put up with every day. It's honestly kind of creepy. The guy on the second page with the stars in his name has been impersonating me for three months. He logs in every single day and just casually plays CS as me, even went through the effort of buying my background and stealing my artwork. He was using my picture too until I tried to contact him and ask him wtf he was doing, then he changed it and blocked me and there's literally nothing I can do about him. I reported him obviously but as if that even does anything.
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When you start trading only trade with people who have plenty of +rep. I'd say 50 or more and even then you have to be careful if you trade high value stuff. And ALWAYS double check if the person you agreed the trade with is the one who youre talking to on Steam.
When youre getting more and more +rep life will be easier. But at the start youre an easy victim for scammers.
I've been there. Got scammed twice as well when I started, lost about 75$ total. Those were hard lessons but I havent been scammed since. Scamming routines are basically all the same. If it smells fishy, dont trade.
669 plusrep now. Never have to go 1st (and if I do I just cancel the trade)
Good luck ;)
EDIT: Impersonators are really easy to spot but many people get greedy or dont take the minute of time to doublecheck identities.
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For me when someone adds me or I am about to add them, I just compare the steam profiles from the person with the one who I discussed trading with on here. I happened to run into imperonators two times so far, and in both cases they were kind of easy to identitate to me, since their game count and level was different from the persons they tried to imitate.
Hope that helped a bit. Happy Trading. :)
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/Domenik_
http://steamcommunity.com/id/SgtFopper- this one is the biggest i think, don't think that he wishlists all by himself, though, but who knows.
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