So I just got scammed.. and it's only a few hours til my birthday :/

I hope this makes you feel better.
http://imgur.com/gallery/jKn3G

With 400+ games, not sure how did that make you feel so miserable, if you have a spary copy of red alert 3, that will make us both happy :'D

Just so you know, that profile is most likely fake and he is using someone else's name to trade with you.

Sorry about that dude; there are so many scammers on Steamtrades.

With key trading you can't actually proof anything. It's just your word against his word.

You could contact HiB with some proof of purchase and ask them to invalidate the code on Steam.

You would gain nothing in the process (well, maybe some satisfaction), but whoever used the key would have the game removed.

Not sure though if they will do it, they have more perssing matters to attend to, like all those credit card scammers, but it's worth a shot.

Sorry :-(

Maybe these gifs can cheer you up a bit:

• cat
• dogs
• Goku, is it you?
• dogs2
• Chin
• Logical Thinker!

something like that happened to my gf...

but in this case, i was "the friend" who was supposed to receive the key...

but believe me... it was already taken.
also from a guy who said he has a lot of game keys.

Okay, I'm really sorry that you got scammed, but please don't use your birthday to make the situation even sadder, because it makes no difference.
Just report the guy with the proofs, be more careful next time, cheer up and move on.

That is why I never do key trades...ever. It's a steam gift, or I buy it myself.

Sorry bruh.
Have this. May make you feel better somehow.

D:

man, my friend and i were trying to get enough copies of ravaged from some bundle to fill a 5v5 after some of the betas we had turned to full copies, so we got some spare keys together and i watched him try trade them, we got 8 accounts in the end and loss so many games cuz ppl use that same excuse that its suddenly for a friend and the key doesnt work.. then they say well if u dont have any left ill take that "BTA game" instead, I was so angry but my friend trade it anyway, third time it happen i was like fuck you we jst brought those games fuck ur rep and fuck that guy

Everyone who wanted the key for themselves activated stuff instantly no problem then quickly paste out a ravaged key, but those mofos with inept friends are always u are lowest rep so u go, ok wait one sec i get my friend to activate, hey doesnt work are you scammer? its ok its jst bad key, jst give me other game.

Report him here: SteamRep

So you removed the guy's name, not like it's hard to look for the only negative rep you have on steamtrades LOL. :P
In the end it's just your word against his. We don't know if the key was already used or if he stole it.

Dude, never trade keys. Only use the trading window unless you know them personally.

I advertised a magicka wizard wars keys on steamtrades and 4 out of the 5 people that added me were scammers. I didn't get scammed but steamrep said they were. In that case I didn't care if i lost the key as it was free alpha key and game will be f2p anyway

The alleged scammer does have a decent rep, though. Only one negative before today.

im surprised you didnt notice the red flag. he said it was for his friend but you didnt even once attempt to ask him to invite 'his friend' to your chat. the account which is supposed to activate the game is unknown to you, furthermore since he said he's sending the key to 'his friend' that means the account was also online at that time. direct key trading is already risky business, not to mention adding an unidentified 3rd party into the equation, sorry to hear your loss tho, happy bday :/

The guy added so many vowels to the word "another"

Steamrep thread

No need to censor this. Getting scammed sucks. When in doubt, use a middleman and not someone your trade partner magically summons out of a hat.

Also, if you left a comment on his Steamtrades profile, repost it with a link to your Steamrep thread. Also, you need to add screenshots of your chat. I hope you haven't closed it yet...

Alleged scammer tells his side of the story in his returning comment. I guess there's a good reason Steamrep don't do anything about key trades. There is no way to determine if the key really was used or not. On the other hand,the guy not telling which account the key would be used on is shady as well.

trading with keys is very frustrating at times. this is why people value giftable copies more then keys.

That's why you shouldn't use REP for trading, whatever you're trading.

When you are looking at the REP, even if a person has +500 REP the person can scam you any time since they got so far now.

You were the person (:

aw wow that sux

Sorry man, I know the feeling I lost my faith in humanity years ago...