He should. But he claimed the middleman who took both games was trusted. This is stupid because if there is a scam involved it's the middleman and not the victim. The admin saw through that.
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I don't bother about them. I just happened to stumble upon this.
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Please note, that there of a lot of people in America with a very "loose" ability to use English, especially on the internet...
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It's not about the grammar or spelling. It's the style and what he said.
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Most of those people tend to be young, however. Kids are learning how to surf the web at younger and younger ages, leading to a precipitous drop in the overall quality of the internet. That is primarily because the majority of these kids are unsupervised.
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Most English people struggle to spell and use grammar properly online, too.
Source: I'm English and my friends type as well as my dog - and she only has one front paw.
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While this is true, there is usually a discernible difference between a person who's first language is English but is too stupid to use it properly, and a person for whom English is not their first language and they don't have a firm grasp of it yet.
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Better read the reports, some could be more interesting than this.
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These are pretty basic scams, I'm not sure where you get complex from.
And the middleman scam, the victim deserves to be scammed for not verifying the middleman. Really? You don't trust the trader, but you will accept a complete random middleman you've never seen before that he provides?
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Neither of those are complex by any means. These only further prove that idiots are usually ones to get scammed. The second one would have to require you to be really stupid to fall for it.
For the first situation, if you don't trust the initial trader, why would you trust a random "trusted middleman" that he is suggesting? I really don't see how this could go any further since you should have had warning sirens screaming in your head by then.
For the second one, even if someone tells me the key is region locked, invalid or duplicate then I would ask for a screenshot. The error message will be displayed every time they enter the key, so there is no reason why they can't and if they refuse to show you, then chances are they're lying. The whole "threatened to ban the victim from SteamTrades" refers back to my original point of "only idiots get scammed" and leaving a negative rep without a valid reason would actually get the scammer banned.
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Both scams were done by the same person.
Scam 1: He wanted to trade a Black Ops key for Counterstrike Pack or something.
He got one of his pal to be the middleman claiming he was trusted. His middleman friend then proceeded to take the victim's game and ran. To cover his act up, the scammer reported the victim on Steamrep and claimed he lost the Black Ops key to make himself look like the victim but this middleman has been on his friend list ever since. Also, the middleman has been trade banned.
The admin discovered his scam and marked him as a scammer.
Scam 2:
He wanted to trade Devil May Cry for a Dishonored key. After convincing the victim to go first, he asked the victim where he is from. After knowing it's Argentina, he said he is from UK when his profile shows US. He claimed the key didn't work and said it shows "VAC - This game is region locked (NA)"
This is complete bullshit. VAC is for cheats. Not CD key. And the message isn't anything like the above if you activate a region restricted key.
He even had the audacity to hound the victim for more games like Skyrim and Tomb Raider after his lie. When the victim refused and left a neg rep for scamming, he threatened to ban the victim from Steamtrades.
From his English, I could safely guess he is neither Brit nor American.
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