Ever been scammed?

Yep, lost a csgo knife four years ago.

I'm too socially lazy to do any type of online trading. It's not easy to scam someone who is not interested in one on one communication.

Yeah... When I first got into the Switch ecosystem, I wanted to get myself ACNH. Saw a deal that was cheaper than usual for a 2nd hand price. The buyer asked me to transfer half of the price and vanished afterwards.

Yep, I'll just buy 2nd hand games from reputable sellers :"D

Yeah, I was scammed for a game by an impersonator once, a long time ago. lol

Luckily none so far, no matter how good the deal is, only trade with reputable people, if they're new they must go first, or if they're trying to add extra complicated steps I'd cancel immediately and public all the trade info from both sides.

I was deceived by one key, one gift, my steam account was also stolen recently

If you haven't been scammed, then you've never played a MMO (or souls game if you want to count the messages left by players)

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Early years of Diablo 2, never again...fool me once lol.

Does Habbo Hotel when I was 8 count?

i was almost scammed out of my steam account. It was a phishing site, i was careless and into cs go skins, but after entering credentials and having a gut feeling that something was wrong, rushed to the site immediately and changed the password.
later, the dude added me and pestered me for "missing the cs go tournament because we lost without you". I told him i would give him the account next time so they could win and blocked+reported him

other than that, nothing happened

Got messaged, that someone reported my steam and I was gonna lose my account if I dont message a steam admin about it. The person tried to use fear and all I did was send them steams guidelines on what reporting does to people and not to trust people who claim to be working with steam/valve. Also did send them the certificate they give for giving them your details to lose your account. All in all the person blocked me on steam.

Yep, by an impersonator. Didn't pay attention with whom I'm trading. Didn't help that I was half sick and tired, but it was a good lesson.

Yes, but it were trades for cheap games and bundle leftovers, so I didn't risk more than I can afford to lose.

Don't trade with strangers, don't get scammed.
So nope, easy peazy for me.

Not on Steam. I don't recall having issues with that. I have been scammed in MMORPG's back when I was younger for items and stuff. 😅

In a mmorpg i let someone borrow a high spell, he ran off with it. Never scammed on steam though, although they tried to get in, i am careful now.

When Steamtrades was still my main way to trade, I paid around 20 TF2 keys for a copy of the then-new MGS V. That didn't quite work out.

Nope. If it's too good to be true, it generally is.

Not interested in trades.

You can assume that almost everybody is scammed at least once in a lifetime wherever.

never on steam but I've been phished on an independant mmorpg , entering my logs into a false page linked in game , but the website was pretty similar to the official one, even the security certificates, and despite I had a double security check. I left this game for ever where they stole me 5 years of playing and despite have spent lot of money in subscription , the support did nothing except saying "its your fault" . Fixed

I got scammed once.
It was over 12 years ago... I must have been like 14 or 15.

It was related to CS1.6 servers. I wanted to be admin on one of servers, and for "chains of servers", it was common that admin supported the host-admin (head admin) a little, by e.g. premium SMS. And the admin name was "Ratty" (actually: Szczurek) and I saw him online on server and approach about admin. He then let me to IM app we used in Poland. Told me the SMS credentials and... I gave him some Dragon Coins... (Metin 2).

Then I didn't got priviledged so something was fishy and I approached the head admin. Then, it was found out that admin's didn't "lock" their names from usage on server, so anyone could pretend to be Ratty... (And it was one of servers which didn't mention who is admin right away).

On Steam, no.

On RuneScape. Yes. Once. NEVER FORGET.
I never got into the whole "economy" there so I was dirt poor. I was trying to get an Abyssal whip (a really good weapon at the time; heck, I'd imagine it's probably still good if they haven't power-creeped it over the years) but it cost around 1.5-2 mil gold. I barely managed to scrape together 1 mil so I posted that I wanted to buy it for that much on the forum. Someone quickly responded (in my defense, Abyssal whips are pretty easy to obtain for high level players so it's not like someone being charitable is out of the question). They asked me to go to the deal with them at the city on the edge of the Wilderness (PvP area, you can probably see where this is going). They were juuuuuuust inside the Wilderness. That said, they were much higher level than me and that was only... Level 1 Wilderness (I don't remember how it was called; but basically only people who have no more than 1 level of difference from me can attack me there). So, tell me, reader, what are the odds that while we were in the trade window, some fully decked out player killer who was exactly my level would show up out of nowhere and murder my unprepared arse? :D
So, anyway, that's how teenage-me learned to never ever trust people again.

A bar top computer, got it delivered but while my dad always said check! The seller seemed in a rush and i was too trusting,
Turned it on later, bunch of dead pixels, doesn't respond back, very hard to get such a new screen and 200 euro..
Friend got ripped off with a car though worth $15000.

As to steam? No.