Steam Any new scam methods you're aware of? & What's your general experience on dealing w/ scammers?

Red

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I was added by 5 scammers this month. One impersonated a valve employee, another accidentally reported me of owning duped items, the other 3 wanted to "sponsor" me. The whole thing is somewhat evolving. What abt you guys?
 
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Cena

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There's quite a few more but i ain't here to prove anything

The recent scam attempts that i've came across recently was 2 guys, 1 was a friend who got hacked He told me that he wanted to trade with me but he noticed i was marked as a "Scammer" even though last time i traded was 1 year ago, the other fella told me i was reported for having duped items and i need to contact a valve employee if i don't want to get banned, i went with the flow and kept going as if "oh no i'm in danger!" until he told me to add some guy on discord, seemingly the "Valve Employee" and i just couldn't be bothered anymore so i blocked him.

I don't really get how anyone could be fooled by this but some people do so i'd advice people to not click random links from stranger no matter what, as long as ya don't recognize the link don't click it.
 
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kokostal

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The funniest one i got was of this account which had set itself up to be some e-girl and they added me and after some small talk they asked "whats more important to you, your account or your items". I said account and then 5 mins later they come at me with some photoshopped screenshot of them about to change my password and ask "coöporate or il take your account" and then i just blocked lmao

Im amazed how these people think they can still scam anyone above steam level 20
 
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Elizabeth

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I've had countless people who add me on Steam and try to scam me out of my account or my items. Some of them had some dialect of Mandarin at the end of their name for whatever reason, others were just plain easy to detect as a scammer.

In the end, they all just get blocked.
 

Green.

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I was added by 5 scammers this month. One impersonated a valve employee, another accidentally reported me of owning duped items, the other 3 wanted to "sponsor" me. The whole thing is somewhat evolving. What abt you guys?
Yesterday, I was added by some dude/girl whose trade banned, asking me for free stuff. So ofc I unfriended them because they are trade banned.
 

DiscountIvy

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Once a new case drops, and its price is about 1.00 - 0.80 euro, you will see people on 2fort with binds like "buying new cases, 1 ref each", and they get trades every 15 minutes or so. Speaking out of personal experience as I made an 8 euro profit from doing that during the summer case drops.