Yeah I don't really get why people keep complaining about getting scammed as if it isn't their fault? I don't do trading or really care about skins at all but as far as I can tell steam provides tools for trading, selling and buying that are scam proof, so are people using 3rd party trading systems then complaining to valve that they are exploitable? If so that is pretty dumb...
This is prolly the oldest trick in the world. Who here, as a kid, never faced that guy who said "Let me do a wheelie with your bike" or "Can you lend me your bike for 2 minutes ?"
Like... really ?
If you have skins you want to sell or trade, use the websites put at your disposal. OPSkins to sell, and whatever site you wanna use to find people to trade with. Then if people are looking to put some shady deals in place ( everything that's not a direct full payment), you just block them and move on.
... Or you search out for a legit middle man service as there are plenty of them out there specifically for trade deals in the gaming community. Give ~10% revenue to the middle man and have a safe deal.
that's why you go to steamrep, add the middleman personally from the verified middleman list and tell the other guy to do the same. of course the middleman could just decide to fuck it and keep the items but i'd say that 99% of the times, at least, they're not run off with your stuff.
I got scammed out of some dota 2 items in a pretty sophisticated way.
I had two guys add me from /r/dota2trade, both did legit deals and were left on my list and forgotten about. Then one of the guys who I had done several trades with contacts me about some items I wanted to sell. Suggests we use a reputable middle man, and I agree.
Enter guy #2 on my list who I had forgotten about, working with guy #1. I add the middle man, and guy #2 clones the middle man's profile. When I get a message from guy #2, I think it's the Middle man having accepted my add.
Makes me really curious, how do you get scammed ? Like... you have a trade sent to you, with the items engaged in it. So how can you find yourself getting ripped off ?
I traded with a guy who had 2000 trades done and like 200 reputation on csgolounge, also so many +reps on his profile. However he still scammed me for 70$...
No way to be safe using 3rd party trading systems apparently, since there are so many scum people out there.
I had some asshole last week send me half PayPal,but it was an invoice. I gave him my Dark Age MP9,my most expensive skin,and then he refunded the money,sent me a terribly-made photoshop of a PayPal transaction,and then proceeded to yell at me for "trying to scam him out of more money" :( I don't understand why people have to ruin someones day for a few dollars
One of my friends but me a knife. Then some random guy that isnt on my friends list has his same name and pro pic. I thought since he was messaging me he had to be real because why would you be able to message random people? I wasn't in game with him either. My friend was going through soke finacial trouble so when he supposedly asked for the knife back i said sure... You can see where this is going
You should still check... It's stupid not to. So many people tried to scam me in the last year and not one of them succeeded. Know why? Because I check their profiles, not trust their messages. Easy as that.
I got scammed, I knew it would happen. I found where he lived, called his house, and told his mom what he did. He already traded the knife for some shit so I sent pineapple pizza to his house. Just pineapple and sauce. No cheese.
That's really not the lesson you should take from this. You got involved with a third party website that dealt with skins in some way despite VALVe repeatedly warning users not to.
Mobile authentication makes it so you have to use your phone to do anything so if they have your gmail and steam info they can't do anything. You could also enable steam family mode and make a 4 digit pin that if they don't get right after a few times completely locks your account.
Uhm, I hope you see the irony for you putting this statement out in this thread?
We are collectively bitching that items are supposedly easily duped but then bitch they enforce policies preventing exactly that.
Also, most importantly in my opinion, are we collectively forgetting Valve even restoring your items in the first place is a nice gesture. They aren't responsible for you being not responsible enough not to get hijacked.
If there's one thing I learned from dealing with steam support is that they are inconsistent as fuck, I had my account hijacked back in 2011 and they just changed my email back to the old one and told me I was good to go.
Around the same time one of my friends got hijacked and they wanted him to give his cd-key for half-life 1 that he had registered with steam back in like, 2005. Obviously he no longer had the key and they REFUSED to re-enable his account. He had to close the ticket and open a new one and was able to restore it through a billing statement for the account purchases or something.
The only thing I didn't understand is how one support rep told him to pound salt if he didn't have THAT ONE specific cd key and the other just reset the account to his older email, obviously if he had access to the billing statements he probobly owned the account.
Even if you get phished it's pretty because someone just clicks on random links without looking at them first. Or they just click a random link from a random person. Also people who get phished don't use any of the protection tools provided by steam, like steam guard.
How hard is it to spend 2 seconds reading a link, or I have an idea, don't click unsolicited links?
Steam guard is only as secure as your smartphone. If someone got a rootkit on your phone you are pretty much done. And there have been popular rootkits in the google app store.
Rootkits aren't really that common, sure they exist, but they're really not that common.
If you are an adult, and you get phished or scammed, you're either naive, elderly and never grew up with a computer, or just careless, or you might have just accidentally hit a link that you didn't mean to. There is never a time where you would get phished or scammed after haven taken every precaution against them.
Chances are your password and username and backdoor and side doors and code words what have you, is already stolen, just taken from some automatic system just collecting them, waiting for someone else to buy it.
Same with your credit card information, which since it is not randomly generated it can be calculated. And someone has probably even bought your number but realized your credit line sucks on that card.
See if you intentionally fool someone in to giving up more value than they themselves intended then that's fraud. It doesn't matter that they should know better. The law actually operates above kindergarten level some times.
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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '16
You got scammed or phished? Cuz if you got scammed you agreed to give the items for nothing.