found a new knife scam method?

[spdqb]

recently listed my knife on steam market. soon after that some random guy added me to friends list. of course i already knew he's a scammer, because he was maybe #15 who added me to friends for the last two weeks.

the conversation went as follows:
-hey, selling your knife?
-yeah
-i wanna buy it for real money, do you accept crypto? add me in discord.

in discord he explained, that he has a yellow steam guard badge, so he has a 15-day hold on all trades that are incoming. he shared his screen and we tried this - i sent a cheap 0.03$ pistol, and as expected, his screen showed "trade is in hold for 15 days".

he offered me the deal: i send the knife, it becomes held for 15 days(because he has a yellow steam guard), and he sends the crypto. after that he waits for 15 days of hold and takes the knife.

of course it's a cheap scam! but i don't really understand, how this works? does he actually have a green steam guard and just fakes the yellow one, or can he obtain a green steam guard in seconds? what's the catch of that?

[Xsago797]

I stopped reading it after :
"-i wanna buy it for real money, do you accept crypto? add me in discord."
Old scam .
Dont add randoms ...

[Jankes]

did you get scammed?

[Saucellentities]

He def change his hud never trust their sharescreen they can manipulate it and change the layout and when you trade steam would tell you that this trade would be held for 15 days

[spdqb]

Originally posted by Jankes:

did you get scammed?

nope. also tried multiple times to catch him red-handed, some of them were successful, some were not.
1) turn off your browser extensions. he did, and nothing changed - the steam guard icon was still yellow.
2) he had a fake expensive inventory. if i go and check him myself, he only has 2 worthless skins. but his screen showed 6-7 expensive skins(total worth >5k$), everything trade banned. the 2 cheap skins were not displayed on his screen though.
3) he showed his trade history, so i asked him to contact the last guy he was trading with(it was a knife gift). so he did. he created a group chat with me and the guy, and "the guy", of course, told that everything was great. the guy also showed his steam profile, which matched with the trade history one.
4) about "the guy". after he left the group chat, i asked the scammer - how did you pay for the knife? he answered the payment was in crypto. so i asked him, can you send me the usdt transaction link? "no, i don't want to share it because it's risky, i want for my transfers to be private".
5) just buy my knife on steam! "no, because 15% fee".
6) let me post the knife on third-party website! "no, i don't trust any websites, it is a risk"
7) he never mentioned the price, which he would pay for the knife. we talked for 20-30 minutes and he tried to convince me countless times he would send me the money, but he never even once told me, how much money he would buy the knife for.

[spdqb]

Originally posted by Xsago797:

I stopped reading it after :
"-i wanna buy it for real money, do you accept crypto? add me in discord."
Old scam .
Dont add randoms ...

yeah you're right. never in my 5 years of playing cs i had a single random friend invite. but after buying the knife i started to get friend invites daily. most of them were really dumb like "we need a 5th player in our cybersport team, go enter your login and password on our fake steam link window". but this one really was something new.

[FOOTJOBLOVER <3]

Originally posted by spdqb:

Originally posted by Xsago797:

I stopped reading it after :
"-i wanna buy it for real money, do you accept crypto? add me in discord."
Old scam .
Dont add randoms ...

yeah you're right. never in my 5 years of playing cs i had a single random friend invite. but after buying the knife i started to get friend invites daily. most of them were really dumb like "we need a 5th player in our cybersport team, go enter your login and password on our fake steam link window". but this one really was something new.

when i got my first knife, a lot of a random added me and i fell into that scam ughhhhhh. lost a bayonet freehand mw worth 280$