NEW SCAM! BEWARE! (PAYPAL CASHOUT SCAM)

[heisen]

I've been trying to cashout my skins for quite some time now. They are mostly $10 skins that won't sell on opskins or not for a good price. I've looked into paypal and noticed something.
On websites such as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I've seen people advertising "cashout I go first". This is very rare as many cashout services are scams in themselves. Interested in selling my skins, I added a few of these people over the coarse of a couple days. Now this scam is certainly not new but it is something that not many people would even think could possibly be a scam. Basically upon adding this person they will ask what skins you want to cashout and give you there offer (typically a very high offer, market price or better) and say they will go first and not to scam them etc. They will then say something like "could you give me verification for steam support" and will inform you that they want a screenshot of an email confirmation and they will send you a trade offer with the items. They will tell you to not accept the trade, just send the screenshot (or link) to the email verification. What this does is it actually allows them to accept the email verification therefore you will send your skins to them. They will then block you unfriend etc.

I would like to add a few things, first I was not scammed by this and I know about how the scam works from other sources (reddit etc) I just wanted to warn everyone about this as scammers are getting smarter and smarter.

For reference on what these scammers will act like I will re inact a recent conversation with one.
Scammer: (offer here) I go first family and friends paypal don't scam me. I have one condition
You: What is it
Scammer: Can you send me an screenshot of an email verification for steam support
You: Why?
Scammer: (insert ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about how it will get item back or you banned)
You: Ok then
Scammer: I sent a trade offer, accept it then send me the email screenshot or link
You: ok (link here)
Scammer: Offline since 0 seconds ago (blocked and unfriended)

Sorry for long asf post
Tl;dr
If you are cashing out or just trading with someone and they ask for a screenshot or link of the email verification steam send you do not send it and block them immediately. It allows them the accept the trade remotely.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I'm not sure I get this scam. Are they pretending to get scammed so as to get you in trouble?

[Brujeira]

Originally posted by Quint the Turtle Fence:

I'm not sure I get this scam. Are they pretending to get scammed so as to get you in trouble?

No, they're duping the mark into sending them a copy of the email confirmation for the trade. Presumably they use some kind of OCR software to scrape the confirmation link out of the image, copy it into their browser and authorise the trade from their end. With any luck escrow should make this particular scam much more difficult.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Originally posted by Brujeira:

Originally posted by Quint the Turtle Fence:

I'm not sure I get this scam. Are they pretending to get scammed so as to get you in trouble?

No, they're duping the mark into sending them a copy of the email confirmation for the trade. Presumably they use some kind of OCR software to scrape the confirmation link out of the image, copy it into their browser and authorise the trade from their end. With any luck escrow should make this particular scam much more difficult.

Oh! I see.

[ActualSHIT]

Thanks for saing about this Scam. :)

[wuddih]

with the link they can just accept the trade themselves.

a screenshot alone will not do the job, they hope they find the link anywhere because your mouse was over the button, if not they will tell you to click "Trouble viewing this message? Click here." thing and then make a screenshot of that.
OCR is text recognition, when the link is nowhere visually written in the email, then they cannot see it and it is not written anywhere. the browser url bar will display it or if you had mouse over button, the statusbar.

[Xigaz]

This type is scam is very old actualy and im suprised that people still fall for it. Im suprised that there are people dumb enugh to fall for such obvious scam :D

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