How to tell if someone is impersonating a member of Steam

[General Lee]

I was having a trade and with this guy and he said he will bring in an admin to make sure there are no scams. He made a group chat with him and we were discussing the trade. The "Admin" said to send the items to the "steam bot" so he could verify them. I've never seen this before in a trade. Can someone tell me if this guy is legit or is some scammer?

Here is his profile: https://steamcommunity.com/id/supportusonsteam5h5r5df5fdf

[mimizukari]

Remove the profile link from your OP, this is harassment/naming & shaming.

You are being scammed, stop interactions with these users and report for trade scam.

[Snapjak]

Any and all middle-man/verification/anything are scams. 100%

Report the dude trying to scam you.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Anyone claiming to be a moderator, admin or Valve employee and being a middle man or item verification is not a part of Valve or Steam.

[General Lee]

He's also the one who introduced the "Admin" to me so I don't think I should trust him.

[Forcen]

That guy is listed on this community run scammer database steamrep.com

Anyway, some general advice if it looks to good to be true then it is. Why would this random respected trader want to get you free stuff? What's his benefit?

Don't give anyone anything with the assumtion you will get something else later.
Read this scam FAQ: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433

Report him and explain what happened, steam can look at the logs and figure it out.

[General Lee]

Thanks for your feedback you really helped

[mimizukari]

Messaggio originale di Forcen:

That guy is listed on this community run scammer database steamrep.com

Anyway, some general advice if it looks to good to be true then it is. Why would this random respected trader want to get you free stuff? What's his benefit?

Don't give anyone anything with the assumtion you will get something else later.
Read this scam FAQ: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433

Report him and explain what happened, steam can look at the logs and figure it out.

Steam does not record chat logs, that'd be a huge legal issue if it's not documented somewhere, for one, since lots of personal information gets shared... Aside from that, yeah, report is all he can do.

[Forcen]

They don't? They are stored server side at least for some time? You can see some the chat history in the web chat at least. Guess I never looked into it but it would be hard to prove anything like the stuff people get reported for here if they didn't save chatlogs for some time. Maybe a month or so?

I kind of assume that every single chat service online that doesn't do the whole encryption thing logs basically everything that involves messaging, why is another thing. I don't think it's like facebook or something, they just use it for reports.

[Teksura]

Messaggio originale di Shiki Ryougi:

Messaggio originale di Forcen:

That guy is listed on this community run scammer database steamrep.com

Anyway, some general advice if it looks to good to be true then it is. Why would this random respected trader want to get you free stuff? What's his benefit?

Don't give anyone anything with the assumtion you will get something else later.
Read this scam FAQ: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433

Report him and explain what happened, steam can look at the logs and figure it out.

Steam does not record chat logs, that'd be a huge legal issue if it's not documented somewhere, for one, since lots of personal information gets shared, that'd be a huge legal issue if it's not documented somewhere, for one, since lots of personal information gets shared... Aside from that, yeah, report is all he can do.

Documented somewhere like the privacy agreement?

Steam keeps chat logs for a certain amount of time. This is necessary for things like displaying recent chat history when you open a chat window with someone you were chatting with yesterday, or allowing them to confirm that you're not lying when you report someone for attempted trade scams.

[mimizukari]

Messaggio originale di Teksura:

Messaggio originale di Shiki Ryougi:

Steam does not record chat logs, that'd be a huge legal issue if it's not documented somewhere, for one, since lots of personal information gets shared, that'd be a huge legal issue if it's not documented somewhere, for one, since lots of personal information gets shared... Aside from that, yeah, report is all he can do.

Documented somewhere like the privacy agreement?

Steam keeps chat logs for a certain amount of time. This is necessary for things like displaying recent chat history when you open a chat window with someone you were chatting with yesterday, or allowing them to confirm that you're not lying when you report someone for attempted trade scams.

the only discussion of keeping chat private there is multiplayer chat, I presume from games like tf2/dota 2/etc (since obviously if you all chat it gets saved in the server log for when u parse the match for example) and of course any chat on the forums.

edit: may have made a mistake, they might keep chat logs.