Inutsuki Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:20pm
Got scammed
This is less of a question more just to make sure people are aware of things. So today someone stole a ton of my tf2 items that was worth a lot, like a lot....

How did this happen you may ask. Well:

A guy on discord with the username "Jack Skeleton" texted me on discord saying whether or not I scammed them. Then I showed them my trading history and he apologised for the mistake. They then sent me a screenshot of their ban report on me; there it says that they need to contact me and ask me to add Fries Reuben#5511 or Greuben on steam and well, I got my items stolen, but I was able to quickly recognise the scam (with a ton of items taken from me) when they asked me to give them my email account

So uhh I just got got
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м Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:22pm 
sorry, but the forums are full of this. the problem is that people mostly only check the forums AFTER they got scammed, and not before.

all you can do is to report the accounts on discord and on steam, and to be more careful next time.
Last edited by м; Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:23pm
Zekiran Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:23pm 
You probably want to stop adding names and info to posts.

Learn from your error in greed and move on, there's nothing else that can be done. Discord is not a safe place to do any trades or agree to them. Steam's trade window, and reading every single warning and piece of popup info you see every single time, is the only safe way to guarantee where your items, money, and trades are going.
Inutsuki Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:24pm 
yeah figured, I'm surprised tho that I never heard of anything like this before today
Zekiran Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:24pm 
Originally posted by Sorutsuki:
yeah figured, I'm surprised tho that I never heard of anything like this before today


Because you didn't read Steam's faq on scams and phishing, and did not practice basic good internet safety.
Inutsuki Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:26pm 
True, I need to learn from my mistakes today. Oh well, looks like my bumble bee beanie is gone forever
ReBoot Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:39pm 
Pro tip: common sense. Grow it. Nurture it. Practice it. Common sense would have prevented you from falling from this scam and common sense helps against all scams (except phishing, that you need to educate yourself about separately). The great thing about common sense is that it protects against previously-unknown kinds of scams.

In this case, for example, common sense would have dictated to go with the root of trust. Why exactly is some random dude named "Fries Reuben#5511" an official? Because some other random dude says. So a random dude tells you to trust another random dude.
You gotta admit, broken down like that, it's blatantly obviously a scam.

If you rely on memorizing particular scam patterns instead of common sense, you'll keep losing your stuff because scammers switch their methods every now and then.
Last edited by ReBoot; Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:54pm
Voss Jan 25, 2021 @ 12:43am 
dont people think today...
Supafly Jan 25, 2021 @ 12:54am 
Originally posted by Sorutsuki:
yeah figured, I'm surprised tho that I never heard of anything like this before today
Because you don't use the forum. Plenty of others like you post the same story all the time. And like this thread they'll be dead and buried soon enough because like you those it'd help don't bother reading all the PINNED threads warning about this sort of stuff.
Pattern of scam:

Bait, story, steps

For another time.
аdvicebanana Jan 25, 2021 @ 6:46am 
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433

Originally posted by red box on top of this Trade Scam FAQ on Steam Support pages:
Valve employees will never ask you to trade your items to them; this includes users who claim to work for Steam Support.


Users claiming to be a Valve employee, accounts asking to verify your items, and users who send you a message which insist you need to trade your items to them for investigation or security reasons should immediately be reported for trade scams.
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Date Posted: Jan 24, 2021 @ 11:20pm
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