Trying to scam via trade banned steamworks developer?

[Victorinox Skinport.com]

If someone wants to trade that way, is it safe or is it a scam attempt or something? I have never done something like that before.

Please help

[Tycho]

I'm not totally sure what are you asking.
If someone is trade banned, they won't be able to trade.
And if they are trade banned, that means they got reported a lot for scamming other people.

[Victorinox Skinport.com]

A guy wants to trade with me. He said that he will get a moderator or something. Now a Steamworks developer created a group chat for us, so he will verify items for us.

[Tycho]

"Verify items" as in take your items?
Scam. Report him immediately.

[Victorinox Skinport.com]

It's weird, since a trade banned person would verify. I'll get out of the chat anyways.

They say this is an action to prevent trading items, that would ruin someone's inventory or something. But it's strange, that developer at least looks legit.

[Tycho]

Can you send me his profile link?
Anyone who wants to "verify" your items is a scammer.
Anyone can be a Steamworks developer, one just needs to publish a game on Steam.

[Start_Running]

There is a trading faq. follow it. Do not deviate from it. Ever.

[cinedine]

There is no such thing as "false items" or "dupes". Every item exists. Trades via middleman are 99% scam attempts. Report both of them and move on. Don't let them hustle you any further and don't believe anything they might say to pressure you into the trade.

[Tycho]

LMAO This "Steamworks Developer" is hilarious.

Originally posted by Scammer:

In non-Steam game
Steamworks Developer

Hey I'm Alpa, I can be your Steam Administrator for any kind of services like Item-Cash, Item-Verification, or Debt Holding. I am just here doing my job helping traders to prevent getting those unverified items that will ruin such inventories. Feel free to add and ask me for my services. I am always here willing to help.!

BE SURE TO SEE A CURRENTLY TRADE BANNED

Report+Block

If you suspect that someone's a scammer in the future, make another thread here. And choose wisely, some people would sell their own mothers for one knife of yours.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Tycho:

If you suspect that someone's a scammer in the future, make another thread here. And choose wisely, some people would sell their own mothers for one knife of yours.

Don't create a thread. Report for attempted trade scam and leave it. Naming and shaming is heavily frowned upon here. Also use common sense (no one will trade a 100 dollar item for your dime-a-dozen ones) and follow the guides:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433

Also for future reference:
Valve employees have Valve-Badge (literally a pucitre of a valve) featured on their profile, a light green name and the Valve logo next to it. They also do not interfere with user actions.

[Tycho]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Tycho:

If you suspect that someone's a scammer in the future, make another thread here. And choose wisely, some people would sell their own mothers for one knife of yours.

Don't create a thread. Report for attempted trade scam and leave it. Naming and shaming is heavily frowned upon here. Also use common sense (no one will trade a 100 dollar item for your dime-a-dozen ones) and follow the guides:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433

I never told him to name/shame. I told him to ask if he suspects that someone's a scammer, not if he knows for sure.

[Victorinox Skinport.com]

I usually block them instantly, but that was a very interesting and new way (at least for me). Seems like scamming is developing very fast, it's totally different than a year ago.

[Tycho]

Originally posted by Victorinox:

I usually block them instantly, but that was a very interesting and new way (at least for me). Seems like scamming is developing very fast, it's totally different than a year ago.

I know for about 90% of the existing trade scamming ways that are being used daily on Steam. Mostly because I see at least twenty posts daily on SD crying that they've been scammed for their $100 knife. You were wise to ask first.

[Victorinox Skinport.com]

I definitely wouldn't trade if I had to send item for inspection or something like that, I insisted on normal trade and because they didn't want, I simply left the group chat.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Victorinox:

I usually block them instantly, but that was a very interesting and new way (at least for me). Seems like scamming is developing very fast, it's totally different than a year ago.

The newest thing is a scam+ransom ware combination. If you start Steam, it willl be blocked and told that your account is under suspicion for fraudulent acitivity and you have to accept the trade offer from "Steam Escrow" in order to be able to use it again. At least I have not seen something like this before.
Every other scam today already existed way back in Ultima Online and offline. The only difference is that the average user today is far less sophisticated in internet security and knowing about such things as gaming get s more and more popular.

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by cinedine:

Originally posted by Victorinox:

I usually block them instantly, but that was a very interesting and new way (at least for me). Seems like scamming is developing very fast, it's totally different than a year ago.

The newest thing is a scam+ransom ware combination. If you start Steam, it willl be blocked and told that your account is under suspicion for fraudulent acitivity and you have to accept the trade offer from "Steam Escrow" in order to be able to use it again. At least I have not seen something like this before.

That's called a virus. Don't accept friend requests from random people, don't click on links from your new random friends and don't automatically install whatever your new random friends sent you.