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♡MʏsᴛJᴇss Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:23am
Scammers.
Scammers are becoming an ever-increasing issue in steam, I have three or four add me every day and even after reporting each one with sufficient evidence for a trade ban or any other kind of ban, nothing is done. Is Valve ever going to do anything about this problem?
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Theblaze Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:25am 
Originally posted by Ⓖⓔⓞⓕⓕ:
Scammers are becoming an ever-increasing issue in steam, [...]

Guess why is that, thanks to the People that fell for scams everyday.
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♡MʏsᴛJᴇss Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:26am 
Originally posted by Theblaze:
Guess why is that, thanks to the People that fell for scams everyday.

1. Your comment makes very little sense
2. Valve should really do something to protect their users against scammers.

EDIT:
I'm not just another one of those salty kids who falls for scams, I have never been scammed so far.
Last edited by ♡MʏsᴛJᴇss; Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:27am
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Theblaze Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:27am 
Originally posted by Ⓖⓔⓞⓕⓕ:
[...] 2. Valve should really do something to protect their users against scammers.

They already did.

Valve can't protect People for their stupidity and greediness.
Last edited by Theblaze; Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:28am
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♡MʏsᴛJᴇss Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:31am 
Originally posted by Theblaze:
They already did.
Valve can't protect People for their stupidty and greediness.

What Valve has done clearly isn't enough to prevent this as it is worse than ever right now. Even after reports with more than enough evidence for a ban, nothing will change.
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Theblaze Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:35am 
It won't change anything at all no matter what they do. Only stupid People get scammed.

You can't fix stupidity.
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♡MʏsᴛJᴇss Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:38am 
Originally posted by Theblaze:
It won't change anything at all no matter what they do. If People are stupid they get scammed, it's simple.
Actually banning scammers, or even using SteamRep's database to identify and ban scammers would make a tremendous difference, they could even crack down on fake gambling sites too, there is a lot Valve could do, but clearly not a lot they are willing to do.
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Theblaze Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:41am 
No third-party sites were ever officially supported. Some gambling websites were already shut down because of Valve.

Valve is not responsible if People are using third-party sites at all.

Anyway, if you have any suggestions / ideas for Valve regarding this matter, feel free to post it in the Suggestions / Ideas Forum.
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♡MʏsᴛJᴇss Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:47am 
Originally posted by Theblaze:
No third-party sites were ever officially supported. Some gambling websites were already shut down because of Valve.

Valve is not responsible if People are using third-party sites at all.
It isn't just third party sites that people are using to scam, they use middlemen, impersonation, item verification and that is to list but a few techniques scammers use.
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Theblaze Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:48am 
Originally posted by Ⓖⓔⓞⓕⓕ:
[...] they use middlemen, impersonation, item verification and that is to list but a few techniques scammers use.

Which is already known since the trade features was introduced.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433
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♡MʏsᴛJᴇss Dec 23, 2016 @ 2:54am 
Originally posted by Theblaze:
Originally posted by Ⓖⓔⓞⓕⓕ:
[...] they use middlemen, impersonation, item verification and that is to list but a few techniques scammers use.

Which is already known since the trade features was introduced.
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=3415-WAFH-6433
I see your point about Valve not being able to save people from their stupidity, but it's not just stupid people who are fed up of scammers. The fact that they can just set up another account and start again infuriates most people, so maybe hardware bans are a way foward.
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Theblaze Dec 23, 2016 @ 3:00am 
If you mean HWID's, they can be spoofed same as IP's.
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♡MʏsᴛJᴇss Dec 23, 2016 @ 3:00am 
Originally posted by Theblaze:
If you mean HWID's, they can be spoofed same as IP's.
Most scammers aren't that intelligent, that was pretty obvious.
But nonetheless, that's a good point
Last edited by ♡MʏsᴛJᴇss; Dec 23, 2016 @ 3:04am
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John Hadley Dec 23, 2016 @ 3:15am 
What would you like them to do about scammers? Ban them? Steam accounts are free so people will make as many as they want and continue to try to scam people. IP banning them is not even effective because there are public wifi hot spots all over the place as well as proxy servers that people can use to change their IP address easily and just continue to try to scam people. Valve could certainly spend a lot of money hiring an army of customer support representatives and having them flail their arms at scammers, but in the end the problem is not going to go away no matter what they do.
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ChupyKusa Dec 23, 2016 @ 3:20am 
Originally posted by John Hadley:
What would you like them to do about scammers? Ban them? Steam accounts are free so people will make as many as they want and continue to try to scam people. IP banning them is not even effective because there are public wifi hot spots all over the place as well as proxy servers that people can use to change their IP address easily and just continue to try to scam people. Valve could certainly spend a lot of money hiring an army of customer support representatives and having them flail their arms at scammers, but in the end the problem is not going to go away no matter what they do.
At least bann their IPs so they have to use proxy and public IPs. Otherways, they dont even have to move from their houses
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Theblaze Dec 23, 2016 @ 3:30am 
Banning IP's is pointless and only time wasting.

Just restart your router and there you, see? not much effort.
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