THE SCAM

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PRIVATE PROFILES! First and foremost.



If their profile is not private, they either have zero hours in TF2 or very low hours in TF2. I see a lot of them with hours in Dota 2 or CS:GO.



More often than not, I see these profiles are in places other than North America.



Broken English and poor grammar is very common. They will often repeat words like dude, sir and mate.

They will offer for you to play games with them and join them in mumble.



They will offer a spot in a raffle, and you need mumble to claim your prize.



They will offer you a spot on a team and you need to download the new mumble to talk to them.



Anything involving you downloading mumble from a site they link you.

FAKE MUMBLE SITE

REAL MUMBLE SITE

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Maybe someone added you who has no mutual friends with you. Something seems a bit off.First, check on Steamrep . If other people have reported the trader for scamming, reports will show up on their Steamrep profile.For this scam, they try to get you to download a fake mumble client. They say you need the latest version to talk to them. They send you a link with mumble in the name and a legit looking website. Please be aware that they might have a fake mumble site that looks like a real one. The best way to download mumble is by googling it or from sourceforgeHere is my experience with a well knownscammer named Penek , who seems to be behind this particular website. I checked his steamrep shortly after the add and realized who it was. He was using an alternate account with low hours in every game. I was playing along and he got mad at the end when he realized he was wasting his time.Note: Click images to enlarge them.And here is another example, with a different fake mumble site:Credit for those screen shots goes to reddit user latioscool56 and his post with his experience here So far, people have reported that if you ran the fake mumble program after downloading, it trades your entire inventory to the scammer's account, usually a different one than what they added you with. Some of these fake mumble clients also might have keyloggers in them. Eiher way, your items are gone and you now have a virus.