Scams & How to avoid them

Take everyone as a potential scammer, be cautious. Don't trust to quickly and don't judge to quickly.

Don't worry, I've been scammed twice.

And remember if it seems to good, it probably is.

ALWAYS USE TRADE OFFERS!

Easy way to check if they are scammers:

[steamrep.com]

Ways for scammers to scam:

Steam Wallet Scam

YOU CANT SEND MONEY THROUGH STEAM

My friend helped me with giving an example and found a very long text he copy and pasted.

Paypal Scam:

Avoid real money trades as much as you can!

The example below was a real scam attempt by a guy who wanted to buy my knife

Example of a bill:

Phising scams:

Most phisers have private profiles! DON'T ACCEPT PEOPLE WITH PRIVATE PROFILES

Look closely at the link!

Impersonation Scams:

Item swapping or item removal

ALWAYS USE TRADE OFFERS

With the newest updates there is now a email confirmation to prevent scams. That doesn't mean you can't be scammed, be careful!

Overpriced items on the market

We all know there are scammers out there.Some people simply don't want to trade because of the fact that they might lose everything because of scammer.^ Only counts when it comes to money trades!This website is great for checking if the users have been reported for scamming before. They might not have been reported ever on that site but if they scam alot they most likely would have been reported there. So I suggest checking their SteamRep profile.Go to their profile and right click and then click "Copy page URL" and paste it in the steamrep search thingy and you will get their profile!-Steam Wallet Scam (Fake Steam Guard Scam)-PayPal Scam-Phishing Scam-Software Scams (Keyloggers and Account Hijacking)-The Impersonation Scam-Item Swapping Scam-Overpriced item on the marketIf someone sends you a trade offer where there's a text saying that you will recieve money after accepting the trade, It's fake. It does not work. You will not recieve any money.This might be the most dangerous one. There are dumb scammers and there are smart ones. The smart ones usually go for the paypal scam. The scammer either fakes their paypal to make it look like they have alot of money and makes you go first or they send a bill to you. A bill is not a payment. He is basically asking you to pay.Even if the money is sent they can still get the money back by saying they got hacked or something like that! Don't trust anyone on this!This scam is very easy to spot. Mostly done by bots. So basically the bot or the scammer sends a fake link which contains a virus which takes over your account and trades it to another account. Never press any links.This scam got me once. There are many ways scammers do this. Sometimes it's more obvious and they try to convince you that they are a valve employee and want your profile etc etc.But there is another one which is much more dangerous, this one got me.It's when a person asks to send an item over to a friend to check if it's "tradable."When it's in your friends account they will copy and make their profile look like your account and tell your friend to send it back sending a trade offer to your friend. Your friend is going to think it's you and BAM, you got scammed.Don't trade over stuff to other accounts when they ask.These ones have gotten two of my friends.The item swapping is easier to spot, if they have two of the same items in their inventory with different qualities watch out. In the last second he migh swap the item for a lower quality one.The "item removal" is much more dangerous. I honestly don't know how they do it.They basically add an item in the trade window and remove and add it several times and then stop. If you accept now you will recieve NOTHING. It says that the item was in the trade window but you wont get anything.You'll most likely see a "I TRADE MY KARAMBIT FADE FOR DOTA 2 ITEM" or something like that in your trading journey! He will probably decline your every item offer and tell you that he wants you to buy a dota 2 item off the market. Most dota 2 items can be signed which will make them as standalone items which can be sold on the market. This means that if that signed item is rare and only has 1 or 2 on the market for a very low value he can just buy all of them and put them out for an insane amount and get someone to buy it. He will get the market money and you'll be recieving a worthless item. This can happen with every item such as trading cards for example.