What the title says. I am extremely new to CS trading, and I noticed I got dms when I traded up my knives. I answered and then it led to them linking this reddit, which because I do not use reddit that much nor trade skins led to me falling for this. I did do basic things like looking up the subreddit, but surface level searches did not say anything bad about it so I want my title to be clear. 

Behavior - I saw this on a less viewed post about this subreddit, the buyer when talking to the middleman will heavily use the word sir for some reason, and I noticed my buyer was doing the exact same thing but the messages are gone. Might be something to watch out for.



Picture1 - Trade was officialized I tried to get more details where the buyer said in text he would do zelle but they are deleting chats. Buyer is reedus, seller is simp-son on the official middleman list from the subreddit: [https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalCsgoTrade/wiki/middleman\_thread/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalCsgoTrade/wiki/middleman_thread/) [https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199054118645](https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561199054118645)

  
Picture2 - Buyer and middleman active in chat, there accounts were online a lot, but on the day of transaction, buyer was extremely inactive.   


Picture3 - Buyer was not talking at all in the steam group chat and just sending me dms, which made me have some hope that they were not in on this together, but further chatting confirmed it.



Picture4 - Recognizing what it was and trying to create a situation that I could back out of the trade, and eventually confirm the middleman was in on it. He wanted me to buy tf2 keys and use that as my payment instead of something like zelle or paypal.



Picture5 - Buyer giving me a fake paypal error message about not being able to pay below 5000 dollars??? In the wrong font?? tried to gaslight me into thinking it was a real error. When I saw this I knew I was officially scammed so I tried to push the situation along and see what the middleman would say which is picture 4.



Picture6 - I confronted them scamming and mentioning a subreddit which had another mm from the list do a scam. After denying with this excuse, I sent him a trade request to see if he even had my items which he did not. After I exposed that, he went silent for a little until making this excuse about a storage account which does not even make sense since hes a middle man. A middleman should not have a storage account especially with 7 day trade protections. 

  
Picture7 - Overall, this is mainly a PSA to newer traders like me who are not really involved in steam trading nor reddit. Hopefully this post gains lots of traction because I was also given the trade history of another former middleman of this subreddit named Sparrow because someone tried hacking his account when he was doing a trade for us, forcing him to return my trade. The owner of the subreddit sent me a screenshot of his trade history to show when he could cancel my trade and I saw multiple deals that had already gone through and scammed people.

r/GlobalCsgoTrade is a SCAM SUBREDDIT DO NOT DO ANY TRADING HERE