[WARNING/PSA] Scammer details inside, please get the word out
Here is an excellent guide on trading and if you haven't read it yet please do so now:
http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2trade/comments/luc4d/so_you_want_to_buy_or_sell_an_item_for_cash_heres/
UPDATE 3: The scumbag is at it again, trying to sell this stolen holiday headcase for $200:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2418411
UPDATE 2: It seems like that stolen holiday headcase is quite rare as of 12/29/11, more info here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2trade/comments/nvg57/psa_holiday_headcase_hat_is_looking_to_be_far/
If any valve employee comes across this post: if you could do anything to help get this rare hat back to it's rightful owner, I and a lot of other people would really appreciate it.
UPDATE 1: Look at the fucking nerve of this guy... he's trying to sell that stolen holiday headcase on SPUF:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2391292
If any of you have a SPUF account I beg you to please post and warn others about where this item came from and how this individual is a lowlife scammer.
I’m going to try to make this as short as possible, please bear with me.
I managed to get a BMOC and an Ebenezer—I’m very lucky, I know. I was one of the first few to get it I think. I came across a thread someone posted on SPUF stating he was selling his BMOC. Here is the post:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2378014
I took a look out of curiosity and saw the following user known as “Cheeser” made an offer of $361 for the BMOC.
Here is his SPUF profile:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/member.php?u=1153287
I sent him a pm on SPUF letting him know I had one and this is the conversation that took place immediately after:
What a scumbag. Again, here is all his information:
His steam profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198005867687
His SPUF account info: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/member.php?u=1153287
His steam rep page: http://www.steamrep.com/index.php?id=76561198005867687
Now I posted all this on tf2outpost and warned a few other people about this guy and thought to myself that would be enough to thwart his scamming efforts. I was wrong. Check out what happened today:
http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/385026
It’s the same fucking guy. He scammed someone out of a holiday headcase. He probably got away with it because I was TOO FUCKING LAZY to post more about this guy and urge the community to spread the word. It’s too late for Wyldecaveman but hopefully this post can prevent someone else from getting scammed by this asshole.
Please reddit community, upvote this to the top. I don’t care about any karma bullshit and don’t even know how it works—just look at my account, I’m just not into that—and I’ll even delete my account if it will help. I just want to make sure this asshole NEVER gets the chance to scam someone else from that account. If I had just posted this last night maybe Wyldecaveman and possibly others wouldn’t have been scammed.
If anyone can help get his steam and steam user forum accounts banned I’d appreciate it more than words can say.
Please guys, ALWAYS check steamrep—no exceptions! Please NEVER trade for cash with anyone who isn’t very well known in this community—always trade for promos if you can help it. Never click on any link some unknown person sends you via steam pm. Finally, please don’t let greed cloud your judgement. Wyldecaveman was offered $100 by mattie, who has one of the best and widely known reputations out there, but was turned down. For fucks sake, if mattie came to me with that offer I’d have taken it!
Look at his reputation:
http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=65421
www.steamrep.com/index.php?id=mattie
If mattie ever makes you guys out there an offer please know, after you verify it’s actually him, that it’s the real deal.
I don’t know what else to say other than if someone ever tries scamming you log as much information as possible and report it to steamrep.
I want to thank fashnek for his help in tracking down the scammed item, here is a copy and paste of the information he posted:
“fashnek posted 56 minutes ago:
BTW, I believe this is your item, yes? He seems to have traded it to his alt account, "ohhnoo" -- http://tf2b.com/item/76561198036388377/638060973 -- the item's Current ID: 638060973 and Original ID: 637605992. You need to keep track of those values if you hope to do anything about this scammer.”
We need to get his alt account banned as well.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
Posted Dec 29, 2011, 3:04 AM UTC · edited