Ok, so what are the odds that we're BOTH being scammed?

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chefcook90 4 Oct @ 2:09am

At this point it's 100% obvious that someone is trying to scam someone in this ongoing interaction I've been having, but the guy I've been chatting with seems so utterly baffled and confused by what's been going on, that I'm legitimately beginning to wonder if he's ALSO a victim of a scam.

Like, is there a scam, where if you report someone, a third party will pick up on the report and try to guilt you into giving up information by saying, "hey, I'm a steam moderator, and I'm going to ban this guy permanently unless you give us your information so we can clear this up."

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J4MESOX4D 4 Oct @ 2:13am

Moderators moderate forums and that's it. If anyone is interacting with you or the person you are speaking into in a Valve staff capacity then it is a scam. Let the other person know and they should cease contact and report any account that is talking to them.

Also these links should be useful:-
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/70E6-991B-233B-A37B
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3195-9FFB-BA06-F25B

Ogami 4 Oct @ 2:15am

No. If its the good old " hey i accidentally reported you" routine its 100% always a scam and the person contacting you is 100% in on it.
Every time.
Its one, if not THE oldest scam on Steam and a lot of those scammers have been doing this for years on different accounts and can appear very convincing/genuine.
But its 100% ALWAYS a scam.

chefcook90 4 Oct @ 2:21am

Originally posted by Ogami:
No. If its the good old " hey i accidentally reported you" routine its 100% always a scam and the person contacting you is 100% in on it.
Every time.
Its one, if not THE oldest scam on Steam and a lot of those scammers have been doing this for years on different accounts and can appear very convincing/genuine.
But its 100% ALWAYS a scam.

Alright, so we're 100% positive on this?
There's absolutely no chance that scammers have upped their game and moved on to meta-scamming?

datCookie 4 Oct @ 2:23am

Originally posted by chefcook90:
Originally posted by Ogami:
No. If its the good old " hey i accidentally reported you" routine its 100% always a scam and the person contacting you is 100% in on it.
Every time.
Its one, if not THE oldest scam on Steam and a lot of those scammers have been doing this for years on different accounts and can appear very convincing/genuine.
But its 100% ALWAYS a scam.
Alright, so we're 100% positive on this?
There's absolutely no chance that scammers have upped their game and moved on to meta-scamming?

As per the last thread you made on this, yes, we are all absolutely sure.

You are talking to a scammer.

Please make a habit not to accept random people you don't know onto your friends list.

Ogami 4 Oct @ 2:24am

Originally posted by chefcook90:
Alright, so we're 100% positive on this?
There's absolutely no chance that scammers have upped their game and moved on to meta-scamming?

Why would they when this method works so well? Like in your case, even though you know its a scam and people tell you its a scam you still doubting it.
And a lot of people are far less cautious and just blindly believe what they are told.

chefcook90 4 Oct @ 2:26am

Originally posted by datCookie:
Originally posted by chefcook90:
Alright, so we're 100% positive on this?
There's absolutely no chance that scammers have upped their game and moved on to meta-scamming?

As per the last thread you made on this, yes, we are all absolutely sure.

You are talking to a scammer.

Please make a habit not to accept random people you don't know onto your friends list.

lol ok cool.

I just wanted to make sure, because I thought the idea of trying to guilt someone into giving up information by threatening to ban another use might be something that a scammer would do, but apparently no one has ever thought of it before.

~Ren~ 4 Oct @ 2:28am

Originally posted by chefcook90:
At this point it's 100% obvious that someone is trying to scam someone in this ongoing interaction I've been having, but the guy I've been chatting with seems so utterly baffled and confused by what's been going on, that I'm legitimately beginning to wonder if he's ALSO a victim of a scam.

Like, is there a scam, where if you report someone, a third party will pick up on the report and try to guilt you into giving up information by saying, "hey, I'm a steam moderator, and I'm going to ban this guy permanently unless you give us your information so we can clear this up."

Think about it, why would a moderator give you a warning before a ban? That makes no sense, they would just ban you and then tell you why you've been banned.

The above posts are right. Reread them and it will make sense. DO NOT give them any information they ask for, report and block, job done.

Scammers will use other hijacked accounts to try and scam other people, rinse and repeat.

chefcook90 4 Oct @ 2:31am

Originally posted by ~Ren~:
Originally posted by chefcook90:
At this point it's 100% obvious that someone is trying to scam someone in this ongoing interaction I've been having, but the guy I've been chatting with seems so utterly baffled and confused by what's been going on, that I'm legitimately beginning to wonder if he's ALSO a victim of a scam.

Like, is there a scam, where if you report someone, a third party will pick up on the report and try to guilt you into giving up information by saying, "hey, I'm a steam moderator, and I'm going to ban this guy permanently unless you give us your information so we can clear this up."

Think about it, why would a moderator give you a warning before a ban? That makes no sense, they would just ban you and then tell you why you've been banned.

The above posts are right. Reread them and it will make sense. DO NOT give them any information they ask for, report and block, job done.

Scammers will use other hijacked accounts to try and scam other people, rinse and repeat.

Oh don't worry, I haven't given any information and don't intend to.

I'm actually trying to collect more information on the scammers so I can compile a more thorough report.
I even have the friend code of the fake moderator.

Ogami 4 Oct @ 2:36am

The scammers are with 99% probability using hijacked accounts for this scam and not their own, so at most you get those stolen accounts banned.
The persons behind it never use their own main accounts, thats just where your items land at the end after going through multiple sub accounts.
But still cant hurt to report them.

chefcook90 4 Oct @ 2:37am

Originally posted by Ogami:
The scammers are with 99% probability using hijacked accounts for this scam and not their own, so at most you get those stolen accounts banned.
The persons behind it never use their own main accounts, thats just where your items land at the end after going through multiple sub accounts.
But still cant hurt to report them.

Thanks, will do :)

Oh by the way, that's part of what has me so confused - I don't have any items worth stealing - like I said in the other thread, I never use the marketplace for anything other than cards, and those are worth pennies.

Unless they're after my games, but I'm pretty sure those can't be traded between accounts.

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Chika Ogiue 4 Oct @ 2:51am

This scam is so common it's used to steal accounts on many platforms. There's a bunch of people currently falling for it on Twitter, for example.

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~Ren~ 4 Oct @ 2:57am

Originally posted by chefcook90:
I'm actually trying to collect more information on the scammers so I can compile a more thorough report.
I even have the friend code of the fake moderator.

In all honesty, I wouldn't waste my time with these people, report and block, let Valve deal with them. They have one intention, to steal from you.

You might think that you don't have items to steal, your account will be the target, it can then be used to scam other people, that's how it works.

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chefcook90 4 Oct @ 2:58am

Originally posted by ~Ren~:
Originally posted by chefcook90:
I'm actually trying to collect more information on the scammers so I can compile a more thorough report.
I even have the friend code of the fake moderator.

In all honesty, I wouldn't waste my time with these people, report and block, let Valve deal with them. They have one intention, to steal from you.

You might think that you don't have items to steal, your account is will be the target, it can then be used to scam other people, that's how it works.

Yeah, but wouldn't I have to like, give them my log in information and my email, and email PASSWORD so they could circumvent Steam Guard?

Who in their right mind would pass out that information to ANYONE?

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~Ren~ 4 Oct @ 3:02am

Originally posted by chefcook90:
Originally posted by ~Ren~:

In all honesty, I wouldn't waste my time with these people, report and block, let Valve deal with them. They have one intention, to steal from you.

You might think that you don't have items to steal, your account is will be the target, it can then be used to scam other people, that's how it works.
Yeah, but wouldn't I have to like, give them my log in information and my email, and email PASSWORD so they could circumvent Steam Guard?

Who in their right mind would pass out that information to ANYONE?

Unfortunately, people do, you only have to look how many people are caught out by this type of scam, you even asked a question yourself in another thread.

An innocent link can redirect you anywhere or download something nasty, key logger as an example, as soon as I'm contacted by a possible scammer, they are reported and on my block list they go, no further communication will be made with them.

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Chika Ogiue 4 Oct @ 6:57am

Originally posted by chefcook90:
Yeah, but wouldn't I have to like, give them my log in information and my email, and email PASSWORD so they could circumvent Steam Guard?

Who in their right mind would pass out that information to ANYONE?

The would more likely steal your session ID. But you'd be surprised, literally hundreds of thousands of people will HAPPILY hand over all of their log in credentials. It's why these scams are so common everywhere.

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