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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.