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💰[⇄]Wayne Buying Backpacks 💲💲💲 27 Oct, 2020 @ 1:51am
*Extremely Important Issue / Suggestion for Victims of Scams.
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Hello! I'm Wayne, a concerned trader on Steam.

I've never made a suggestion before, so lets make this quick and simple.

The option to allow / not allow, other users to subscribe to your profile comments section needs to be added as a setting.

Currently, anyone can go to any public comments profile, subscribe to the thread and get notifications on users who post on it, and use that information to scam, by impersonating users.

They add them, as soon as they get the notification, so the victim thinks its not a scammer.

I like the idea of having it there, subscribing to a profile is fine, but give us the option to not allow other users to get notifications on your profile comments. (Including the notifications you get, if you recently posted a comment on a profile that has turned off, "notifications on comments")

I'm standing up for this action, because I'm sick and tired of all the users that get scammed by users stealing my name and using the comments section on my profile to aid in stealing and scamming and defaming my name / account.

Please, take 2 seconds, share this with everyone, in the mean time, my profile comments will go private, in a attempt to save incent users items from being stolen, and to help spread this information.

If you're a Steam user, who has influence in your respected communities and your likeness could potentially be used to scam or harm another user, please, make your profile comments private and use a URL link to this suggestion thread, to explain in your most recent comment why you're doing it! (So that everyone who trys to comment, on all of your profiles, will see this!

Stay Healthy and Safe

- Wayne

*Edit, a few comments in, and its clear that Steam users want to see the world burn, this is an issue, its an issue for me, maybe not for you, but they're are definitely people out there with this problem. And regardless of what steps scammers could take to bypass it if it was implemented, currently its steam that is offering that service.

As for personal attacks, feel free to take it up with the bots and scammers who have stolen my name.

This will be my only involvement with this thread, aside from sharing it. Good luck.
Last edited by 💰[⇄]Wayne Buying Backpacks 💲💲💲; 27 Oct, 2020 @ 12:07pm
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Start_Running 27 Oct, 2020 @ 4:36am 
Originally posted by 💰⇄Wayne Buying Backpacks 💲 💲 💲:
Currently, anyone can go to any public comments profile, subscribe to the thread and get notifications on users who post on it, and use that information to scam, by impersonating users.
And?
If you don''t like random strangers seeing your profile coments...there are already privacy settings for that.

I like the idea of having it there, subscribing to a profile is fine, but give us the option to not allow other users to get notifications on your profile comments. (Including the notifications you get, if you recently posted a comment on a profile that has turned off, "notifications on comments")
This would change nothing.


I'm standing up for this action, because I'm sick and tired of all the users that get scammed by users stealing my name and using the comments section on my profile to aid in stealing and scamming and defaming my name / account.
Again. Your suggestion would change nothing about that. The setting that would, aklready exists.

Please, take 2 seconds, share this with everyone, in the mean time, my profile comments will go private, in a attempt to save incent users items from being stolen, and to help spread this information.
Thhen you're doing what can be done. At some point, though these innocents have to elarn to follow proper rules. Faker or not, it is iompossible to be scammed by using the trading system as it was intended and encouraged to use.

If you're a Steam user, who has influence in your respected communities and your likeness could potentially be used to scam or harm another user, please, make your profile comments private and use a URL link to this suggestion thread, to explain in your most recent comment why you're doing it! (So that everyone who trys to comment, on all of your profiles, will see this!

Stay Healthy and Safe

- Wayne
Better idea. Give a URL like to teh STeam Trading Guidelines.
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Brian9824 27 Oct, 2020 @ 5:21am 
Originally posted by 💰⇄Wayne Buying Backpacks 💲 💲 💲:
The option to allow / not allow, other users to subscribe to your profile comments section needs to be added as a setting.

Already exists - set it to friends only

Originally posted by 💰⇄Wayne Buying Backpacks 💲 💲 💲:
Currently, anyone can go to any public comments profile, subscribe to the thread and get notifications on users who post on it, and use that information to scam, by impersonating users.

Those scammers use automated tools and bots to change their profiles to match yours for that scam. It would be incredibly simple to use a basic screen scraper to bypass the notification so your idea wouldn't actually solve anything.

Originally posted by 💰⇄Wayne Buying Backpacks 💲 💲 💲:
I'm standing up for this action, because I'm sick and tired of all the users that get scammed by users stealing my name and using the comments section on my profile to aid in stealing and scamming and defaming my name / account.

No stealing would occur if you would stop trading off site and follow steams advice. Why should steam change their software because of you using 3rd party sites when the tools to protect your account and prevent this already exist.

If it doesn't fit in the trade window then don't trade. Problem solved.
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ElvisDeadly 27 Oct, 2020 @ 5:28am 
The way you are using trading,

Add me if you're selling your TF2/Dota2/CSGO items for Cash!
‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ People always want to know why large scale sellers always cash out through me, its simple, reputation and quick and easy cashout!

‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ Trade Offer
If you're looking to cash out, just add me, don't post on my profile

is in no way supported by Steam.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8912-WEYU-8454

The Steam trading interface does not support the transfer of money in any form. This includes Wallet credits, PayPal, gift cards or any other type of currency.
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Black Blade 27 Oct, 2020 @ 5:28am 
If anything I think what you may want to suggest is to simply add "profile owner" in your own comment section
Sounds like an easier and better way to solve this

Besides that the scammers are using bots, so they don't even need the "sub" they can just run something to read your comments every X time to see if something new is there

If you want something you can do now I recommend maybe making a Discord room for you, and just ask people that want to trade to go there, as they will be able to see who is the room owner and therefor know if someone is not you on there at least, or anything of that type
#4
Gilga ™ |Yonaguni| 27 Oct, 2020 @ 5:34am 
Lol, so OP is basically breaking the TOS and doing what most people would call scamming.....:cfacepalm:
#5
NUT. 27 Oct, 2020 @ 8:05am 
Just quit trading dude, you've sharked enough people already. Time to move on maybe?
#6
Gilga ™ |Yonaguni| 27 Oct, 2020 @ 1:34pm 
Originally posted by Dimitri Olga thunderpick.com:
Just quit trading dude, you've sharked enough people already. Time to move on maybe?

He isn`t even trading, he is selling and buying items for money, guess why other scammers are targeting him.

Just look at his guides, and how he is promoting scam sites.
#7
cSg|mc-Hotsauce 27 Oct, 2020 @ 1:36pm 
OP, saw your guide. You should look at this if you are using Inventory Helper...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/70xofs/warning_trusted_steam_inventory_helper_now/

Steam Economy Enhancer is fine though.

:qr:
Last edited by cSg|mc-Hotsauce; 27 Oct, 2020 @ 1:36pm
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76561198407601200 8 Nov, 2020 @ 6:47pm 
Originally posted by 💰⇄Wayne Buying Backpacks 💲 💲 💲:
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Hello! I'm Wayne, a concerned trader on Steam.

I've never made a suggestion before, so lets make this quick and simple.

The option to allow / not allow, other users to subscribe to your profile comments section needs to be added as a setting.

Currently, anyone can go to any public comments profile, subscribe to the thread and get notifications on users who post on it, and use that information to scam, by impersonating users.

They add them, as soon as they get the notification, so the victim thinks its not a scammer.

I like the idea of having it there, subscribing to a profile is fine, but give us the option to not allow other users to get notifications on your profile comments. (Including the notifications you get, if you recently posted a comment on a profile that has turned off, "notifications on comments")

I'm standing up for this action, because I'm sick and tired of all the users that get scammed by users stealing my name and using the comments section on my profile to aid in stealing and scamming and defaming my name / account.

Please, take 2 seconds, share this with everyone, in the mean time, my profile comments will go private, in a attempt to save incent users items from being stolen, and to help spread this information.

If you're a Steam user, who has influence in your respected communities and your likeness could potentially be used to scam or harm another user, please, make your profile comments private and use a URL link to this suggestion thread, to explain in your most recent comment why you're doing it! (So that everyone who trys to comment, on all of your profiles, will see this!

Stay Healthy and Safe

- Wayne

*Edit, a few comments in, and its clear that Steam users want to see the world burn, this is an issue, its an issue for me, maybe not for you, but they're are definitely people out there with this problem. And regardless of what steps scammers could take to bypass it if it was implemented, currently its steam that is offering that service.

As for personal attacks, feel free to take it up with the bots and scammers who have stolen my name.

This will be my only involvement with this thread, aside from sharing it. Good luck.

Nothing I see in your posts shows how someone could prevent impersonating you and still scamming another person. I have seen many of threads created describing methods of scamming, all involved the "victim" being gullible. You would think if one is so "respected" in their community that said community would at least have the common sense to verify that is in fact you, which again your suggestion does not prevent someone from impersonating you.

Originally posted by 大艺术家B/TF2K,GEMS:
add me want buy tf2k
First post on these forums and it is of course starting off as spam and you of course have links in your profile to trade bots.
Last edited by The Living Tribunal; 8 Nov, 2020 @ 6:49pm
#9
valpip 7 Dec, 2020 @ 5:25pm 
Originally posted by ElvisDeadly:
The way you are using trading,

Add me if you're selling your TF2/Dota2/CSGO items for Cash!
‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ People always want to know why large scale sellers always cash out through me, its simple, reputation and quick and easy cashout!

‎‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ Trade Offer
If you're looking to cash out, just add me, don't post on my profile

is in no way supported by Steam.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8912-WEYU-8454

The Steam trading interface does not support the transfer of money in any form. This includes Wallet credits, PayPal, gift cards or any other type of currency.

99 percent of traders do it LMAO
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76561198407601200 7 Dec, 2020 @ 10:04pm 
Originally posted by Valpip123EMY:
Originally posted by ElvisDeadly:
The way you are using trading,



is in no way supported by Steam.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8912-WEYU-8454

99 percent of traders do it LMAO

You make a very good point, which is why trading should be disabled entirely. After all, if according to you 99% of traders are going this route, this would nearly eliminate scams. I say "nearly" only because there's that pocket of folks who somehow manage to set the bar just a hair lower.

"Hi, i'm here today to warn you about people asking for your username and password who claim they're from support. I just wanted to warn you guys just in case".
#11
AustrAlien2010 7 Dec, 2020 @ 10:08pm 
This will not help. Because nothing stops them from making an automated script that does the exact same thing, without them subscribing to the comment section.

Your idea will not fix this issue, because being able to see new comments in the comment section, is the same as being able to be subscribed to it. Because instead of getting notified about a comment through Steam, they could still be notified about it, by an external web service, outside of Steam. It would make no difference, whether or not they can subscribe to it directly through Steam or not.

The only thing you can do is make it private, but right now it is public.

Originally posted by 💰⇄Wayne Buying ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ & Bps 💲:
This will be my only involvement with this thread, aside from sharing it. Good luck.

Then this is just spam, and you are unable to discuss anything, if you do it like that, and we may just as well remove all our replies, because they do not benefit you in any way, if you do not even read them. The least you should do, is be subscribed to your own thread, in order to be able to have a discussion.
Last edited by AustrAlien2010; 7 Dec, 2020 @ 10:47pm
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