Indeed. Some of the scammers won't even have many games on the account, since they use an alternate account when scamming.
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Pretty much. And because retards who get scammed will rail at the real person about how much of a scammer they are.
editing the numbers to match what the scam account has won't work because people need the profile page to match as closely as possible, so that if they link you to the real ST profile and you click on the steam profile from there you can't tell the difference.
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It's not that difficult - it would be even easier now with profile backgrounds and badges out as each profile is now a bit more original than the next. It all comes down to the sheer number of hours and the like. Of course, this is all under the assumption that we're dealing with an incredibly dumb person prone to getting scammed by a mere impersonator in the first place.
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Still, if it's a question on the value and, for lack of a better term, "believe-ability" of the account, all it would take is a guy with a reasonable amount of hours, let's say, 700+, to copy the profile description of the popular trader and take away those 300 or so hours. It doesn't cost that much at all to build up a healthy supply of badges either.
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Because it's a reminder to make the obvious checks - particularly go to their Steamgifts profile, click the linky on there and see if it leads to the person you're about to trade with. A little tricky to fake 1,000 hours of gametime.
Most impersonators have private profiles, which they refuse to reveal to prospective traders, which should be a giant red flag,
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Because they have a big chance to be impersonated. I do that (well not exactly that) since I was scammed first time -very cheap- but was what made me check everything I can to avoid me and others being scammed. And now I have an impersonator.
What's wrong with warning?
EDIT: oh shit, I necreoed that? Cause the search function didn't notice how old that was...
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ever since i put that warning on my profile, there has been a noticeable drop of successful scams by my impersonators.
a while back, i removed it when i didn't hear of any other attempts at impersonations, but it started up again, so i put the warning back and it died down a bit.
i honestly think it helps
edit: i just realized i posted on a necroed thread, lol
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Why do they feel the need to place stuff like this on their profile?
"BEWARE OF SCAMMERS" - check to see if you're trading with the real StoutShako69
I have:
1000+ hours in TF2
21 badges
1337 comments/friends/hookers/etc.
It just doesn't make any sense to me. If I were trying to impersonate someone for instance, I would just copy exactly what they write there and edit the numbers to correspond with my alternate, "fake" profile. Writing that stuff on your profile just seems useless - shouldn't it go directly on a rep thread or something instead?
Sorry, no giveaway this time. I'll have something soon.
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