You are now a real trader :D.
It sucks but it happens at least once to each of us :/.
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Thank you, Cj! Any chance I can get a signed certificate?
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Looks like you're not the only one that scumwad has tried to impersonate!
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Yeah, I recognize at least half the names on his former nicks list! He gets around.
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I'm surprised the account hasn't been closed/deleted by now.
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Then you don't know Steam support. They don't care at all about impersonators and scammers. Unless one of them is stupid enough to scam somebody in a Steam gift to Steam gift transaction, they just let them do whatever they want.
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Nice. I guess it shows how little that Valve thinks of trading. :(
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They actually care about trading... but only when it doesn't net them any profit.
Confirmed by their new trade policy about VAC-enabled games.
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To be completely fair, I think it would be very difficult to prove beyond a doubt that someone is maliciously impersonating, which is probably what is required for a ban. But I could be giving Vilve too much credit.
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Name history and chat logs can prove it easily.
Or they would, if Valve would save chat logs. I swear they are the only company outside security firms that don't do it. Probably because they would have more support work, which would mean they'd have to actually hire support personnel.
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One of the reasons my trading career was very brief.
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That's a shame. From what I can tell, I've been pretty lucky in not encountering scammers during my trading career. However, this might be because I don't really trade for profit, just games I want, and usually just bundle games at that.
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Well at least you are among other great traders looking at this persons former names. Good luck.
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Of course. It just seems jarring when the shit that happens to you is another person. :(
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Yeah, happened to me two or three times along the way. I just repeatedly tried to friend them on Steam. It seemed awkward enough, maybe, for them to cut it out.
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The guy already went private and changed his avatar, what a scumbag.
Gl trading
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Thank you. He was actually already private when I first found out about him, he just had my name and avatar. Pretty lazy. :P
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I traded for a while over on gog.com but stopped when that pest of scammers and impersonators got overhand there :/
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I had an impersonator one time, glad it didn't last long... He still has my old avatar though x.x
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Woah... Is the name of the game a sign? You want us to kill the impersonator? :P
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think the scammer will just copy your warning banner?
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It actually looks like he has moved on to another victim already, but even if he had not, I doubt it. As far as I can tell, the whole point of impersonating someone is to take advantage of their positive rep: In practice, the impersonator would message someone on steam, send them a trade request for whatever the victim wants(doesn't matter what it is since the scammer won't deliver) in return for something valuable, and link them to MY sg profile- with all its positive rep- as "proof" that they are trustworthy.
Once I changed my avatar and synced my profile, that warning banner appeared on my SG profile, and anyone linked there by the impersonator would see it, reminding them to take precautions and very probably losing the scammer his mark. Continuing to impersonate me would be screwing himself over, even if he tried adding the warning banner to his avatar.
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But then at least the warning is on both profiles. Doesn't hurt.
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Damn, is that all? From the title I thought I was going to read some salacious sex story. ;)
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I remember that suggestion! Still seems like a good idea. If each user could choose whether to display the banner on their page, I don't see a downside at all. Oh well...
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Message received (through the giveaway title).
I hope that nobody will get scammed.
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So true.... Scammers, impersonators, cheaters, all those bad people.... There are so many of them... :(
Thanks for the gib!
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Luckily I never had an impersonator, I do think the people who impersonate other users are even less then sh#t.
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Sigh steam never care about their customer
I knew some website that have no right click, so they can't save & copy our avatars
I don't know if it'll prevent, but at least it'll kinda help(?)
Well but again, people are rotten from the core
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I knew some website that have no right click, so they can't save & copy our avatars
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I know I'm stupid, I don't even understand what I'm saying :P
Sorry for my stupidity
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Disabling right-click doesn't prevent anything but silly user who doesn't know anything about websites and PCs in general.
Regardless what people think about scammers, those are usually at least semi-smart humans so such thing would not be any problem for them.
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Semi-smart humans
I'm glad I'm stupid like Patrick then xD
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If they're a lazy or ignorant scammer, that might help, but for most others it's only a screengrab & crop away, unfortunately. :/
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That's why I said kinda help
I immediately regret my decision to say that
Oh well, if only school taught their students for never scam other people & how to prevent scam xD
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Trading is what originally brought me to steamgifts, and while my activity in that regard has dropped off slightly and moved over to barter.vg, I pride myself in having built up a good reputation score by being courteous and honest in all my dealings. I knew impersonators existed, but when I started trading a year ago I never dreamed any of them would find my humble account worthy of shaming.
But long story short, it came to my attention earlier today that one of these wretched, scum-sucking parasites had slapped my own fair avatar up on his profile and tried to scam innocent traders. I immediately took action by reporting him and posting warning messages on my steam profile, barter.vg, and my trade thread here on SG. Finally, I regretfully added a warning banner to my beautiful avatar.
Why these demons among us do what they do I will never know, but at least I can offer up a related gib.
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