Impersonating Unik now
http://www.steamgifts.com/user/Unik/feedback
Still not ban. -.- We need more reports!
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I see that somebody already informed Unik about this impersonator. Anyway I updated it on "list of victims" and added Unik on it...
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Maybe you find this useful: http://steamcommunity.com/id/RedjeveI/namehistory
It's, suposedly, his previous account (already trade banned).
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Are you sure that this is same person? I ask because there are many scammers around. Sadly that old account is private and can't see nothing further inside it... :/
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Yes, now I see. It's true, next day (on this one he got ban 7th february) he started impersonate from this new account. I just hope that this account will be banned soon, but then I also hope that we will bust him fast from 3rd account (because probably he will not stop after 2nd ban).
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Seems like he was successful with scamming people through impersonating other users. It will always be easy to trick trusting/stupid/careless people. (This is the first time that I was able to use steam's reporting feature.)
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I just edited this thread, it's not anymore about "me and my impersonator", now is about global one (as title already says). Also, since it's confirmed kinda 99% that this guy used old Steam profile for same "job" I added infos about that in this thread, too. I hope now it looks much more clear. I will edit it and add new infos every day, I am fallowing him, so I will notice when he jump on another "victim". And you guys, please, keep bumping this thread and keep reporting him...
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And here I thought only Muiiin is using this little trick of I and l...
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I've been dealing with this f**ker for weeks, I got -2 reputation because of him. I'd literally kill him if I ever caught him IRL. I wish Steam would actually care about their customers instead of taking shitty precautions to protect themselves from responsibility.
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Actually, maybe just one. First negative rep gave you a guy (with not actually clever idea). Maybe you should contact him and tell him that you are informed about impersonator and that he can delete his -rep. I also got 2 negative reps because of this scammer, but I added those two guys and politely explained them what is going on (on end it resulted they both changed his negative reps into positive ones, I didn't even asked for that, but nevermind lol). And I totally agree with you that Steam should case at least little more about customers. They care only about their own as*es and how to prevent users (traders) to earn even 1 cent via Steam (no matter if they will also get something via fees)... :/
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I was impersonated by his old account on 02/02/2016 I'm sure of the date as it's the same day I got warned and posted on Steamrep.
I have a gut feeling he has one major, big account with lot's of (high value) games that he hides through family sharing while using these lesser accounts to do his impersonating.
He impersonated NeverOnline with his old account on 03/02/2016 as that's the date I asked my first trader to ad something on my feedback page:
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This user has also played as:
Antarael
CalamityDusk
Gwynhbleidd
WanChan
Rasiel
alienM
Unik
Sylvir
AllRoCol
cg sucks dick for server money
Lol.
Always double check this before trading with anybody!!!!
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Wow what an asshole. Surely someone in valve would be able to trace these accounts to its origin.
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I just made a report on steamrep website. I hope that other scammed users can do same (it takes just few minutes). :)
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Investigating this case deeper (very very deeper) I think I found that this guy is doing this (impersonating) almost 1 year from many accounts. I can't say that I am 100%, but 99.9% for sure (same technic of writing and also same grammar style). Here are his old banned profiles which I found (for sure there are more, but I found this for now):
http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198175661869
http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198176817083
This days I investigated to find his main account and found this by checking friend list of "suspected main account".
P.S. I have huge reasons to suspect which account is his main one (yesterday via Steam trading forums he scammed one guy and he transferred game which he took to main account, it's still there). I must say that he doesn't has Steamgifts account for main Steam account neither...
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One main and camouflaged body with lot's of tentacles..
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Oh, I started to believe it's whole organization when I dig deeper. I found more then 20 already Steam trade banned (and also steamrep banned) accounts when I tracked suspected main account and this other two... :/
P.S. This started to be witch hunt. I will stop this once this account receive deserved Steam trade ban...
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Who is that blind???
1000 nick history, only 20 games (90% free), level 3, 4 steam items...
it seems like any big trader? No. So why guys get scammed from him?
Thanks btw
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Nice, the user attempted to scam me.
At this point, I don't think it's calling out, right? Is it?
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I won't lie. I'm pretty sure I impersonated myself at least a couple of times.
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I was just gonna mention you forgot the "this comment cant be redeemed" thing then i saw sagamuga
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And then your mind probably went "crap, opportunity missed..."
Reminder that this reply cannot be claimed
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Naaaaaah, well. A little bit. But I told you I'd hold back from this event till the last few days :P
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if user has in his/her nick small letter "L" he is making almost same url putting instead big letter "i"
At least MuIIins is save :3
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Few minutes ago he just caused first Unik's negative rep - again he "jumped" on naive trader beginner...
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Hey alienM, thanks for keeping up all this work with this thread and your efforts on clearance of victims' reputation. I was told about the impersonation on me 4 days ago, which I believe it was the day it started on me, and reported him immediately to Steam, but of course, they did nothing, and now it cost me my first ever negative rep here on steamgifts.com after 3 years of hard work of trading with the most honest practices (2 years here + 1 year prior to that on a large trading group on Steam). I also saw your reports on steamrep.com though they are only from a few days ago –during the time he was impersonating me, not when he started doing this to you or others. Unfortunately, the ones that ultimately can do the best to stop this is Steam, and they don't really do much about it, even less act on it in a timely matter, as this kind of thing is time-sensitive and by the time they get to it, it is usually too late for the victim(s).
It is very sad that some people do this. I hope this guy that got scammed by my impersonator and left me negative rep will listen and understand. I left him a message on his Steam profile and sent him and friend request. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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I hope that you will resolve your negative rep with scammed guy, if he doesn't believe you, be free to tell him to add me on Steam, I can also try to talk with him until he understand situation...
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Thank you, alienM. I have resolved it; this person understood and was nice about it and removed the negative rep and I gave him some tips on trading with more caution to hopefully help prevent future scams.
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Eipici received another -rep. Having chat with "IanHanmore" to help him + some advice to future trading
E: -rep is gone.
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Yeah, I noticed yesterday, as I was checking his profile several times a day during my impersonation. Meanwhile, our Steam reports are "collecting dust", lost somewhere in Steam's hard drives. To make it worse, the trade ban he got in his other profile you linked, is only temporary -it falls off a few weeks later, so he can then go back and use it again for scamming once that red stain disappears.
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We're gonna need more people reporting the Steam Account -.- Still not ban yet
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How many reports it needs?, it' has been a long time since the first report, and how many damage it has done?
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A totally random number, as it needs only one support personnel to have a few free minutes and still some motivation left to open the user reports tab.
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A week ago, appeared global impersonator who is impersonating many Steamgifts users who have high numbers of positive repsand zero negative. He is taking their profile picture and fake there profile with one old trick - if user has in his/her nick small letter "L" he is making almost same url putting instead big letter "i" (he did that in 60% of cases). This guy doesn't have own Steamgifts profile, he just find "victim" and change his Steam profile (avatar, nick, custom url and description with url on "victim" inside it), his comments are locked (he seems very clever, you can't even comment on his screenshot or review, that's also locked), he has only one comment and that one he wrote for himself "I do not use Steam Profile reputation since it's useless. Only exchange rep in SteamTrades". He already caused few negative reps to innocent Steamgifts users (I already tried to clear some of them with talking with scammed people, for now only 1 negative rep is still damaging one of "victims"). Also, seems that this is not his first Steam account which he use for scamming. Apparently, he had another account which was trade banned one day before he started scam from this one. We, as community, need to unite with massive reports on Steam (because he don't have own Steamgifts account, but he does damage to Steamgifts users) so Steam can ban his second account, too. Please, bump this thread for sake of all Steamgifts traders - he destroy reputation of honest old traders and also scam naive new users.
| steam3ID: [U:1:290639102]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:145319551
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198250904830
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198250904830
| steam3ID: [U:1:302224505]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:1:151112252
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198262490233
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198262490233
Traders impersonated by this guy from his OLD profile (since 2nd february, can't find info for further history):
LostSoulVL 2nd february
NeverOnline 3rd february
SweetDalilah 5th february
BabaORiley 5th february
CeleryMan727 5th february
Itolsan 5th february
GuillermoV 5th february
CyberMarco 6th february
Olarte 6th february
Admiral1 7th february
Redjevel 7th february
Asperyules 7th february
Traders impersonated by this guy from his NEW profile (since 8th february to 18th february):
Ogih 8th february
Garamond 9th february
Gwynhbleidd 11st february
WanChan 11st february
alienM 13rd february
RasieI 14th february
Antarael 14th february
AllRoCol 14th february
Sylvir 14th february
CalamityDusk 16th february
Unik 17th february
Eipici 21st february
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