I got scammed by a guy who copied down another profile. He has the same name(Captain Deadman), same profil picture and on his profile description he linked the good guys steamgifts profile. I went first. Sent him the humble gift link, but the tf2 keys didnt arrive. Then Dan came, the hero at the humble bundle support team. 15 minutes after i wrote to the support he saved the day and i got back my games. I am new in this trading world and i learnd a lot thanks to this asshole. I reported him and added the good guy(with the good profile) on steam to warn him. I wanted to share this, so you won't do this mistake. Be careful guys.
P.S ye, im not an english professor :D

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It's CDO ... that way it is in alphabetical order ...

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CCD

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At first it was quite hard on you, it seems, but at least Dan came and helped bring you to a happy ending. *Dodges rocks*

But in all seriousness now, this is good news! And hopefully others can learn from this whole ordeal.

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Hue.

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Are you sure the keys you "got back" are working?

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I activated them instantly. I wanted to trade it, but it is still better on my account than on the scammers. I think he didn't activated it, he wanted to trade it.

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Nice. HB's support can reverse gifts, but it will be the same key as the one in the gift.

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After i activated the keys i worte to the steam support too. Is there any chance to remove the game from my account and give me another code?

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No. You are more likely to end up with the game being removed and no code. Sorry. XD

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Not any chance to get another - they can only remove it from your account.

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ah...
at least i have the game, not the scammer
thanks for the answer
i hope they wont remove it without asking me

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And on the brighter side ... the scammer might get in trouble when he tries trading the gift link.

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No, should cancel your ticket. They might just remove the game from your account... Seriously, they might.

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without asking me? O.o
i will cancel, and write another where i clearly tell them if the cant give me another then do not remove the game
thanks for the help

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Yes, without asking you if you hint lightly that you want to remove it. Seriously shouldn't risk it with another ticket, steam's support is THAT special. and no need to ask, they will NOT give you another key, this has been looked at numerous times and there will never be a change in the outcome, you won't be the exception nor you are special. If you think about it, if they made exceptions they would be swarmed by such requests, and also it would be exploited.

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ok then, it's time to play some new games :D
i tought they can do it, at least with thoose who didn't installed and played the game
i'm still happy with this ending.

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HB can deactivate gifts and send you a new key. I once had trouble with a key that didn't seem to redeem and contacted them; they sent me a replacement. Shortly afterwards, in rapid succession, my old key suddenly started working, then the game was invalidated and removed from my library, then I used the new key to replace it. Presumably when they issue you a new key, they invalidate the old one, but it takes a little while to kick in.

So they do have the ability to revoke keys and issue new ones; contacting them if you get scammed is always a good idea.

(On the other hand, people could use this in scams -- go first, send you a HIB key, then turn around and give HIB a sob-story to get them to revoke it... presumably they won't keep doing this over and over for the same person, at least.)

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I accidentally redeemed a HB game (an old one which still used oAuth) on my alt account and contacted HB support. They revoked that key and gave me a new one without hassle. Maybe I was just lucky...

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exactly, i would link the profile but i believe it is against the rules

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i thought "happy end" was something dirty.... im an old pervert man T.T anyways, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Otla5157c "dont trust anyone... 'cause you only live once"

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that would be an interesting support with the other kind of happy ending ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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yes, HB support is really super. I wrote to support, because I was trading with one guy and send him game. He said game was used, so I tought somebody claimed it. I bought ToD for being idiot. I wrote to HB support cuz I wanted to know who claimed it. I got answer in 10 minutes and found out it was this guy friend. He sait he is sorry, he gave me back my ToD and he gave me bonus game for problems.

Some people are nice, and HB support really fast :) I wish other support (yeah, you Steamgifts, as well as steam) would be fast like HB

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good to read stories like this :)

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I am good trader, never scammed anybody. i got scammed 2 times... first time when I started with trading, second time about week later... I thought he is friend :) It is interesting for me, how can people scam. Like, don't you feel guilty? You just robbed somebody... It is crime. But yeah, what I can expect in this world.

I don't belive to anybody and thanks to last experience with "friend" I will not believe in any friend I don't know personaly or don't have any experiences with. I have some friends in who I can trust for 100% even when I don't know them personaly... But it is really small amout. After last experiences, it is even fewer :D haha, but I was stupid :D I deserved that scam...

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Am I the only one who had to wait at least 3-4 days for their answer? But I totally agree with the nice part!

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still less than other support

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Yeah cough Steam cough

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cough steamgifts as well cough fucking tuberculose

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Well I can understand SG. They are a few people doing this on their free time out of passion or for w/e reason.
Steam on the other hand, is a company who pays their employees to be supports in order to support their customers and what do we get? Some automated messages totally irrelevant to your problem.

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I must be the lucky guy that got an answer from Steam Support within a week of sending a ticket. xD

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Nope, you're not the only one. Have similar story, but with no scammers, just bad luck..
Gave someone a link to one OAuth game (you know, when instead of keys you were redeeming games straight to Steam Accounts), he said nothing appears. Wrote to Support.
Unfortunately, it took them a day or two to answer.

Turned out, I already used that key, but humble-page still showed it as unredeemed.
They deleted game from my account (without asking if they should) and made link work properly.

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Shit always can happen. In general I'd say their Support is more than decent compared to many other companies.

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Thanks :)

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I'm glad I trade game key for game key, trying for TF2/CSGO keys sounds very risky.

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Did you show them any proof of the scam? I mean, a screenshot or something.

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Nop, i just asked them that do i have a chance to get back my games that i gifted away, after 15 minutes i had the cd keys again

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That sounds kinda reverse-exploitable.

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Good for you. I learned my lesson in the past and won't trade unless both items are in the window. There are exceptions when a trusted member of the community is involved but then I'll make sure it really is that person, odds are I'm contacting them anyways.

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And I thought someone promised you a happy ending and didn't give it to you. Jokes aside, its good you reported him, report him to Steamrep to if possible.

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i will, thanks for the advice

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This scammer already have 8 reports in steamrep. He impersonating users with high reputation here in steamgifts.

http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198155750735

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1 of them is me, i didn't checked this site, newbie mistake :(

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He impersonated me aswell. But i don´t report him in steamrep ..i just warn other users in my profile (don´t think steamrep report make something - he deserve trade ban or something.)

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Steamrep reports only give info about scammer on their site, which is in no affiliate with Valve, somewhat unfortunately :(

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Heh, funny how that shit even copies that :Treat people how you would like to be treated yourself " quote.

Guess he wants us to scam him.

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he would deserve it, after that maybe he would stop scamming

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I got a full body massage once with a happy ending.

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