Why the hell do you people scam?!

It's nice to take advantage of stupid people.

If I'm not mistaken, the steamtrades profile he linked is not his. From what I've heard, that's usually one of the best indications that someone is a scammer.

Never, ever go first, no matter what the case may be.

Still, it kinda suck to be scammed by a highrep profile. Did you report him on steamrep?

What do you mean? For personal gain of course. Not that I ever scammed, or ever will, but it's obvious. And if it's easy, you can get easily tempted if you're weak or want something really bad. But sucks to be you mate, hope you learned. You can always grab a middleman from Steamrep's trusted community middleman list

Why do people scam? Because there are always plenty of idiots who fall for even the dumbest scam. As long as people are stupid enough to fall for their tricks, scammers will never stop.

Profile?

Alwas have proof when trading large amounts of keys/games..screenshots/video, its common sense :P btw i feel you :(

Dude that sucks. If all of the 47 Metro Last Light's I bought yesterday worked, I would totally give you one!

I just want to point out that you shouldn't say "you people". That' addressing us, and the majority of us are not scammers

The person I got scammed with, has not been online for 50 days.

The thing I dont get, is everyone is calling the other guy a scammer, but he gave the guy a legitimate key, who knows what country you need to be in the activate it, but its a key none the less. What kind of scammer gives a game?

I couldn't see it mentioned but maybe I missed it.

If you believed someone when he said "This is my profile on SteamTrades" and sent you a link with the same avatar, then you didn't get scammed by that person, you got scammed by an impersonator.

Always check the Steam profile of the person you're talking to and copy it in to the steamrep.com search page. If that's clean, take the ID from there and paste it in on www.steamtrades.com/user/id/ to see his REAL steamtrades profile (if he has one. I doubt most scammers do). If he gives you any crap about saying "Oh this is my alt account" then get him to log his main on and trade with that. He won't.

You need to know what you're doing before trading or it's not just a matter of if, but when you'll get scammed.

EG for me, click my name in chat and it'll send you to http://steamcommunity.com/id/acorpse/. Copy and paste that into http://www.steamrep.com and it'll give you an overview page which says if I've been marked as a scammer. Take the long number ID (in my case, 76561198018255525) and paste it in to Steamtrades, http://www.steamtrades.com/user/id/76561198018255525 and it'll tell you if I have a steamtrades profile. I do, but many scammers won't, or it'll be listed with poor rep.

Do NOT go first unless they have a clean streamrep profile and good (EG 20 positive, no negative) steamtrades rep.

Because they profit from it. Obviously. And because people keep falling for it, so it pays off.

people scam because it works... it isn't that hard to understand, especially since you say "you worked hard for those $30"... 82% of the Indonesian population earn under $3.50 USD a day and under 44% earn less than $2 a day... be grateful you can at least get $30 spare.

no its not right to scam, but some are driven to it out of lack of choice... that is why piracy exists

your trade was a gift? since you can only buy gifts from steam itself, just tell steam you want refund no mater what they have to give it to you they can look in your purchase history and see it was bought. bam you got your money back and he lost the game

Which game you want?

Go report him and give your key to steam support so they can remove the game from any account he activated your key on . Similar case http://i40.tinypic.com/2rx7btf.jpg notice that steam removed the game from his account

Key always first

YOU PEOPLE?!

What was the game you wanted?

Keep a checklist when doing high profile trades that cannot be done on the steam trade window. You need to check out a person's profile thoroughly if you are going into such trades. Check their number of games (not free to play games), date the account was created, number of friends. Use the steam rep browser integration of chrome to directly go to that person's steamrep page or use enhanced steam addon for your browser. Take a look there, get the steam ID 64 (the one with the long number) and see his profile on steam trades. Take plenty of screenshots and record everything.

Even after all this, some might still fall through the cracks and scam you, but it will reduce the chances.

Everyone gets scammed once or twice. If you learned something from this experience, you can minimize or eliminate getting scammed again in the future.

That's the risk of trading with keys

"+rep" comment on steam profile doesn't mean anything

Something to remember:

Humans are evil.

Keys always frist, dont rust +rep pages guys(they build rep to later scam), also dont trade keys, gifts are way safe.

Because they have troubles in their mind.