Scammers

and i thought this was a call out post , good job not getting scammed op

this poll is perfectly tied which is really sad

The real question is why do you think you can get The Division for 30€ without being scammed? D:

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Never get scammed on this site yet cause I never accept random invites, I had 1 bad trade exp but I won't consider it a scam. You just have to look out for all the signs and know exactly who you are trading with.

Just curious, how did they try to scam you exactly? Might be helpful to others.

Kudos for being smarter than the scammers.
and for not making this another call-out thread XD

Never been scammed myself, but I only trade with very close friends, too. :)

ok i'm off i have school in a couple of hours. sad day for a gamer no division for me. i might save up and buy the legit game from steam. good night

i still need that, why no one wants to scam me? ,_,

I tried posting a thread and it took less than 5 minutes for someone to message me to try and scam me. I made a point that if they have good rep I'll go first, but they had -2 and insisted that I go first. :C

Oh right, when I insisted they go first, they tried to push like... deadbits keys or something like that at me, to prove that they were for real. Like, come on... your indigala free crap doesn't prove anything....

I have never got scammed...

I have never bothered to trade as im too poor to actually buy stuff worth trading...

unfortunately when you have little or no rep scammers will come out in droves. It's best to trade stuff you don't care about at first, like bundle games for cheap amounts of cards.. Build up your rep as a trustworthy trader.

It's hard to get scammed once you have enough rep to require most of your traders to go first.. It can still happen but becomes much harder..

Yeah someone once tried to scam me, i wasted about 30 min of his time playing along with his scam :P

I've gotten scammed before, yeah. Just by having a talk with the other guy, deciding they're a generally OK guy, having my key go first (key for key trade) and then the guy just deleting and blocking me. He made me lose trust in humanity. Now I am like OP and am super-cautious. (not on steamgifts tho)

The first ever trade I made was back when Don't Starve first came out, it gave an extra copy so I thought I'd trade it for a cheap game, made a thread, some guy said he had ES: Oblivion, I was like "Hell yeah!" immediately did it and viola, he disappeared.

I was the biggest sucker, thankfully it didn't put me off trading and I got much smarter, much quicker.

I remember only once, when I had no rep. It was a regular bundle key trade and "since we both have no rep, you go first, I have been scammed before" scam. It was just a bit too good of a deal (both keys were cheap, but his would have been still worth twice or so). Also, during the conversation, the way he talked implied him going first was out of question: "we both have no rep, so you go first", "it's not worth getting negative feedback for a cheap key, so you go first" and similar. That triggered some bells. When I checked he didn't even have a sg account.

Yea some Guys allready tryd to Scam me. (Have a small notice in my SteamProfile for them)
Did not read all the reply's here so my example maybe got posted allready but yea:

Done a Giveaway in the Forums, after announce who won the GA i got 2 Friendrequests at Steam, both had the same Name like the winner had.
After checking both Profiles, i figured out that they renamed their accounts just a few min Ago.
I was act like i dont know what happend, and both of them guys send me messages after accepted the requests.
Asked me for the Key they won in the Giveaway few min ago. (one of them told me he will report me if i do not send the key)
My answer was: "Heres your Key: YOU GOT BLOCKED AND BLACKLISTED!"
Legit winner got his Key, was send him a friend request on my own, to be 100% sure hes the real one ;)

cheers,
Planlos

So, 105 people were scammers, while the other 105 people were scammed xD?

They not only tried, they succeeded. But I'm not complaining, because I did know the risks and never risked more than I can afford to lose.

"I'm the moderator of SG, we need giveaway admins and we need people to donate games."

on sg admins can delete negative comments, so yes, scammers are allowed. you must be prepared. yersterday i got offer with free ga games and man wanted my game from bundle. so i said i can give you for 2 games and he laughted a lot - he said that i m funny XD but i can;t give him -rep because admin will delete it because "trade not completed" XD

So far I've been lucky not to get scammed. But I also haven't traded really worthfull games. Alot of leftovers which I wouldn't really care about if I get them scammed anyway :-)

trying scamming is allowed - you even can't give him -rep because "trade not completed" and you will get 5 days suspension XD dat rulez.

but really, how do you expect to get The Division for only 30€.. obviously you won't get real offers for that.

OMG there is bad people on the internets!?!?! Really?!!? I thought we could sing Kumbaya and do trust falls all together... :O

some one want to trade his csgo key for my game key,, i opend his steam profile and found that ""he is banned from trade in steam"" xD