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Paulusi

So the guy who tried to scam me, fool me changed his name. I gave him a negative rep on his profile. Because i denied to get scammed and because i wrote the truth, he sent me a revenge negative rep and a report (as he said). Of course i reported him both on steamtrades and Steam, added him in my blocklist.

The smart*** does the following "trick". His friends, his alts and his friends' alts are being used to add him rep on steamtrades and his profile. He had not made a single trade through steamtrades for a month (although he was offering many games) and yet he was receiving rep by lvl 1 accounts full of the free games! That guy is amazing i tell you!

I checked his profile today to see if he has been banned or more of his old friends have added him reputation on his profile page. I noticed that he changed his "profile name", his "real" name and his location (although he kept the same country). When i clicked on the arrow to see what names he had also used before ("This user has also played as:"), i could see none apart his current name!

How did he manage to hide his alias?

10 years ago*

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Dandey

it's a trick to change your name in a space( like this " ") and like this you can delete your alias history

10 years ago
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DavidSarif

This is calling out and should be dealt with in private, with support...

edit : since I'm nosy I had a look at your SteamTrades profile, the only bad feedback you have seems to have been given 3 weeks ago, is that it ?

If so, it seems like you guys did not trade, did you ?

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Paulusi

of course not.

  • i asked him, how many cards for a certain game?
  • he said, 3
  • i said, we have an agreement
  • we go on chat, he asks 4
  • i say 3
  • he insists on 4 saying that my cards worth nothing (lies, he had already checked my profile as he did with all the others)
  • i asked, did we agreed before? why you change it?
  • he started his s***ty explanations and ended saying, so i want 4 now
  • i say, do you tend to do this frequently? to agree on something in the forums and then change the offer?
  • the moment i said that he started to flame, threaten, flame, threaten.

in my report i wrote "an attempt to foolish me". did i make any mistakes?

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PandaPI

That is not a scam, and that is not really a good reason to give someone a negative rep. He changed his mind on the price, he has the right to do that. Sure agreeing to one price on the forums and then changing it once you're in steam chat isn't cool, but its no reason to give the guy a negative rep. Especially over a trade as pitiful as a couple cards.

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CaligoClarus

You need to be banned for false repping on ST is what needs to happen.

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AngryErpel

that is NOT scamm. False reports are not fair.

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Axelflox

The what? You call that a scam? Come on...
That's just being not clear with the price, you could have said no and look for another trader, or renegotiate.

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vendarkius

Damn if you can remove your name history, the scammers are gonna go crazy.

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bugzkilla

add a tag like: (scammer) so you know it's him

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kravan

You should be able to see his name history

http://steamcommunity.com/id/(his ID)/namehistory

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Paulusi

It gives me an error saying that the certain profile was not found

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bugzkilla

I checked, same name

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Paulusi

he get only the name he currently has right?

in my report i have his previous name (and before that he had about 6-7 more) but now that name is nowhere!

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oujisan2236

this

sounds very childish.

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BoGG

The problem here is he never scammed you or even tried to scam you.. to disagree on a deal and then to not do the deal is in no way scamming. And you're the one who did the most wrong by giving him a negative rep when you never actually traded, and add to that you did it with a childish reason. Stop whining, learn to trade..

Most people who left that guy +rep have 120+ games and have themselves 20+ positive rep.. that's what you call lvl1 accounts full of free games ?

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Rosewell

Scammer? c'mon, he only asked you to add 1 card.. jeez.
You could say no, and move on.

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nath2000wild

BUt that 1 cardz I played 30 mins for!?! i rally worcked hard for It know?

On a more serious not, I guess OP just doesn't have enough experience with trades. It's still not a nice thing to change the price, but to report someone because he asks for 1 card....?

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JoaoWho

Both sides are getting weird

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KillingArts
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he is not a scammer, if he asks for 4 cards instead of 3, lol.

if he really has false rep, then you can report him for that. but report him for this extra card he asked you for... you can't be serious...

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n3m

Once upon a time I purchased three 4-packs for a guy who in his thread was offering 13 keys for all of them, but in trading windows he put only 11 keys and once I asked wtf? - he went offline, edited his thread and deleted me from friends. And you know what? i didn't leave -rep for that because I haven't lost anything. Sure, that wasn't cool, but not a scam yet.

And since you two have not completed a single trade at all, your -rep are practically fake (both). Also pretty sure there is no way to erase nickname history. To see name history either use http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/namehistory or http://steamcommunity.com/id/(his custom ID)/namehistory

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Mallorn

Though its a shitty thing to do, this happens, but its not a scam.
You should always agree on the forum which cards youre offering. That way he'll know if you are offering crappy 5 cents cards or better ones.
It will happen again. Just cancel the trade and move on.
And remove the -rep

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Closed 10 years ago by Paulusi.