The bots look at Outpost just like you do. They rarely post on Outpost because the Outpost staff have effectively broken the effectiveness of their posts with red warnings. They add people on Steam, privately where Outpost can't reach them. An Outpost ban can't stop them from sending you STEAM (not Outpost) friend requests.

Thank you for the response. More generally, should I be reporting unproven offers first or should I be leaving a comment on a trade asking for proof?

Are they valid to list as a current offer? In particular, are they valid when they're very unlikely to actually happen? An example to consider: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/21108225 http://i.imgur.com/kc0WRLs.jpg I was thinking that that's a pretty false offer (8 pure) since a very clean one wants 7 ( http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/20368543 ), as do two others on Outpost. On the other hand, however, he could argue that it's just a "potential" offer. Please give opinions.

Flying crapcake! Look at these! http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19487413 He really be Raxshi-ing it up with those hijacked unusuals now.

I'm also adding this hat to consideration (from the kind sir who commented on the SteamRep forum). http://www.tf2outpost.com/item/440,2646614427,382,5 After all of this, [F2P] Lone Knight is still very willingly buying scammed unusuals. Consider that seller's account. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561198125304239/friends/ All friends with the scammer and his customers. No TF2 hours and just a fresh account with two unusuals... I don't believe it! At the time of me typing these other two unusuals just went straight there!

http://www.tf2outpost.com/item/440,2647043392,102,5
http://www.tf2outpost.com/item/440,2647043386,150,5

I was quite honestly about to list them and say, "In before they go to [F2P] Lone Knight." He's fencing right now!

I'd like to also attach this as a separate post (different person). http://www.tf2outpost.com/backpack/76561198002317976 There's plenty of stuff there that's straight from the scammer.

With the last one, I think that you meant, perhaps, this specific trade. http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/20115998 (Made anew quickly. http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/20121288 ) [From the SteamRep reports, I know that the scammer's definitely the "I need a proof" scammer (may or may not be phishy as well).] There's also his Hoodie from the scammer, to the fence. http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/20130063 This Bunsen: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/20109537 Prancer's, Batter's, Mountain Cap and Reggaelator: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19974280 All of these: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/20089088 All of these from a few days ago now: http://www.tf2outpost.com/user/94815 I got down to May 30th before giving up with him. He's an enormous fence for this scammer. I went to SteamRep and found where he happily buys from the scammer. http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561198060561462-tf2-team-fortress-2-items.66633/ It's okay because he himself isn't the scammer. ;) In one of the other SteamRep reports he even freely admits to fencing for the ConnecteD account too. Did I say "fencing" there? Of course, I meant, "Repeatedly buying from someone who he believes is a perfectly innocent trader who just happens to regularly quick-sell all of his items only to decide that he wants to mysteriously acquire a few hundred dollars more in items just after selling whatever he previously had."

Did the first comment here come from someone who didn't even read the post? There is no single "he" here, unless if he means the scammer but he's selling quickly and certainly not hoarding unusuals. ... Wait, I know that "You're just jealous!" attitude. Let's look into his history. http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19863850 http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19695166 Whatever did he buy those with? I'm going to go ahead and call shark for now.

Edit: More fencing from [F2P] Lone Knight: From the above scammer: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19913775 From the same ( http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198126309006 ) scammer (but that account's already tagged): http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19855168 From phisher: http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19848973 He's been doing this for a few weeks, at least, yet he's still completely unaware of where those magical quick-sells are coming from. ;) He's basically just started trying to be the next Raxshi.

He added me. http://imgur.com/a/Erv6W He's happy to keep fencing. He has no problem with it and views it as perfectly acceptable because other people do it too.

I came across this trade. http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19694877 Look at that first offer. That led me to that person's profile page. http://www.tf2outpost.com/user/211982 You can see what he has been up to. In his offer on that first trade, he shows evidence of success.

Regarding that particular example, he's (deliberately) not actually saying that it's easy to make one now. The offer that people doubted resulted from the standard exploitation of another person's ignorance. http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/19515975 It'd be closer to sharking than scamming, wouldn't it?

Hello,

Short version: Am I allowed to submit an appeal for someone else who doesn't know anything about this and hasn't been online in almost a year? He's innocent and was impersonated. I can prove it.

I just checked my SteamRep and found that "zgeal" has been marked as a scammer due to this recent report. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/groups/tf2outpost/discussions/15/810938811009575440/

This is zgeal's main account, which is referred to in his SourceOP reputation thread. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/zgeal http://forums.sourceop.com/threads/110345-zgeal-s-rep-thread

This is the impersonator's account who is friends with the fake middleman in the faulty report. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/zgeaI

These accounts look the same here on Outpost, but if you open them, you find that zgeal's URL finishes with (in capital letters) "ZGEAL" while the impersonator ends with "ZGEAI" (I instead of L).

My biggest piece of evidence is the following proof that the real zgeal wasn't involved: He was last online 322 days ago, long before the hat in question even existed.

So I can prove his innocence and my only question now is: Am I allowed to submit an appeal on his behalf? Of course I'd modify this to be in the appropriate format.

He sold earbuds to me a long time ago and I had no problems. I'm morally opposed to ignoring this since he wasn't the scammer.