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How to recognize a scammer
By zongivila and 1 collaborators
This guide will help you identify a scammer just by their profile, with all the details explained clearly and as simple as possible.
   
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Valve Employee/Steam Support impersonators
1)Valve Employee/Steam Support impersonator
This above is what FAKE steam support looks like:

>There is no such thing as "Steam Support Certificate of Eligibility(Here is screenshot of steam community moderator confirming it)

>They will refer to you as "sir"
>They will have something like "In non-steam game Steamworks Developer" or "Steamworks | Item Verification" on profile
>They will have "Rules" on profile explaining how some items are glitched/duplicated and they can verify it for you
>Fake artwork of them showing what "verifying" looks like
>Also if you deny to give them your items they will threaten you how they will "trade ban" or "VAC ban" so you would be scared.

REMINDER:Real Valve Employee's will never add you and ask for your items.
REMINDER:Don't forget to report fake employee's/steam support(with evidence) for impersonating or contact steam moderators https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/discussions/moderators

This is how REAL Valve Employee's profile looks like:



>They both have Valve Employee badge
>They are in official Valve group

NOTICE:There are some of Valve Employee's that use other badges example:


Click on Badges and you will find Valve Employee badge there.
Famous youtuber/streamer and bigger traders impersonators
2) As the title says there are a lot of people impersonating famous youtubers, traders, streamers here are the list of some most common impersonated names:
Streamers -Izakoo,Hotted,mOE,steel.
Youtubers -Anomaly,MojoonPC,McSkillet,Nick Bunyun.
Bigger traders -Zsozsika,purotexnuk,¡ChiLi,Marzu,TA SAFE,Rich_54321,Joe,.mops,Jaidennis Serafin,Lujza,Bodi4ka

Let's start with impersonators:


Things that scammers profile have:
>If you click on Inventory on the right(with smaller arrow) most of the time if not always scammers have it private.(1st picture)

>In 1st and 4th picture in profile description they will have link that leads to "their" inventory and they usually put "My Inventory" "Storage Inventory" "Vault Inventory"

>When you click that link it will show you big inventory with a lot of higher tier expensive items,a lot of knives,dragon lores etc

>Fake artowork showcase of items as showed in picture number 4,artwork of "counter offering",pc setup.

>They will have "Trading rules","Reasons why you should trust me" "Payout methods"

>Fake payout methods.Example:They will start telling you steam wallet code but firstly you need to send them your item and you will get rest of code when they receive your item(code is fake or already used)

>Farmed +reps saying:good and polite trader,helped me cashout,thank you for <insert ammount of money>,thank you for paypal and others

>They have high steam level bot accounts that are for leveling up steam,BTC⇄Keys.

This is what bots friendslist look like full of scammers:


Q:How can I find original trader's,youtuber's,streamer's account?

A:To find an original account go to google and simply type steam community(nick of famous youtuber,streamer,trader) example:
Q:How can I find who really owns inventory that scammer is showing in profile description?

A:Simply click on "My storage" "My inventory" then click on the top left on their nick like shown on pictures under
And you will know original owner.

REMINDER:Original youtuber,streamer,bigger trader will never add you and ask if they can borrow skins for a video or to take screenshot of it.
Gambling/Case opening site owner impersonators
3)Gambling/Case opening site owner impersonators

-Impersonators

-How to recognize fake mod/admin of gambling/case opening site?
>They put "Official mod/admin" of <enter site name> in nick/profile description
>Real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ site doesn't have steam group
>They as well have "Why should you trust me" section on profile with bunch of fake screenshots
>Farmed +reps
>Verified Administrator Account ✔✔






-<<<< About this guy:
>Already banned on steamrep
>Created his own fake group where he does fake giveaways
>Confirmation from real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ twitter account that he is not an admin


REMINDER:Real owners of gambling/case opening sites don't put ADMIN/MOD in nicks if they are looking for sponsorship or you won their giveaway they will contact you on twiter/email they dont personally add people.
Last words
To wrap it all up;
Don't let your greed consume you and drag you down, and don't be hesitant to block someone if you are sure that the person is a scammer, after all, prevention is better than cure.

"Best advice is, Don't trade at all if u don't get any item in return. period!
Wether they want u to gamble, just insta block 'em" - Limitless

Feel free to ask any questions below, and if you found this guide helpful, be sure to rate it, it means a lot to us since we worked really hard on the guide.

And if you are new to the trading, check out this guide;
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=969752734
28 Comments
Vova2k  [author] 2 May, 2021 @ 11:28pm 
<3
IzuMiya 2 May, 2021 @ 11:26pm 
Thank you, very good sir
romodude40 8 Oct, 2019 @ 9:29am 
mama
boosted$ilver3 26 Dec, 2018 @ 10:47am 
Joe just has added me lol :shamil:
Wolfsmaul-GER 24 Oct, 2018 @ 6:08am 
here is one of them https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/Duke-Schyuler-Steam
he said i had duplicated items and threatened with an COMPLETE BAN he has the same fake certificate and the wrong badge, he sent me pictures of how my account is blocked
i lost 4 TF2 items to that as.shole but they costed only around 0,20€ - 2,00€
linus 22 May, 2018 @ 9:37am 
there is a tipo. "they will contact you on twiter/email they dont " twitter with on t
zongivila  [author] 7 Dec, 2017 @ 9:31am 
Explained at same part 2nd Q & A
Vaulty 7 Dec, 2017 @ 9:29am 
ok, what about people sending link to other's inv saying it's theirs?

>Hello
>This is my inv steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/id/killahinstinct_/inventory
>Very legit no scam
zongivila  [author] 7 Dec, 2017 @ 9:26am 
It's at "Famous youtuber/streamer" part 4th picture