Accepted Report: 76561197986926246 - ([TF2] Team Fortress 2 Items)

Scam Report

Report Type: [Money] PayPal scam or scam attempt
Virtual item type involved: [TF2] Team Fortress 2 Items

Accused profile: 76561197986926246 ()

Victim profile: 76561198065436693

What happened? Description:

I was going to ask him for a simple trade, or exchange of items. He then proposed the idea of buying my 2 unusuals for paypal money. He gave the price of $250, and that was around what I would be looking for. I then told him to send two payments, a $130, and a $120. He sent the 130, then the 120. I traded him both unusuals, and then he said he had to go. He removed me, made his profile private, and listed the unusuals on outpost. He quicksold the unusuals to get rid of the evidence that he had them. I checked my email, and saw that I had gotten invoices. He sent me a request for me to pay him money, and not him paying money.​

Provide Evidence:

These are the pictures, the evidence!​

http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/21432548 (Proof of outpost trade, him quickselling the unusuals)

I need a full screen picture of your trade history. In that picture I need to see at least one trade from the previous day.

Here you are

Wait, sorry. my whole trade history from the day before?
or my whole trade history?

That is fine.
Marking ready for review.

Will this be solved soon?

Hello @Beejay Simpson,

It's important that everyone understand that SteamRep is a small volunteer organization helping a 75-million member community. Not every report will receive a response (and definitely not always right away). Not even Valve can handle all of the community's reports and they have incredible income. We're definitely not going to be able to do the same level of investigation on every individual report and you shouldn't expect that. Even if we tripled our staff, there's simply no volunteer group that can handle such volume and the growth in this scene. (Gone are the days of a mere dozen trade servers to monitor and an in-game TF2 trade window.)

We prioritize reports for investigation based on a number of factors-- we will publish those after our staff finishes rounding out some of the priorities and we run them by our partner admins. We'll also be updating the scam report form to set expectations accordingly for new submitters.

One key thing we prioritize for investigation, though, is the quantity of scam reports submitted against an account. By submitting a report against a repeat offender, you help ensure they do get banned as quickly as possible through the community and provide guidance to other traders on your experience with them. SteamRep provides a public capture of these reports so traders can educate themselves and do better research even if each report can't be analyzed right away. We feel it's better to have these situations logged rather than lost entirely (e.g. if you report a violation on Steam, it helps Valve know quantities, but may not help traders understand what actually happened so they can make their own decisions to protect themselves).

That was a quick response and informative, thanks

Aaaand how about now?