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Evidence Provided Report: 76561198168376592 - ([None] No items)

Discussion in 'Pre-2017 Reports' started by Silyus, Aug 16, 2015.

  1. Silyus

    Silyus New User

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    Scam Report

    Report Type: [Rep Fraud] Impersonation with intent to defraud
    Virtual item type involved: [None] No items

    Accused profile: 76561198168376592

    Victim profile: 76561197969912736

    What happened? Description:
    I'm a long date trader, currently active in the steam games and dota2 items community.
    Yesterday this guy added me and copycat my username and avatar.
    He didn't respond to my messages, so i unfriended, reported and blocked him.

    Chances are that it's a smurf acocunt just made on purpose with the intent of use my reputation in order to take advantage of other traders.

    I attached a screenshot, however if you are quick enough you should be able to see that on his profile right now​

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    The screenshot of his profile, where you can see both his username and his avatar​

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  2. Silyus

    Silyus New User

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    And...we got the first victim.
    This morning i found these "nice" messages in some pictures that i uploaded on steam:

    It's highly possible that he promised to that guy an arcana using my nick.
    I'm trying to contact that victim in order to clear the things up and i'm filing a full report to Valve, but i kindly require fast action on your side too.
    He's damaging the whole community scamming people and ruining my reputation.

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  4. Silyus

    Silyus New User

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    In order to minimize the damage, i'm planning to change at least my avatar in the near future.
    I'm posting here a screen of my current profile for future reference.

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    Silyus New User

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    In response to my change of avatar, the reported person has changed his avatar/name (probably back to his original state) as well as his custom url.
    It's not a problem for me since i linked everywhere his steamid64 url and not his custom url, so all my warnings (in my profile frontpage, in many forums, etc..) are still valid.
    If you search his reputation on steamrep you can still see his (mine) old avatar, which is probably already cached.

    In the attached screenshot you can see how his profile looks like now.
    As you can see his displayed name is Marc josef M Ocampo, which is exactly how his old custom url was: marcjosefocampo

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  7. Chride2k8

    Chride2k8 Retired Staff

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    Thank you for the report.

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  8. Silyus

    Silyus New User

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    The friend list of the scammer is filled with "Silyus" users, two of them have my old avatar, one my new one avatar.
    It's clear that he is ready for the next chunk of scams.
    For future reference this is my current profile:
    current_profile.png

    If you see the scammer friendlist right now, you can see a bunch of users who have my nick, my old avatar, or both:
    newev_1.png newev_2.png newev_3.png

    Even the user with my avatar but with a different name have my nick in one of his previous nicks:
    evd_4.png


    Actually, there is more.
    Making a quick research around you can see other users who have/had the same nick and avatar that i had:
    Despite none of them are present in the scammer friendlist, those two users:
    are presents in 3 of 4 of those impersonators (the second one even had my nickname at a certain point).
    Of course those users are present in the scammer friendlist.

    My opinion is that the scammer use many smurf accounts to perform his scams, and all the named accounts are involved
  9. Silyus

    Silyus New User

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    Silyus New User

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