Scamming a scammer, question

If I scam someone out of items they stole from another user and return them to the user from whom they were stolen with their confirmation, will I get an SR tag?

This is a serious question; tired of seeing some of these scammers and with my rep I can get some of the items back for the people who lost them.

I didn't realize trying to help people get items that were stolen from them made me a "robin hood wannabe", but okay.

Fair point, but when he has three scam reports against him and even confesses to it in the steam chat, I don't really think thats much of an option.

Don't forget, steam support punish scammers as well. I really doubt you want a trade banned slapped on your account.

Here is a story,

So person1 advertises his StatTrak™ Desert Eagle | Hypnotic MW on csgolounge, me being interested contacts him asking if I can buy it. He tells me that he is getting higher offers and will get back to me in a few hours. The time comes and Person1 contacts me, sounding very stressed he tells that person2 had scammed him. I try and comfort him "yeah we all get scammed at one point" ect.. and I ask him for the scammers profile so i can report him aswell. I try to add person2 (the scammer) and he accepts, I talk to him for about 5 minutes, just scaring him and telling him how he will be banned for a very long time. He freaks out, try's to defend him self by saying he was holding the deagle until he negotiates with one of his friend, person3, about the price. I tell person2 that he should return the gun to person1 untill he figures out the right amount of money to send. Person2 tells me that he cant re'add person1 because person1 blocked him. He than asks if i can hold the skin and return it to person1.

I have never done any MiddleMan-ing before but I accepted his offer and he gave me the skin. Person1 hasnt contacted me since and now I am stuck with a $40 skin.

So.. while we are on the topic, is my story a ban able offense?

sigh.
NEVER accept goods via via. We as admins have instructions to NOT accept the stolen goods, but let the scammers themselves return it to their victims. We may contact the victims to let them unblock the scammer etc. But WE never touch them.

Now its your problem to get the item to person1. you will have to find out who that was. Once you start such its YOUR job to make sure all gets done correctly.
Your possible actions:
1. Contact the "scammer" and tell him to handle it after advice here (can link to here)
2. If you are really sure it was a scam, find out who person1 was, and you can return the item. Make sure you have your documentation tho. (see below)

Also, often such conversations are done without proving anything, so it has happened many times that somebody really wasn't scammed, then the "victim" tells the story to somebody that he got "scammed" and then the 3rd party is contacting the "scammer" to get the items back, but then without checking if it was really scammed, what the agreement was, etc. What then happens is basically scaring the "scammer" out of their items, and then it becomes a bigger problem, for we DO consider that a scamming act.

There is never an exception to this.
All you'll end up doing is not getting your items back, and then reported.
Don't make the situation worse then it already is.

Why did you bump a month old topic that was already resolved -.-?

Actually, someone else bumped it and the message was deleted. I'm just going to lock this.