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I'll copy paste the exact words of a Steamrep Moderator - "This evidence proves that he scammed someone but your name was not mentioned as the victim".
So obviously a Moderator admits that a certain person is a scammer but you can't prove who he scammed off.
If You can't help someome retrieve his stollen items at least can't you ban the accused person because - "This evidence proves he scammed someone" ?

We must establish who the scam was attempted to, in order to be sure the report is legit. hence we normally want the victim to make the report. In some circumstances someone else can make the report for them, but then we need the victims confirmation.

Indeed, otherwise your time for having fun gets contaminated with that, and that will suck out the joy for your other activities.

There is already a report. I am just asking because the accused person was buying backpacks through paypal and is still actively trading. Not gonna describe or put much details. The scammed people didn't get their items - report was made around 3 months ago. The point is that the accused person was lured by another steam user to admit. That steam user convinced him to scam people together. Also the accused person admited in steam chat (there was a screenshot of that chat ) that he is scamming people and how he is targeting and scamming them .

I am just pissed and frustrated because even if the items of the scammed people cant be restored then at least that scammer should not be able to continue trading,especially when he admited what he is doing and how he does it. But then again there must be a proof for scamming a certain person in order to ban someone? No matter there is a proof that he admited his doings and that he will continue to do it?

I am not trying to make a report here. I'm trying to find some answers of how are and will be banned such scammers. There is an evidence of some kind of scam scheme as I mentioned above. I am not an admin and certainly not trying to mess with Your job but Imo this/such person should be banned.
Thanks In Advance

How do i become a middle man?

*Facepalm*
Use the search function and see the answer.you will need to build up your reputation on a PARTNER COMMUNITY then they will decide if you become their MM for said community (this doesnt happen overnight,im pretty sure it will take a long time to become an MM).
Also steamrep doeskin have any sort of middlemen, only partner community's have their designated MM.

If a websites promises a service that requires a payment, the website claims its permanent, changes their policy after you pay, and takes the same service away and now says you have to pay monthly for it would this be considered scamming if tf2 items were involved?

We've had rogue websites/owners before. Most times its telling to sell something but never delivers. Hard to fight against, we've spread the word on it back then and such. Problem is often that a website can point to any account saying it is the owner, so its like whack a mole and we've had cases that it pointed to random accounts, for the money wasn't flowing thru steam anyways. Some tricks remain, but I'm not going to discuss that.

Someone promises pay later an entry fee for a raffle and he gets the slots/tickets but he won't pay the entry fee later even though he promised so he lied.
So my question is, do it count as a scam and if it does, can it be reported to SteamRep with all evidence?

Very easy to set a rule on raffles that says: Only paid slots count.

but you don't happen to have that "agreement" do you?

Well the thing is that someone would buy 11 slots/tickets but he can't buy them now because his keys are untradeable for now so he pays them later.
And no, I haven't done the agreement yet. I just wanted to know it is valid scam to report before I do the agreement so if he lies, I can report him for scamming.

That agreement is at that time that it was made, or MAYBE a admission after the fact. But to say "I just wanted to know it is valid scam to report before I do the agreement so if he lies, I can report him for scamming." is a awful high expectation after the fact.

I would like to ask a question, is sharking considered scamming in some way? is sharking similar to lowballing? Please give me an explanation of what sharking is for I am very very confused about it

The definition of sharking changes depending on who and which community you ask. As for SteamRep, I found this:

The information is a bit dated, but still works. Low balling is not quite the same thing as sharking.
My personal definition of sharking is trading low value items for high value items from a new player or misinformed player. I don't normally consider a trade a shark unless the difference in value is more than a few keys. A good median would be the value of a Bill's if we are talking TF2 items.

TL;DR
There is no clear, widely accepted definition of sharking that I know of. Do some research on your stuff before you trade it to your first offer.

Thanks!

on average how long does it take for reports to be reviewed.. i have 3 reports up all spread out and most recent was today. just wondering cause they could be scamming people as we speak