Archived 76561198049520383 Happy001^^

Victim:
|steamID: ChowderBowl
|steamID32: STEAM_0:1:43805188
|steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198047876105
|customURL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/ChowderBowl
|steamrepURL: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198047876105
SourceOp forum account (if applicable): ChowderBowl

Scammer:
|steamID: Happy001^^
|steamID32: STEAM_0:1:44627327
|steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049520383
|customURL:
|steamrepURL: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198049520383

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Well, gentlemen, it appears I've fallen victim to yet another possibly first-time scammer. I guess it's better to sacrifice a bit of my money to save other's money...
Anywho, the fellow went by the name Happy001^^.
He had been on my friends list for a while. I think I had traded him in the past for other items.
Well, he approached me with an offer on my Bill's Hat. It was painted Team Spirit and it was my pride.
He put up sixty bucks as an offer.
That was a little sketchy to me. It was quite a high offer. I figured: if he wanted it for that much, he can feel free to take it for that much.
Cautious from my previous scamming mishap, I gave him a good, hard, look-down.
I asked him some questions, "how do you plan getting this money to me", "have you got any positive reputation", "what's the email you use for PayPal", etc.
I checked him on Steam Rep and he had no negative reputation.
Something that raised a little red flag was when he asked "the money can go to steam?"
As if he hasn't traded with money before.
I informed him you can't make Steam Fund transactions, and we carried on.
I gave him my PayPal email and he claims to have sent the funds to me.
I noticed I hadn't received any payment in PayPal.
That alarmed me slightly, but I hadn't yet given him the Bill's.
I brought this up to him and he told me the funds were indeed spent and that, because it was a weekend, PayPal would not pass the funds over.
That sounded a bit suspicious, so I did a bit of research.
Apparently, yes: PayPal does not complete transactions on weekends.
This being my first trade with PayPal, I wasn't aware of how it worked.
He said if the money transaction hadn't worked, he would retrade me. That reassured me a bit, but I was still suspicious.
I asked if he could wait until Monday when the funds would supposedly arrive, and he responded with no, as I could possibly scam him.
I accepted it, because I am an idiot, and gave him a final warning.
I gave him a tag on my friends list as "Possible Scammer".

I left for a bit to do something called "Real Life" and came back to notice the Possible Scammer tag on my friends list was gone.
I was shocked as hell. That meant he unfriended me, and I assumed the worst.
Because Momma didn't raise no fool, I kept the chat window open after we had traded and clicked on his name and avatar in the top left.
I went red with fury and concern as I noticed something.
His name and avatar were completely different from the last time I saw him.
His new name was You[Noob] and his avatar was no longer a devlish yellow smiley face on a black background. It was now a girl/woman taking a picture of herself.
This was a huge cause for alarm, so Super Sleuth Chowder put on his fedora and took out his magnifying glass to see if he could scope out some clues.

I started by checking his backpack.
Not a single Bill's Hat inside.
It's fine. Just a glitch not showing he had gotten it yet.
It once happened to me when I bought an Idiot Box.

I then checked comments on his profile.
Awfully specific reputation comments existed.
Awfully specific comments involving saying he's not a scammer and thanking him for money.
The specificness was alarming, so I checked some of the profiles of those commentors.
I checked backpacks which seemed to be legitimate and some reputation comments left by other traders.
There's no way those profiles could be alts of Happy001^^. No one man would go through the trouble of doing all that to steal ten dollars.
Well...
One might...

Next, I took to friending the people who left the comments and interrogating asking them a few questions.
I've gotten to one so far who goes by the name Buy>Robots destroyed (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198068797211/) and the chat log is shown below.
He was quite rude, but rude doesn't mean scammer.

I then went to a fellow who left a comment thanking Happy for money. The comment was left around 1 o'clock of the same day I traded away my Bill's.
I had traded Happy around 11 o'clock of that day.
Boy.
So, I checked him out.
His name's You are s¤ Funny^^ (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198046765779)
Profile made a month before Happy, played same games as him, played TF2 for 300 hours, had several groups...
Seemed convincing enough.
I checked his backpack and saw something that absolutely horrified me.
A Team Spirit Bill's Hat at the dead top of his backpack.
It's fine! No cause for alarm! A pure coincidence!
I tried reassuring myself.
I checked the fellows backpack on backpack.tf (http://backpack.tf/profiles/76561198046765779) which provides a convenient history of items in one's backpack.
I checked the Bill's Hat's history and nearly threw up. (http://backpack.tf/item/211126616)
That hat was owned by me.

That meant that Happy had traded my Bill's Hat to Funny.
I checked Happy's current backpack and compared it with his Backpack's history.
He hadn't gotten a single thing out of the trade. He gave it away for free.
Upon inspection of Happy's friends list once again, I had noticed that Happy and Funny had been friends since Happy made his account.


That was EXTREMELY suspicious.
Could Happy be Funny's alt?
I mean, Funny has more items and plays the same games as Happy...
God...

Well, I'm an idiot, and below are some screenshots and chatlogs as proof.
Further proof may come along as I converse with his friends.
Thank you gents for your time, and I hope this fellow gets whatever it is that he deserves.

-ChowderBowl

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Chatlogs:

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Saturday, February 9, 2013
10:14 AM - Happy001^^: hey
10:15 AM - Happy001^^: do you want to sell your bill for money?
10:15 AM - ChowderBowl: I might be willing to.
10:15 AM - Happy001^^: i give you 60 $?
10:15 AM - Happy001^^: hm?
10:15 AM - ChowderBowl: I'd be willing to do that
10:16 AM - Happy001^^: oky
10:16 AM - ChowderBowl: How'd you plan getting the money to me?
10:17 AM - Happy001^^: i can pay with paypal
10:17 AM - ChowderBowl: Have you got any reputation?
10:17 AM - ChowderBowl: Positive rep?
10:17 AM - Happy001^^: yes
10:17 AM - Happy001^^: i'm not scammer
10:17 AM - ChowderBowl: I sure hope not.
10:18 AM - ChowderBowl: Give me a second.
10:18 AM - Happy001^^: okay
10:19 AM - ChowderBowl: Alright.
10:19 AM - Happy001^^: trade?
10:20 AM - ChowderBowl: Yes sir
You have accepted the trade request from Happy001^^.
10:20 AM - ChowderBowl: First off, what's your Pay Pal account?
10:21 AM - Happy001^^: a sec
10:21 AM - ChowderBowl: Take your time
10:23 AM - Happy001^^: oh sorry you've asked username
10:23 AM - ChowderBowl: Yes.
10:23 AM - Happy001^^: it's bobcat17
10:23 AM - Happy001^^: i
10:23 AM - Happy001^^: i'm ready
10:24 AM - Happy001^^: and you?
10:24 AM - ChowderBowl: Give me a moment
10:24 AM - Happy001^^: okay
10:26 AM - ChowderBowl: Would you be willing to send the money first?
10:27 AM - Happy001^^: i spend you the half of the money now and the other half after the trade
10:27 AM - Happy001^^: its deal?
10:27 AM - ChowderBowl: Hm...
10:27 AM - ChowderBowl: Alright.
10:28 AM - Happy001^^: the money can go to steam?
10:28 AM - ChowderBowl: No, it has to go through PayPal
10:28 AM - Happy001^^: okay
10:28 AM - Happy001^^: whats your paypal account?
10:29 AM - ChowderBowl: My email for payPal would be [REMOVED]
10:29 AM - Happy001^^: okay
10:29 AM - Happy001^^: one moment
10:30 AM - Happy001^^: i've spend it (30$)
10:31 AM - Happy001^^: alright
10:31 AM - Happy001^^: trade?
10:31 AM - ChowderBowl: Are you sure?
10:31 AM - Happy001^^: yes
10:32 AM - ChowderBowl: It's not telling me I recieved any Payments
10:32 AM - Happy001^^: but its spended
10:32 AM - ChowderBowl: What's your payPal email?
10:32 AM - Happy001^^: [email protected]
10:34 AM - ChowderBowl: Hm...
10:34 AM - Happy001^^: dude i've spend the money so give the hat please
10:34 AM - ChowderBowl: It's still telling me my balance is $0.00
10:35 AM - Happy001^^: because its weekend
10:35 AM - Happy001^^: banks working slower
10:36 AM - ChowderBowl: Oh, alright.
10:36 AM - ChowderBowl: Using Bank or credit card?
10:36 AM - ChowderBowl: You used bank, yes?
10:37 AM - Happy001^^: credit card
10:37 AM - Happy001^^: its not okay?
10:37 AM - ChowderBowl: It's fine.
10:37 AM - ChowderBowl: Sorry I'm taking so long, just want to be sure.
10:37 AM - Happy001^^: if you dont receive the money i will retrade you
10:38 AM - ChowderBowl: You sure?
10:38 AM - Happy001^^: yesű
10:38 AM - Happy001^^: yes
10:38 AM - ChowderBowl: You entered the email adress correctly?
10:39 AM - Happy001^^: i think
10:39 AM - Happy001^^: yes
10:39 AM - ChowderBowl: Check your recent activity real quick.
10:41 AM - ChowderBowl: Right. So on Monday, I should recieve the moneys, yes?
10:41 AM - ChowderBowl: Or sometime soon?
10:41 AM - Happy001^^: yes
10:41 AM - Happy001^^: monday
10:42 AM - ChowderBowl: So would you be willing to wait until then?
10:43 AM - Happy001^^: no because you can fool me
10:43 AM - Happy001^^: man the money is spended
10:44 AM - Happy001^^: i will retrade you, if you don't receive the money
10:44 AM - ChowderBowl: Right...
10:44 AM - ChowderBowl: I trust you.
10:44 AM - ChowderBowl: I have your Steam account.
10:44 AM - Happy001^^: i know
10:45 AM - ChowderBowl: Last time I got scammed, the fellow was banned from nearly forty servers and groups and was removed of his trading privelages.
10:45 AM - ChowderBowl: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Ifrarkhan225/
10:46 AM - Happy001^^: but i'm not scammer
10:46 AM - ChowderBowl: I hope you've truly sent those funds, Happy.
10:46 AM - ChowderBowl: Enjoy.
10:46 AM - Happy001^^: thanks dude
10:46 AM - Happy001^^: enjoy the money
10:46 AM - Happy001^^: from monday
10:46 AM - ChowderBowl: Provided I get it.
10:46 AM - ChowderBowl: If it does get here, than thank you.
Happy001^^ is now Offline.

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Saturday, February 9, 2013
3:51 PM - Buy>Robots destroyed: what
3:51 PM - Buy>Robots destroyed: u want
3:51 PM - ChowderBowl: Hey
3:51 PM - ChowderBowl: Um, out of curiosity.
3:52 PM - ChowderBowl: Do you recall a fellow going by the name Happy001^^ trading you?
3:52 PM - Buy>Robots destroyed: on
3:52 PM - ChowderBowl: You gave him rep.
3:52 PM - ChowderBowl: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198049520383
3:52 PM - Buy>Robots destroyed: yea
3:52 PM - ChowderBowl: What did you trade the fellow for?
3:52 PM - Buy>Robots destroyed: Your mom
3:53 PM - ChowderBowl: Charming.
3:53 PM - Buy>Robots destroyed: Thx^^
3:53 PM - ChowderBowl: Well, issue is this fellow might be a scammer and might have taken a Bill's from me, and I was curious as to what he had traded you that was worth rep.
3:53 PM - Buy>Robots destroyed: bye niggah
3:54 PM - ChowderBowl: Oh.
3:54 PM - ChowderBowl: Alright
Buy>Robots destroyed is now Offline.

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Right, apparently the fellow's already been marked.
http://steamrep.com/search?q=76561198049520383

Just thought I'd bring that up so we could close this up, or whatever.
Especially seeing how this is more than a month old.