Rejected Appeal: 76561198030026090 - (Nikriontra / BANNED BY SR)

Appeal for BANNED BY SR

Steam profile: 76561198030026090 (Nikriontra)

Appeal Plea: I am innocent of all listed offenses
Appeal Reason: [Process] Mistake - Admin misunderstood evidence or made a mistake

Victim Repayment: No, I committed no fraud or had no direct victims
Previous Appeals: No, this is my first appeal here​

Alternate Accounts:

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Appeal description:

Hello,

I just discovered this website. For the record, I no longer partake in trades since I no longer play Team Fortress 2 and don't play other competitive Valve games such as Dota 2 and CS:GO. I just don't want others to be wary of me in case I do decide to return to the trading foray (Highly unlikely.) I just want this all sorted out.

I was banned because I was and I quote: "a member of a fake SR Middleman Group." I was invited to said group by a scammer I had met on Team Fortress 2, referring to user: "http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198050873798." The guy had scammed me of a hat or something (I genuinely forgot.) However he felt a bit bad for scamming me so he added me on Steam and gave me a bit of compensation (not enough to cover my losses.) I noticed he had a huge TF2 inventory and being the young naive fool at the time I asked him how he amassed such an impressive collection of TF2 items. He was reluctant to share his secrets but we got on friendly terms.

A bit later, he invited me into a "Middleman group" that he said could bring us lots of items and money. (For the record, I still don't know what a middleman group does.) I was very hesitant but he managed to convince me and said that I did not have to do anything. I thought "why not?" and joined. Naturally afterwards, I heard nothing from him. I don't know if the group actually successfully took part in any scams but I assure you that I had absolutely nothing to do with them. I don't know how to prove my innocence. I have not talked to the scammer in a REALLY LONG time. (I think the last time we talked was three years ago.)

The picture I have uploaded with this appeal is a screenshot of the fake Steam Middleman group in question. I left the group a long time ago and its only member is the scammer's alt account, referring to user: "http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198072569148." I believe there was only one or two other members but they left the group quite early on.

Link to group: "http://steamcommunity.com/groups/sr_Middlemen"

I am not the kind of person to scam people. I did attempt a couple of scams (none of them were successful) but after I stopped communicating to the scammer I stopped attempting. I stopped playing Team Fortress 2 sometime in 2012 due to unrelated frustations. I stopped using connected trade networks such as tf2trade, tf2outpost etc as well. Ever since then I have not engaged in trades and primarily use my Steam account to accumulate and play games, not cosmetic items for Valve games.

I hope this can all be sorted out nice and easy. I can't provide any solid evidence of my innocence, but I hope that the appealers can take my word for it.

Sincerely,
Nikriontra.​

I just discovered that the Steam group was an attempt to imitate the actual "SR Middlemen" Group on Steam. I was not aware of this beforehand.