Archived Appeal: 7656119816833105 - (claasic / BANNED BY SR)

Appeal for BANNED BY SR

Steam profile: 7656119816833105 (claasic)

Appeal Plea: I commited the offense(s), but it was minor or I disagree with SteamRep policy
Appeal Reason: [Change of Heart] I will never scam again.

Victim Repayment: No, I committed no fraud or had no direct victims
Previous Appeals: Yes, I appealed here before, but was told to handle other tags or to fix something else before my appeal​

Alternate or Related Accounts:

76561198202683935​

Appeal description:

Hi SteamRep Admins.

It has been over 2900 days since I received my steamrep ban, which is almost 8 years ago.

For some context, I was 15 years old at the time and was just getting into the cs:go skins space. On youtube you would see videos of people trying to scam/getting scammed and my brain at the time thought it was a good idea to try and scam. Not that it makes my actions inexcusable, but I was not well off at this time and went to the bottom of the barrel to try and get some new skins.

Lets start with the first rep thread that I have on F-O-G Trade.
http://forums.f-o-g.eu/threads/11608-76561198168331059-mj.html

I added a user off a cs:go trading website and would tell them I was going to buy their skins for paypal. Once we agreeded on a price, I took a paypal invoice template from a youtube video and changed some of the information in it to look like I sent the user the agreeded amount. As this scam was so stupid, it did not take the user long to realize what I was trying to pull and never sent me any items.

I submitted a "old forum" appeal but its been about 2 months with no change in status on that. I wish I knew when I was this young that I would be invested in this game for a long time and how important my reputation was. With this knowledge I would of never attempted any type of scam.

For the second offense I have, this occurred around the same timeframe.
https://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report.130231/

I was approached by a user on steam who owned a fake gambling website. They told 15 year old me that if I can get a user to deposit on the site, they will "rig" the winnings. I had this user added on steam and tried to get them to deposit skins on the site. The user was wise enough to not deposit anything to the site thankfully. I do not want to keep repeating myself but I wish I would of had the understanding back then how important my reputation was to the community.

I would do anything to go back in time and stop myself from attempting these scams. I was never successful in any of these attempts and wish that I had the same knowledge I had today as a grown man.

I think it is important to note that I am still involved in the cs2 skin scene and have made legitiment "real money" deals with a user I met on twitter. They were instantly worried about my ban on here, but I explained him the situation and he decided to take the risk of doing some of these transactions with me.

Evidence below:
https://twitter.com/Marco_CS2/status/1770451665226727579 - tweet showcasing that I had sent this user real money in exchange for him buying me a skin off the popular buff163 website, where cs skins are normally at their lowest price.

https://imgur.com/a/D86mA9n - screenshot of me sending him 800ish USD while having to wait a week for the skin he bought me to get off tradeban

https://imgur.com/a/X8I1GYA - some DMs about the same deal

https://imgur.com/a/xxuR80H - In this deal, I was sending the user some of the skins I owned for crypto

https://imgur.com/a/ptMIZlT - same deal

https://imgur.com/a/KSLRoeG - same deal

https://imgur.com/a/mUB8YuT - trades

I know my reputation will forever be tarnished, but please consider lifting my ban on your platform. It has been 8 years since I have been banned, I have since grown up and fully understand the morals behind trying to commit these scams. I am now 23 years old with a full time job and have never looked back on my old attempts without some form of regret. I am now an aspiring streamer/youtuber and wanted to do some giveaways for the community on twitter to grow my following, people refused to do these with me due to this ban that happened 8 years ago. I am a changed person, I wish I never committed these offenses but there is nothing I can do at this point but hope that you will take pity on my situation and give me a (I think) must deserved second chance. Please let me know if you need any more information or would like me to elaborate more on anything listed in this post.

I really appreciate your time looking into this.​