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I'm not familiar with the item and the scam attempt, so its not really possible to comment upon without more information. How does one become eligible for the "Rust - Game shirt" ? and whats the attempt to scam look like?

/edit: just looked at the report. I would have to conclude its more like a shark attempt then anything else. Traders should look into the items that are offered, and think about if they really want the offered items. If it doesn't fit into their knowledge area, don't trade for it. Valve's "Buyers remorse" rule would be the best way to describe it.

Its not really a shark attempt, did you see my post? Rust shirts are skins. Like skins for guns in CS:GO Rust has skins for clothes, its the exact same as H1Z1. These items are marketable, if you own Rust. You can't be EAC banned or VAC banned for rust in order to market them. You can't be family sharing either. They are hard to sell but you may get a buyer for that price. You'd sell it faster if you dropped the price 10 or 15 %. He doesn't own Rust that's why it appears as not-marketable.

How do I put it. Its like trading for an item a select few people want. It's mainly a collectors item.

I probably define sharking a bit different they you. Offering a unwanted, difficult to get rid off item....

Agreed

but even if he accepted it he could still make a small profit just not straight away. I saw a similar post to this on a Facebook csgo trade group regarding the same issue with the same shirt and a lower valued CS:GO item "ah he's a scammer report his profile pls".

I got the information of the scam from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensiveTrade/comments/3gm9mo/psa_rust_sandbox_game_shirt_scam/
As in the posting stated, there are marketable shirts, but the vast majority of them seems to be not marketable.

BTW. how can I find out, if the shirt of a particular trade offer is marketable?

@SilentReaper(SR) : thx for the reply, I can follow your argumentation. Still this leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, cause at least I haven't found a way to determine if the item is marketable or not.

I think in the next days and weeks you'll have to deal with a lot of people who did the trade. (at least I'm lucky to have found the Reddit-post, before doing the trade....)
One victim wrote in the Reddit-thread: "Lol, got scammed by this. 20$, nothing much, but still. Tags aren't showing on the trade though, if someone wonders."

@prodigyaustralia: yeah that's why why in the last week 3 people wanted to trade me this shirt, and everyone would have overpaid me 10 - 20€ .... people are so generous in the market....

Best regards

You don't own Rust so it won't be marketable for you either.

Yeah cause facepunch stuffed something up with the skin and it was bugged as a "black shirt" or someshit I remember buying a black shirt and it gave me the Rust sandbox one (blue one we are talking about).

So, I have someone who scammed my friend saying that his account was Hijacked and the hacker was the one who actually scammed my friend.

He wants my friend to remove the steamrep report on him, should or should I not do this?

My friend says he doesn't believe him when he says that he was hijacked.

Hello. This is my first post/reply, so sorry if there are any mistakes. I recently got scammed by this guy who was already banned, but he used an alt that hasn't been reported yet to scam me. I have an alt, and I have added him with that, and he does not know. Is it okay if I try to catch him by setting him up? For example, he impersonates other's profiles, so I can get my friend to be in the chat with me after he has added his fake account.

Sting operations like scamming the scammer have the same result. Often the scammers know better how to report then the victims.

I know, its tempting. But we also deal with that a scammer can be falsely accused by a "victim", which mostly stems from "buyers remorse" etc. In reaction the friends of the "victim" start up a sting operation against the scammer etc, where there was no real scam in the first place.

I cannot condone such sting operations for those reasons. I do feel for you on this, and if you would get reported, you can bring that forward as extenuating circumstances.

No, for the steps you describe aren't scamming, which is the main reason we do not allow sting operations to scam the scammers. You gathering information about any scammer to find their alts isn't against our rules (unless you start hijacking techniques etc). Question remains, as part of the build up proof you would have to include information how you got to the conclusion... and you may not want to post the conversations to those friends publicly.

Its easy:

Take "YATO", lets start with the "T" you move the horizontal part to the bottom and attach the left side to the end of the vertical point, you have a "L". Then you have the "A" we make no changes there, we have then the "Y" to remove the vertical part of it (save it) and all that is left is a "V". The "O" you crack open at the bottom and flatten the sides till you have "/\" and the remainder of the "Y" that was removed you put in horizontally and you have an "A".