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SteamRep admins are not part of Steam in any way. We don't (and can't) get involved in your trades. What you're describing sounds a lot like a typical scammer, impersonating a SteamRep admin. The only time you would do something like this is explained in our middleman guide. And it's something you will know you plan on doing before you even added them, not something they tell you do because the other trader says so.

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Nobody can apply directly for SteamRep admin, they have to start as a moderator first. And to do that, you need to demonstrate not only that you're trustworthy, but that you have a really solid and intimate grasp on how Steam trading and various scams work. If you're asking us about inspecting trade offers within Steam, it suggests you don't even understand what we do, meaning you're not even close to being ready. Check this guide out; it answers "how do I become a middleman?" which is more common, but the answer is basically the same.

We would require clear intent to scam - looking at the profile there is none. You will need to report user to Valve using their in profile reporting system.
Don't expect something to happen over night.
If someone has a scam attempt by this user using your links, info etc that is intent and THEY can make a report with valid evidence.

I see no scam there at all.

Your asking this cause I declined your alt report - issue is 99.999% of all reports we get like that are just references to items traded, past/current user names and so on. Too much lack of data that we require to link up accounts.
I won't go into how or what we look at to determine that so we just don't accept them. Now if you reference an account in the same report its looked at but that is about it.
The accounts you were leaning towards I looked at them and couldn't determine anything based on our investigative tools that would solid link them together.
So unless there is a solid link for our methods we use to verify that we won't tag but we also don't want reports of it for accusations since as I said 99.999% of those reprots are unfounded and just guessing with some small common references.
I hope that makes sense.

Nothing you can do - but we can spot fake reports.

You need to just contact those CSGO trading communities directly

No set time frame - depends on when we can get to them. Some require more review than others.
You've been tagged for what about 40days and there are others that are waiting longer.
Remember - had you not done the deed to start with you wouldn't be here asking this question.
Your answer is to wait - not bump the appeal either.

SR doesn't deal with issues like that - we are only an anti-Fraud investigative site.
You can report that type of thing to Valve if you want using the in profile reporting feature.
In order to do that, you have to:
1. Visit the accuseds profile
2. Click MORE drop-down located at the top right of the page
3. Choose REPORT VIOLATION
4. Select the violation, then describe it and provide the evidence
5. Click SUBMIT REPORT

Click here to view an animated gif that shows how to report a violation.

Basically speaking - report them and move on - nothing more you can do or really should do.