New scammer accounts adding high level users.

Hey,

I have been getting alot of adds off very "scammer looking" , accounts who have high level friends do look more "legit" to most people(i'm a level 150 steam user). Here is an example of what i'm on about
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197965303521 (Example i did not say 100% scammer)

As you can see 11 year old account, 120 hours on csgo, just thinks one day "lets go into serious IRL money for csgo items trading" i think unlikely.

This is mainly a rant, also thread to raise awareness about scammer accounts going around adding higher leveled users 100+ mostly to look more legit. (if it's not been pointed out already)

PS. Sorry for my grammar i have not slept.

Looks like that recent rep is fake at the very least, since the one that reped him 35 minutes ago is trade banned.

Yeah i saw all the fake rep, i pointed him out to some people they removed him pretty much insta.

I just see more and more profiles becoming like this etc, thought it needed bringing to light.

Level 123 here who happens to do a little trading as well. It gets annoying but it pays to always be safe and block the ones that don't check out.

You can normally recognize the type. Not saying all accounts that do this are scammers but a group of people generate/buy accounts and use copy paste for the presentation:

• Low hours played
• A huge wall of text about how amazing they are
• Imgur links of payments with made up context (you can see this on one of the accounts who gave +rep)
  
• An unusually large amount of +rep that is recent
• Screenshots of knives in CSGO

Normally, when you see an account with all those things it's one of these guys.

Aren't all "+rep" comments basically fake rep?

They should always be treated with suspicion at least. For steam +rep it's more about who gave it then volume.

I often wish I could just force everyone to read that thread before using any trading site to make money deals.

Congrats on 4k posts by the way.

+REP

edit: goddamn quote fail

I've stopped doing stuff with new reports, I'm taking what I've learned and am applying it to a new project.

This is a reason why I only accept users that have a level of 10 or higher, then I check their SteamRep status. Since I've been doing that, I have had less scammers and beggars.