Accepted Report: 76561198055874308 (M1N1JOX)

I've been contacted by this guy when i was in holiday chat, i was so busy so i just took screenshot using puush and i'm posting them today, the link are safe, don,t worry it's not referee link, it's just an autopush screenshot program i use to take screenshot, also, sorry if maybe some screenshots are similar i,m tired and i prefere to have too much than having to clean useless screenshot.

This guy was trying to shark me(I think it's the term in english?) He tried to lie to me by telling Fallout 3 Collector edition is steamwork and giving me a bubbblehead in TF2, well, he said yes at my question, a legiit traded would say he could verify and telling no and anyway he said it was powerful in tf2 WTF?

No scam happened but i guess sharking isn't legit either lol.

Also, about the f'ed up text in trade, i noticed later it was caused by my nickname that's having a special char in it that reverse this, no idea why but i try to contact VALVe to help them reproduce this bug to fix it.



Sharker (I strongly suggest to watch his IP, since his SteamID32 seems recent, maybe an alt.):
steamID: M1N1JOX
steamID32: STEAM_0:0:47804290
steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198055874308
customURL:
steamrepURL: http://steamrep.com/index.php?id=76561198055874308

http://puu.sh/hqQu
http://puu.sh/hqKM
http://puu.sh/hqKT
http://puu.sh/hqMP
http://puu.sh/hqOF
http://puu.sh/hqPB
http://puu.sh/hqQu
http://puu.sh/hqQX
http://puu.sh/hqTS
http://puu.sh/hqVI
http://puu.sh/hqYb
http://puu.sh/hqYN (NSFW language)
http://puu.sh/hqZD

Thank you for the PM- I better understand the situation.

So this shows that the scammer wanted all of those games and then would give you a Fallout 3 code that would give you the Bubblehead for the Pyro in-game, correct? (And such a key does not exist)

I completly understand about the cd-key rule, but i posted the report exactly because of the "sharking" the guy tried.

I asked him if the keys give some items such a bubblehead(Fallout 3 reference) in team Fortress 2, he answered yes.

I aksed him some question, such if keys are steamwork and such. I asked him does it say it on the box, is it the collector edition, he said yes.


No matter if they key are legit or not, the main problem he was sharking, those TF2 items never existed.


The guy LIE to get games, nothing related to the keys themself. This is what i call sharking, trying to convince the victim that the victim will get X items with those keys when it take 2 seconds to verify on Google if it's true or not, AND the fact he said yes it does, and the fact he said yes to the question if the keys can be used on multiple account he said yes.



The report isn't a lot about the keys, but mostly about the sharking attempt itself.

It's our policy to not tag for sharking, however, I don't see this as sharking because he blatantly lied to you that the game would give you those items when it would not. So he would be getting games in exchange for something he said would give you an item but wouldn't- that is scamming. Sharking, from my understanding, is saying an item is less valuable than it is (or more valuable, etc) while scamming is saying an item is something that it is not. Saying that this key gives you an item and it does not give you an item would be scamming. Therefore, I'm going to mark this guy with a caution as no scam occurred but he clearly was trying to get games in exchange for a key that would not provide what it said it would.

Thank you for your report!