Accepted Report: 76561198106019027 - ([TF2] Team Fortress 2 Items)

Scam Report

Report Type: [Rep Fraud] Impersonation with intent to defraud
Virtual item type involved: [TF2] Team Fortress 2 Items

Accused profile: 76561198106019027

Victim profile: 76561198338570643

What happened? Description:

While I was playing Starbound at 2:12 PM (GMT-6), someone I added through an MvM match in about late 2015, named slick, that I never talked to until today, randomly said hello and introduced me with a link to a very "informing" and detailed guide.
They attempted to make me believe that they are a Steam Community Admin through a recently made guide by a possible smurf. Shortly after; said they would ban me and deactivate my account because of a few reports from unmentioned users about a few of my items being "duped." If he is an actual admin, which I believe he isn't, then he doesn't deserve a good reputation for this kind of treatment. At first, he mentions trade banning and community locking my account. Then he mentions deleting my account, and later sends an image of a delete account request. I only wanted evidence from him, in which he gave none of. The question about why I was reported was in fact, more than impossible to answer. He addressed people I automatically assume as never met or seen, as users. If only he mentioned the users that reported me; if was familiar with any of them, then I would have given him a proper answer.​

Provide Evidence:

No trades have been made in this session, but I believe it is worth tagging this user for Fraudulent/Impersonation activity, as he could ruin everyone else's gaming experiences and spread paranoia to and from individuals and smaller communities.

NOTE: slick sent me (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1488675378#2685871)
but I took off the hashtag (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1488675378) extension before accessing his link for safety reasons.
The guide was made by someone named "Community." with a private profile.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198311402596
| steamname: Community.
| steam3ID: [U:1:351136868]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:175568434
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198311402596
| customURL:
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198311402596
The Guide contained four videos, last two of the four are related to CSGO.
Link to 3rd and 4th working videos by a youtube channel named "steamsecurity steamviolation" (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe1DDNGVSyHDGxdfMSw8udQ)
[Trade Ban]
[CS:GO Duplication] (Unlisted Video)


The first video named "Trade Ban", seems to be a clip stolen from Anomaly.


As I have been on steam since 2012-05-08 (http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198063313732), I have learned many things since my many VAC bans in 2016-07.
1. Valve never really gave any crap about duped items.
2. If they did they would've cracked down on it a VERY LONG time ago.
3. Morals and Ethics: lost interest in cheating since my VAC(s) on my first account. Therefore, I don't deem "duping" as an appropriate action.
4. Lost interest in TF2 and its "fancy" vanity kill streak and cosmetic stuff.
5. Lots of players usually accuse me of being a "noob" for having no cosmetics, and I like to prove those kinds of people wrong, rather than being a show-off with probably a long-time-chased unusual set.
6. I just tell people, "congrats," or, "cool," if they want to show-off their probably rich items, or when they achieve something apparently amusing to themselves.
7. The last time I actually wanted to play TF2 everyday or once a week was over 3 months ago. I'm always "Eh" about playing it now. It's gone stale.
8. The past 2 months, I've been interested in playing other games. (Destiny 2, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Stardew Valley, Starbound, and Warframe) This also means that I didn't play TF2 at all, other than touching it to see if anything's new for about 10 minutes once a month.
9. The last time I actually traded and negotiated prices with an actual person and not an auto-offer-accept bot was a few days before my VAC on my first account.

Since I made this account (2016-10-22), I haven't been a fan of the "cosmetics/unusuals = skill" culture all that much, in fact, my 1500+ hours on this account is played with barely any cosmetics at all, other than when I'm running loadouts for jokes and memes. When I asked slick for a link to the reported items, his reply was;
"slick (SliK)
:
2:24 PM
Collector item and all taunts"
^I have ONLY TWO taunts (Schadenfraude and High Five) which I bought not even 20 hours into the game off the Official In-Game Mann Co. Store, with a Steam Gift Card I purchased from a game-store. The Only Collector item (Collector's Pro KS Ambassador) I had was gifted to me by my friend. Checking its history from https://backpack.tf/item/2575483365, I only see Me, my friend, and the assumed first owner of the item. This allowed me to confirm his mentioned reports to be fake.

Info about slick (Not exact, but possibly helps):
Since they set their profile to private on steam mid-conversation, I was only able to get a quick glance at their stats on their profile before-hand. All I can say is, if they do set their profile back to public by the time this report gets reviewed; their steam profile should have a Luigi SFM Artwork showcase, and his TF2 playtime should be 2500+ hours. For an extra confirmation, he should have over 1000 hours on L4D2, based off of what I can remember.

Background Info:
I haven't traded at all except with Scrap.tf and Backpack.tf bots for cheap, common weapons and cosmetics that I didn't have in early game to pull off stupid jokes and loadouts for fun (eg. Spy cosmetic set to play along with my friends making fun of their past acquaintance). In fact, all the Scrap Metal I have are from buying Mann Up tickets with Steam Transactions and completing tours, and scrap-crafting extras of regular weapons into metal, or selling seconds of rewarded cosmetics (Y'all know how RNG is). Most the Spy Items I have were gifted by my friend, who had been inspired by his friends to play spy. He said he had made sure that they were clean, then passed them on to me, and now I refuse to give them away or even use them. I just hold them in my inventory as a form of respect and gratitude.​

New steam UI makes time stamps only appear when hovered over, and it's a lot more aggravating to hover and copy line by line, not to mention their copy paste format is also wonky. With my desktop, I have my Taskbar set to auto-hide. Extremely and sincerely sorry about this mess.

Chat started at 22 Aug 2018 @ 2:12 PM
Chat ended at 22 Aug 2018 @ 2:56 PM
slick removed me at 22 Aug 2018 @ 2:39 PM

slick (SliK)
:
Hi there
Hibiki
:
gday
slick (SliK)
:
How are you hibiki
Hibiki
:
tired
slick (SliK)
:
Oh sorry did i disturb you?
Btw are you busy cause i have a good news for you
Hibiki
:
?
not realy busy at all
slick (SliK)
:
Here hibiki please check
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1488675378#2685871
Steam Community (Fraud Prevention)
These are members of the community that volunteer their time to help keep the community clean and on topic, and remove reported user generated content around the Steam Community. If you see one of these guys around, please thank them for helping keep the S
10Rate
Hibiki
:
thats a weird extension to a steam thing
slick (SliK)
:
Did you saw me on the list of admins hibiki?
Hibiki
:
never seen a hashtag with numbers to an id thing
slick (SliK)
:
its really cool right?
Hibiki
:
thats nice
congrats if its an actual thing
slick (SliK)
:
Thanks hibiki
Btw hibiki did you change something on your account?
Hibiki
:
?
no i never really change my stuff
slick (SliK)
:
Are you sure?
Hibiki
:
yes
slick (SliK)
:
Cause there are multiple user's that reported your account for having a duplicated items in your inventory.
Hibiki
:
ok then
idc
if its tf2 items i got them through trading
slick (SliK)
:
Hibiki are you aware that if you cant prove your self here your account will be permanently trade banned and community lock right?
Hibiki
:
and i do check the item history
and i do that via backpack.tf
slick (SliK)
:
like this recent user that i ban

Steam Community :: 76561198271410154
STEAMCOMMUNITY.COM

https://steamcommunity.com/id/TheBob-65/
Hibiki
:
thing is
how can you trade ban me for not knowing about dupes?
and
since
ive never actually been trading on TRADE SERVERS
why would i be reported
and by whome
slick (SliK)
:
You dont have to worry herei f you really not involved in the said issue i will remove the pending ban on your account
Hibiki
:
<--- recent account
link me to my duped items
slick (SliK)
:
Collector item and all taunts
Hibiki
:
fake link man
slick (SliK)
:
IF you belived that the report in your account was false accusation complain so i can remove the pending ban and the deletation of your steam account hibiki
Hibiki
:
https://steamrep.com/search?q=76561198106019027
no special reputation
https://steamrep.com/list/A
steamrep lists steam community admins
slick (SliK)
:
Steam rep is not associated with fraud prevention
Hibiki
:
really now
slick (SliK)
:
read
Hibiki
:
why would you believe i would commit to fraud?
slick (SliK)
:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....407/A2989EE0BA666021C2AEE1B51DE99FB42C14EF2D/
Hibiki
:
that guide you made
was created today
shouldnt it have been made earlier if it was official?
look
give me actual evidence that its duped
not just words
slick (SliK)
:
They are not duped items there are the items that has been reported by multiple users
and if you feel not comfortable about the process you can take the deletation of your steam account
Hibiki
:

Steam Community :: Moderators
STEAMCOMMUNITY.COM

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/moderators
?
whats that?
look
what do you want me to do about those so called "duped" items
delete them?
pass them onto you?
im not the type of person that worries about taunts or cosmetics that much
as much as i know
i dont care about them anyway
i play tf2 with barely any cosmetics because i enjoy the fact that people believe cosmetics = skill
slick (SliK)
:
Btw hibiki could i ask why those users reported your account?
Hibiki
:
question
mind you answer?
who reported my account?
if i dont KNOW them then i most likely HAVNT MET THEM
slick (SliK)
:
Multiple users i will give there steam id once you have proven that your innocent
and have you read the process?
Hibiki
:
process of?
was i notified about this?
and why would you give them after
slick (SliK)
:
Cause they might be false accusation and if you have proven your innocent here i might ban those user for false accusation
and here please read
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....387/534A8679B00614646BFA72B568F3870A2FBB4553/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....841/8A88EBFCF1C05BF3C45535DCC0CE9A65D73C0B59/
Are you done reading it ?
Hibiki
:
looks like its made in powerpoint
tbh
slick (SliK)
:
the process takes 2-3 minutes only and weather the items are duplicated you will gonna received it back with a unique id.
Hibiki
:
yeah no you know
ACTUAL steam mods could mess with your itmes
items
slick (SliK)
:
So are you going to continue here or you will take the deletation of your steam account?
Hibiki
:
in fact, they'd remove the item and place a TEMP ban for up to a years time
slick (SliK)
:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd....809/75F4419032D0EBD9AA4D6DDEBF1AD541ECDF8C00/
Hibiki
:
thanks
this was very s✿✿✿ reasoning from you
(2:39 PM)^
i got no evidence
thing is
it aint justice if you just ban me for requiring evidence
photographic evidence isnt perfect either
it can be ediited
say
why was i removed?
seeing that i met you around 2015 through a tf2 MVM server
Hibiki
:
that ban also aint recent
the HIGH FIVE and Schadenfraude
i BOUGHT WITH MY OWN MONEY
off the OFFICIAL MANN CO STORE