Accepted Report: 76561198305900203 - ([CSGO] Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Items)

Scam Report

Report Type: [Money] PayPal scam or scam attempt
Virtual item type involved: [CSGO] Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Items

Accused profile: 76561198305900203

Victim profile: 76561198299902212

What happened? Description:

There are 2 scammers, they work together, the fake middleman is the one I accused above, the fake buyer is this one:

SteamID64: 76561197961617453
| steamname: Lethal3njection
| steam3ID: [U:1:1351725]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:1:675862
| steamID64: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197961617453
| customURL: https://steamcommunity.com/id/TongCoGut
| steamrep: https://steamrep.com/profiles/76561197961617453

I posted my karambit marble fade on the main trading reddit, and a guy (id64: 76561197961617453) added me, said he want it. Then he gave me a link (https://www.reddit.com/r/Redditsteamexchange/wiki/index) , which I thought at first was a subreddit but turned out a fake one later, that has 4 middleman profile links. He told me to add both shubbler (a real trading reddit moderator) and Chox (the fake middleman). After 5 min Chox added me, and so we chose him as the middleman. The middleman showed me a lot of screenshots of his trading records with others(Idk if he photoshopped those but they looked really real), so I thought he was legit. After giving my items to the middleman, he gave me a screen shot stating that his paypal only allows him to send $5k or above. So we made another deal, I bought some Rust items and gave them to the middleman, then the buyer send me $5k. But later the middleman said he told the buyer to give him the 5k, and asked me to buy more rust items for him since his country is banned from the website. I was banned by csgoempire as well since I am in USA, so I did not think too much and bought items for about $4k for him. Then he took another screenshot saying he had the same problem, that he had to send above 11k. So we ended up with a total of 18k. Then again he send me a screenshot showing that the transfer failed due to problem in recipient(me)'s payment method. Then I called paypal and they said everything is fine on my end. And then I asked him to call paypal as well. He returned and claimed that paypal said he has sent $90k over the month and has to sent above 30k to break the limit. So we ended up with $30k. Then he and the buyer blocked me on steam right after I gave him all the items (total value of $30k).​

Provide Evidence:

Image 1&2: initial trade agreement with fake buyer

Trade agreement with fake middleman is missing since we talked about that in the steam group chat created by the middleman and I am blocked by him.

Image 3, 4 & 5: proof that I gave him the items.

Imgae 6: proof that he said he will give me $30k

Image 7 & 8 : fake buyer and fake middleman unfriended and blocked me after they got all the items.

Image 9 & 10: Me loading their profile from the chat and proof that I got blocked by them.​

Image 1 is here. Sry

Admin pls ban these 2 ppl, I checked their records on steamrep since there is only one report that got declined, and that was one of the reasons I thought they were legit.

paypal activity, friends activity (i got blocked by them so i cannot see them) and inventory history are all here.

Ok I do not know if this works, but on march 3rd, fake buyer claimed that he 'added' fake middleman, but according to steamrep, they were already friends before that.

and proof that this chat log is me chatting with the 2 i am accusing. (on the bottom left there is the id when i hover my mouse on the names)

also i am getting the shots from 'GetFriendMessageLog', so I think that is enough to prove I was friends with them both.

so if i change my order of accuse it would work?

no i dont unfortunately

why are the logs not accepted, they are provided by valve, and u can see the id of the person im talking to, the link is at bottom left corner

if the logs are not accepted, then there is no way to proof he was in contact with me as long as he blocks me, this does not make any sense

same link as shown in the message log and same name, ur telling me u cannot decide if they are the same people i accused of? that is ridiculous

but how am i gotta do this then? u r asking for the impossible

if thats the only proof u accept, u should change it, since it can be so easily evaded by the scammers. so what do u expect me to say? i lost $30k and they can just walk away since they have destroyed the only proof by blocking me

u think this makes sense? i already gave u the proof that i talked to them and the id, the profile picture, profile name are all the same, still u say u cant accept this. message logs are provided by valve, how is it not acceptable? this is the most hilarious thing i have ever heard of