Declined Report: 765616519132604413 - ([CSGO] Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Items)

Scam Report

Report Type: [Rep Fraud] Impersonation with intent to defraud
Virtual item type involved: [CSGO] Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Items

Accused profile: 765616519132604413

Victim profile: 76561198043745181

What happened? Description:

I found a reputable and legit trader via a Steam group that was buying CSGO skins

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. I went to the profile of this trader and left a comment saying "added for trade". Shortly after, I received a friend request from the reported account, claiming to be the alt account of the trader; as you can also see from the profile picture and bio info. However, the supposed alt account is not friends with the real trader on steam, and has a private inventory and no playtime on any games. The person said they would send me a certain amount of money for my skins, but then said they wanted me to use a certain website called sellcs.net to check the price of my skins. I opened the website, and it required me to log in with my steam account (actually type in my credentials, not log in automatically using my already logged in account). I did not do it, and told the guy it was a shady wesbite, offering a bunch of other legitimate alternatives. He instead said I didn't need to check it and said he would send me the money we agreed upon, asking me to go first with my items. He sent a trade offer from the alt account, even though the bio of the alt account clearly states in the bio that "no trading" is done from the alt account. I asked him why, and to send an offer from the main account instead. He provided a weird excuse, saying he accepts offers on that account but doesnt send them, and that he would use the alt account temporarily because "I am selling my whole inventory". I said that before I would accept the offer, I wanted him to accept my friend request on the main account, or somehow prove the main account was linked to the alt account. He replied "säker", which is the Swedish word for "sure" as in "certain", but it is never used as an affirmative reply in Swedish. This tells me that the person is not a native Swedish speaker like the legitimate trader is (I found him via a Swedish trading group), but rather someone just using google translate (this was also apparent from some other weird grammatical mistakes). Also, the person had no idea how the Swedish mobile payment service Swish works, even though they claimed to be a Swish trader (Swish only requires the phone number of the person you want to send money to and no other information, the name of the person you send to can be used to make sure the money is received by the correct person). They were not aware of this information at all, asking me for my banking credentials, and I even had to explain to them how it worked. Eventually, the real trader accepted my friend request and I asked if the alt belonged to him. He said "of course not". I attached this convo as well. I just now went and took a screenshot of the old trade offer he sent that I already declined, and now he has changed his profile to "sparkles". All the chats are in Swedish but can easily be translated with Google.​

Provide Evidence:

I have attached screenshots of the chat that took place with the scammer that I described in the above description. I also attached screenshots of the chat that took place with the real trader once he had accepted my request where I ask if the alt account is his and he says no. I have attached a screenshot of the impersonator's profile which is now called "Sparkles". I have attached a screenshot of the trade offer he sent.​