What is the policy on reverse scamming a scammer?

If someone is obviously trying to scam you, and even has SR reports filed against him. And you turn around the scam and make him pay you before he pays you. Is this considered a scam?

Think of it this way, the accused scammer could just say they would have went through with the trade but you ended up scamming them. They report you, Bam! You're now labeled as a scammer too. You can't really prove bad intention, so saying you thought someone was going to scam you doesn't make it any better. The ol' two wrongs don't make a right. Best to just steer clear of someone you think is trying to scam you, especially if they are already labeled.

I'm currently yellow tagged for something that normally gets a red tag (which I thought would get me a red tag) and that was taking an item from a scammer to return to the victim. Basically: SR tags against any sort of scam no matter the target.

and what if you pay victims of the scammer with the stuff you scammed off of him?

Scamming the scammer gets you marked. While intend may be genuine to "help" the victim, it delivers more problems then it solves.

We had victims yell scammer to someone, claiming they lost X amount, but no trade or w/e happened, and someone "helpful" thought to go scam the "scammer", and it turned out later that the Victim accused the wrong account... With the process here we can hear both parties and judge accordingly.

Repaying a victim also impedes on the appeal process (scammer has to repay the victim without any fuss, and as above can be seen in Lava's reply, asap).

Also, Scamming a scammer, if that scammer only scammed like... a key or a craft hat or w/e, and you scam a unusual? how is that "appropriate"? or if the victim got the items back, how can SR then still require repayment? Or how to weight the repayment for the appeal? If the item(s) scammed where quite valuable, the scammer may not be able to repay, for its all they had. It was a involuntary repayment, which would negatively influence their appeal.

So we have as guidance to not do so, and treat it the same as any other scam. Repayment is between the scammer and victim only, no admin should be in between (see appeal tips as well), and no conditions can be put up by the scammer. They already owe the victim what they scammed, and the victim should not have to do anything. The only thing we ask of the victim is that they post on the report (if still open) or appeal thread that they received repayment (in full) from the scammer and tell how it went and their sentiment regarding it. Only then it can be weighted in into the report outcome or appeal.

So Robin Hood ideal is just a myth, not something we should strive for, and rely on fate of the gods since theres no real protection or retribution against scammers.