Clearly the scammers aren't that bright. /u/marwelstarpro get a life.

People don't get scammed. Search ALL users on the USL list -> https://universalscammerlist.com/search.php

If you don't want to check it - don't cry you got scammed.

Here's a bit of fun with them

This person's name shows upon the universal Scammers list, but will send you a link with confirmed trades in a old reddit looking link in reddit.netlify, and only sends messages as sending pm , she wouldn't be able to comment on any trading sub-reddits since that person is banned

HOW TO IDENTIFY SCAMMERS ON REDDIT (from /r/GameTrade wiki)

First, search for scam reports. Just copy their user name, paste it into the search box over there, and hit enter --->

If Reddit search is not working, then don't trade.

(When you know their Steam profile URL, always search it at SteamRep.com. Click Research Tools and Search SteamRep Forum).

Next, click on the Reddit user name to see their other posts and their account age and their karma scores. Here are some signs to look out for:

1. Their Reddit account is very new. Less than 24 hours= EXTREMELY RISKY. Less than 1 week= VERY RISKY. Less than 30 Days=RISKY. Older accounts are less risky. However, there are a few scammers with accounts older than six months (Reddit Admins do not always ban known scammers), so keep reading...

2. They sent you a private message. This is very suspicious. If someone only sends you PMs, they may be banned from posting in the subreddit. Ask them to comment on your post - if they can't, don't trade.

3. Their Reddit account has low link karma and low comment karma. They have made very few comments and posts, or the posts are all short or were all made during a short space of time. This could be a throwaway account, be careful.

4. Their offer seems too good to be true. Then usually it isn't true. Ask them to explain why their offer is so good.

5. They try to make you hurry. They tell you some excuse why you must trade immediately. If anyone does this to you, then you are probably being set up for a scam.

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6. They don't care about the price. You ask for $5 more, and they agree easily. Because they don't care, they're not going to give you anything anyway.

7. They say they can't go first because they got scammed recently. It could be true, but sadly, almost every scammer says this. Some scammers even submit fake scam reports to try to make themselves look more innocent.

8. Whatever you ask for, they always have it. You ask for CS:GO on Steam, they have it! You change your mind and ask for Bitcoins, they have that! You change your mind again and ask for Battlefield 4 on Origin, and they have it too!! Because they don't care, they're not going to give you anything.

9. They refuse to post a link to an account on another site, such as SteamCommunity.com, forums, Facebook. Or they only link to other accounts that are very new. Be careful: verify the links. Anyone can post a link to an account, but they would still need to make a post with the other account to prove that they really own it. If they can't do that, report them to the moderator and do not trade with them.

10. They lie to you about anything. This should be a major warning. Do not risk trading with anyone who is not being 100% honest.

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11. They offer to give you half their game key first. They suggest that you both send your key codes simultaneously by pm. They are either a scammer or not experienced, because both these ways of trading offer no protection. Half a game key is useless. Anyone can send a fake key.

12. With any personal information someone gives you, like a username on any site, a Skype ID, or a Steam profile link. Search for it on Google, and search on Reddit. If they scammed someone already, maybe you will find out. If you get no hits for the search, maybe it is a throwaway account. Always search for Steam profile links at SteamRep.com

13. They spam offers to lots of different people at the same time, only a few minutes apart. Scammers do this because they want to hit as many victims as possible before they are caught.

14. They put pressure on you to use a middleman that they have chosen. The middleman could be their friend or their second account. Never use an inexperienced middleman, even if you trust them, because a scammer could also impersonate you and trick an inexperienced middleman to get your items.

15. They claim to be a girl. Maybe they are, but a good guideline is: the more they emphasize their femininity, the less likely it is to be true.

16. Beware of fake rep. Steam Profile comments are not trustworthy because they can be faked by simply posting from alt accounts or friends, and any negative rep posted by victims can be deleted. Reddit scammers can make fake rep threads and fake 'friend' accounts to comment on their trades. They can delete or edit their own posts and comments to try to conceal their previous scams. Scammers use all these tricks to create the impression they are trustworthy. Some even try making fake rep subreddits, or fake scam reports in which they claim they have been scammed.

If you think you have discovered a scammer, please report to the moderator immediately with your evidence. Please do not post comments about it on the subreddit unless you have good evidence and you feel certain. If you think another user is in danger of being scammed imminently, but you don't have good evidence, just send them a pm.

Other resources that help you identify scammers

Search https://www.reddit.com/r/UniversalScammerList/wiki/banlist (use Ctrl + F to quickly find the name)

Search this list of scammers for usernames (http://redd.it/1qa9rd)

Use Steamrep.com to check Steam Profiles before risky or expensive trades, and to find out more about avoiding scams.

Search /r/badkarma for user names

Search https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_trades/wiki/blacklist

Check Reddit's Shared Ban List

Warning: u/Aggravating-Virus-54

Their another account: u/PsychologicalVisual1

Their Steam account: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198257861976

I traded Control Resonant with this user about two weeks ago. Payment went through, I delivered the NVIDIA account with the game, and they later commented on my rep page confirming the trade.

Now, about half a month later, they opened a PayPal dispute claiming they never received a completely different item: “Halloween: The Game - Regal 3D Glasses Cosmetic Code.”

The screenshots they submitted don't match our actual trade, and they don't show my Reddit username or PayPal information. They also deleted their side of our Reddit chat and the comment where they confirmed the trade.

I've submitted my evidence to PayPal. Just posting this as a heads-up for other traders: be careful trading with this user and keep screenshots of everything.

I am officially calling it quits with game trading. I appreciate everyone's participation and support throughout the years with the reddit community.

I don't take anyone I traded with for granted. I tried to be fair and take accountability. I also tried to treat everyone with the respect they deserve.

It's obvious things are dwindling with game trading, but I wish everyone luck who continues to participate. I will be moderating the best I can in my free time, so please message me with any of those concerns still.

Best of Luck - Celeryman

Update: I don't want to completely close the door. I may return in a limited capacity once I get settled, but I cannot be the mass buyer / trader that I once was.

TIPS TO HELP YOU SPOT AND AVOID SCAMMERS AND TO TRADE SAFELY

The number 1 mistake people make here is doing a trade with someone who has sent a private message, we can ban scammers from commenting but we can't stop them from being able to pm you! If someone pm's you or ninja adds you on steam ask them to comment in your public thread.

/r/GameTrade TRADING 101

• Ignore PM's unless they have commented on your public post. If you can't see their comment that will mean they are banned or using a new account under 7 days old.

• Don't just accept the first offer that comes along, if you try and rush you will likely get scammed. Leave your post up for a few hours at least and you may get more than just one offer.

• If it's too good to be true it probabaly is!

• Research your trading partner properly, it's explained in detail down below.

• Spend 10 minutes to educate yourself if you're new to trading and read everything below.

• Message the Mods if you're unsure of anyone or anything, or want our opinion or advice on something, we will gladly help as much as we can and will respond to you asap.

COMMON SCAM TACTICS TO LOOK OUT FOR:

• The "I've just been scammed or scammed before" victim excuse, if thats true they should be able to link you to a report such as on /r/badkarma or steamrep.com, ask for proof of the scam and make sure they posted evidence. Ask what sub they reported it to then go contact the mods to verify that.

• Trying to rush you into a trade with excuses or making the deal better if you trade quick.

• Impersonating another user and linking a rep thread of the person they are impersonating to make them appear trustworthy, check the rep thread and check it actually links back to the same person, check the steam accounts match! (number of games, profile level, are you friends? etc).

• Comment history suggesting they don't like scammers or calling other people scammers to make them appear genuine.

• Offering to give you half the code or a code with missing digits first then giving you the rest afterwards.

• Claiming they have lots of rep such as steam profile +rep comments, remember these can be manipulated, deleted or even made by friends or alt accounts. Ignore these!

• The middleman scam, where they choose a friend as a middleman or impersonate a known middleman. Or ask you to pick a middleman or a freind and they impersonate them. We will middleman for you if the trade involves tradable steam items or gifts. Message Us Here

• Whatever you ask for, they always have it. You ask for CS:GO on Steam, they have it! You change your mind and ask for Bitcoins, they have that!

• They refuse to share information with you like steam profiles or accounts they care about, they insist on only doing a trade by pm or skype/kik etc.

HOW TO RESEARCH YOUR TRADING PARTNER

Reddit Search

1. Do they have a new reddit account (30 days or under?) be extra careful with these users, they could be an already banned scammer that has made a new account. If they claim to have lot's of rep elsewhere read below about what rep you should be looking for.

2. Do they have an older reddit account? Is there big gaps between posting? Big gaps between posting on older accounts is suspicious, could be a hacked or sold account.

3. Are they posting on giveaways looking for freebies, or offering multiple different games to people and have no previous trade history? This is suspicious also! If they have some trading history in their comment history click the comments context and make sure the post was not removed or the user was banned.

4. Go over to Google and search their username to see if it brings up any scam reports (for example search "/u/joebloggs scam"), search reddit also and head over to /r/badkarma and search their too.

5. Check our known scammers list and ctrl+f their username, also do the same on the Universal Scammer List

Great, everything checked out above and now your thinking about handing over your cash/item/code? You still have a few more important searches to do if the trade has anything to do with PC games/items.

SteamRep Search

6. If you are trading PC games/items it's recommended you try and take the trade over to a chat on steam, it doesn't matter what platform games you are trading there is some good reason for this. First of all you will be able to conduct the trade in real time chat, but the most important reason for this is to search the persons steam profile on steamrep.com. Get their steam profile url after you have added them on steam and head over to steamrep.com and do a quick search, all you have to do is paste the url in and click search, if the following page has no scam alerts on it make sure you "Search SteamRep Forum" for pending/invalid or cd scam reports as pictured here and read these reports if any show up http://imgur.com/a/ARZwl this second forum search is very important.

7. While you are on steam chatting and searching take a look at their steam profile, how many games do they own, how many hours playtime do they have? Does it look like an alternate account or a CS:GO smurf account they wouldn't care about being linked to a scam? If the profile is private ask them to unprivate it for you! Some scammers make alt accounts so you don't find any evidence of scamming in your searches, or so the scam can't be linked to their main steam account afterwards.

Note - Steamrep searches are very important, if the user is not showing as banned but you find some reports in the steamrep forum search make sure you read those reports, check who is the victim and who is the accused and go over any evidence. Even if the report is not marked as "Accepted" you might still find that there is evidence that will help you from being scammed

WHAT REP SHOULD YOU BE LOOKING FOR?

Good Rep:

• Confirmed trades on here or other subreddits, if they only have one or two still be cautious incase they made a fake trade or a few low value trades to appear genuine before asking you for your AAA game.

• Rep on independant rep sites such as steamtrades.com, CSGOREPorts steam group, sourceop.com etc. These are rep sites where users can't just delete any negative rep they get

Bad Rep: (rep you should straight up ignore)

• Steam Profile +rep comments

• A steam group the person created

• Anything which is not independant and the user can fake, maniuplate or delete any negative rep they get

Important Notes

• If you are linked a rep thread always navigate back to that user from the rep thread and check it's the same person and not someone who has copied someones steam profile or reddit username for example http://imgur.com/a/5wxU8

• Remember that steam profile +rep comments mean nothing and should be ignored. Doesn't matter if they have 2 or 1,000, ignore them.

PAYPAL PAYMENTS

Paypal goods and services vs Paypal friends and family gift

• Paypal goods and services offers some buyer protection and will allow you to dispute the payment if you get scammed VS Paypal friends and family gift will not offer buyer protection or allow you to dispute the payment

• Paypal goods and services adds a 3% fee to the total amount VS Paypal friends and family gift will not add a fee usually unless you are sending payments overseas

• If the person requests you send them a friends and family gift payment and they have no past trade history or "good rep" or your unsure in anyway about them you should always be using the goods and services option to send the money.

• People who trade often will usually request you send the payment by friends and family gift, it protects them a bit better incase the buyer tries to start a false dispute. This method is usually safe enough if you have thoroughly researched them as detailed above and they have a good number of confirmed trades here or on other subreddits or independant rep sites.

Be very careful if you use PayPal. No matter what you do to protect yourself, it is almost always possible for a scammer to dispute a payment to you, and get back the money they sent you, as much as six months later. Scammers usually win these disputes because they understand better how the system works.

Understand that scammers will try and avoid any form of payment you could dispute, they prefer to ask for friends/family gift, gift cards, codes, bitcoin, steam items (gifts, keys, skins) etc.

REPORT A SCAM OR ATTEMPTED SCAM

If you think you have discovered a scammer, please report to the moderator immediately with your evidence. Please do not post comments about it on the subreddit unless you have good evidence and you feel certain.

Send us screenshots of the conversations in full, if it was reddit pm's put them in threaded form by clicking permalink on one of them, screenshot them and upload them to imgur or similar site and send us the links, don't close the steam chat box if that's where you spoke, screenshot the whole chat before you close it and send us any other information that is relevant like steam profiles or other info.

Message the Mods Here

USEFUL LINKS

• How to Identify Scammers on Reddit

• /r/GameTrade Scammer List (use Ctrl + F to quickly search a user name)

• Universal Scammer List (use Ctrl + F to quickly search a user name)

• /r/badkarma (a sub to report scammers on reddit, search user names)

Steamrep.com (Steam Fraud Prevention - search someones steam profile url and remember to also search the forums using the research tools http://imgur.com/a/ARZwl )

r/starcitizen_trades banlist - search user names

Hey everyone, I'm posting this to warn the community about a couple of users and a scam I've personally fallen victim to. Please be careful.

The users in question are u/Ibrahem303 and u/MalkOm74. I believe these are alternate accounts for the same person.

Here's how their scam works, based on my experience:

Part 1: The Revoked Key

A while back, I traded with a user on this sub who claimed to have a game key from Xsolla. I sent them a crypto for payment. The key worked at first, but a few days later, it was revoked from my Steam account. This means the key was likely purchased with a stolen credit card or obtained fraudulently. The seller gets the gift card money, and the key is taken back by the developer or platform. There's no way to get my money back.

Part 2: The New Attempt

Recently, the same person (using a different account) tried to scam me again. They were offering another key, this time for a significant discount. They sent me a screenshot of a "bill" from Xsolla as "proof" that the key was legitimate.

When I offered to pay with a Steam key I had legitimately purchased from a verified seller like Eneba (a far safer way to trade keys), they got defensive and called me a scammer. This is a classic tactic—they try to project their own behavior onto you to confuse and manipulate you. The fact that they refused a verifiable key and insisted on a non-refundable gift card is all the proof you need that something is wrong.

In summary, these are the massive red flags to watch out for:

• Insisting on payment via Steam gift cards or other non-refundable methods.

• Providing fake "proof" like screenshots of bills.

• Getting defensive and calling you a scammer when you offer a safer payment method.

• Users who have a history of selling keys that get revoked later.

Be very cautious when dealing with these accounts or anyone using similar tactics. A deal that seems too good to be true, combined with a demand for a gift card, is almost guaranteed to be a scam.

Stay safe out there. Please report any shady activity to the mods.

I traded a code for Blood Of The Dawnwalker and he claimed it was a duplicate code. I then contacted the site I got the code from and they looked into it for me and got the message back today that it had been redeemed around the same time I sent it so he definitely lied. u/TurtleViking123

NO LONGER WORKS

I earned myself some Dead By daylight keys fair and square. However, they were meant for the game itself and did not only contain the DLCs. So I decided to trade them for a few bucks. Of course, u/PooleOsas was up for trade in my DMs. He asked that I give the keys first. He had a fake rep with two pages of him apparently selling and people apparently buying. Disgusting. He was terribly annoying with me receiving the money first and then giving him the keys so we made a deal. I would give him the best key I had, he would proceed to give me the money and then I'd give him the rest. Of course, I gave him the key, and he asked for the other one. Stating he would not pay until he received the other one. He also deleted his message were he wrote the deal.

He is absolutely disgusting. He used every techniques he could. I, on my part, did not research his name since I am new to reddit and trading. A friend told me I could trade on here.

Please, if he messages you, DO.NOT.REPLY and report him. I am seriously annoyed by this.

someone is using reddit accounts with names similar to mine and they are sending people my rep profile in subs like GCT and GCX which show that i'm a top trader at both subs , please be aware of who you trade with , follow the sub rules and message the mods or the person that you have his rep account before trading and don't forget to click on the name and check if his info checks out.

i hope you all the best and please watch out because this isn't the first time some redditors message me about someone using a name similar to mine and thank you.

Giving people the heads up so they aren't accidentally kicked off the classic plan on humble bundle. Some people have had this situation arise and support didn't really help them out.

Make sure to leave your old payment method on there if you have to add and use a new one, so your subscription isn't canceled.

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