Scootaloo 124 Posted December 7, 2016 Long story short: My Amaranthine Antlers have been scammed from me. They're gone. I fell victim to the most elaborate online scam I have ever seen. I won't go into detail here, as I am too exhausted from all of this to retype everything. I have posts on SteamRep, Reddit, and backpack.tf. So I thought I'd inform you all here. bargain.tf is a scam site. The owner of the site has made off with over $7k in hats so far. Don't even think about using them for any sort of TF2 things. If you want the details, here's the links: [MEDIA=reddit]path=%2Fr%2Ftf2%2Fcomments%2F5gwhzt%2F[/MEDIA] Accepted - Report: 76561197963023702 - ([TF2] Team Fortress 2 Items) | SteamRep Forums PSA: If you are an unusual buyer/seller, steer clear of bargain.tf. The site is a scam site. - Team Fortress 2 Item Trading Safe to say I'm done with TF2 after this. Over three years of uptrading gone completely. And with it, my soul and desire to play. Whoever the dude was that made off with my hat, I hope he sells it for a good amount and can actually use the money. It was just going to go to making my kids' Christmas better, is all. Maybe he NEEDS the cash. I dunno. 3 2 Thorax_, Aegean, YeEternalTuna and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scootaloo 124 Posted December 7, 2016 Oh, and the cheeky fucker who scammed me is now embedding pictures and videos of me into his site. That's like, skin-crawling levels of creepy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aegean 849 Posted December 7, 2016 Sorry to hear man, I'm always super careful of third party sites, and I'm really sad this happened to you, especially before Christmas. Let us know if there's anything we can do for you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scootaloo 124 Posted December 7, 2016 I appreciate it. I'm already over the fact that the hat is gone. There wasn't really any real sentimental attachment to it. I'm mostly upset at the fact that the guy didn't steal from me. He stole from my kids. The profits from that hat were going to be used to make their Christmas awesome this year. But even in hindsight, that still probably wouldn't have happened. The offer was hollow right from the start. I was simply swindled. There's no other explanation to it. I just hope that he desperately needed it more than my children did. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scootaloo 124 Posted December 7, 2016 Status update: the dude's main account has been trade banned on steam. geel9, the owner of marketplace.tf, intevened in the case and directly worked to get the guy banned. His account had over $5k in items on it. Sweet, sweet karma. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virr 808 Posted December 7, 2016 (edited) Status update: the dude's main account has been trade banned on steam. geel9, the owner of marketplace.tf, intevened in the case and directly worked to get the guy banned. His account had over $5k in items on it. Sweet, sweet karma. Glad to hear there's at least some action taken against this fucker. It appears he is hosted on NFO (same provider as us). You might want to contact them and let them know and they will most likely shut the website down. Its a small victory, but at least it makes his life a bit harder. I'm fairly certain you can also report this to the authorities, but since i'm not American i have no idea where/how. Fuck this guy. Edited December 7, 2016 by Guest (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scootaloo 124 Posted December 7, 2016 Glad to hear there's at least some action taken against this fucker. It appears he is hosted on NFO (same provider as us). You might want to contact them and let them know and they will most likely shut the website down. Its a small victory, but at least it makes his life a bit harder. I'm fairly certain you can also report this to the authorities, but since i'm not American i have no idea where/how. Fuck this guy. Funny you mention the authorities. I was handed this guy's personal information from a different site owner. I won't say who, but he's going to be hearing from my lawyer. 1 realBelloWaldi reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scootaloo 124 Posted December 7, 2016 As far as reporting to NFOservers, I have no idea how to do that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virr 808 Posted December 7, 2016 As far as reporting to NFOservers, I have no idea how to do that. I'm glad you aren't letting this guy get away with this shit. Game Server Rentals and Hosting :: Contacting us :: NFOservers from what i've seen/heard they are really helpful, might be worth a shot. If you are in contact with your lawyer though it might be wise to talk to him first, before taking any action by yourself. Keep us posted, best of luck<3 1 Aegean reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scootaloo 124 Posted December 7, 2016 I took your advice virr and emailed NFOServers. After reading through my Reddit post, the CEO himself personally took down the site and suspended the account. Call it a win, I suppose. Now nobody else will fall victim to this scam. 2 1 virr, realBelloWaldi and Aegean reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MineCrack 62 Posted December 7, 2016 @Scootaloo Steam support use to do refunds for a specific scenarios, but since then I think they stopped since people abused it to generate high end items on CS:GO for profit. However, this is a unique scenario where the person who scammed you and has the item was trade banned (unless he does not have the item on his main account, I just assumed he did). Regardless, contact steam support and open a ticket to see if they will refund you. If not, ask if they can trade ban the trade bot that received the item off of you. Also request a chain ban on all of their trade bots because typically these types of sites have a lot of trade bots. Be aggressive if you are going to request a chain ban on their trade bots. You will probably have to provide any proof you have as well. While I doubt they will issue a chain ban, it is almost certainly worth the try. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites