First of all, if you wanna sell a knife on CS:GO , or any expensive skins from the game, you'll be really lucky if you can find an honest buyer. I get 10+ friend request per day ever since I put up my knife on sale.

So most of the people that add me, I will check their profile. I wont accept those with two conditions

1: Their steam profile set on private
2: Their steam account is new (eg ; low gaming hours, very less friends, etc.)

But you cant solely expect a legit buyer based on the factors above. I've accepted 3/10 people that added me to see what are they offering, and almost all of them ask me to go on this website because his ''friend'' that wants to buy it couldn't add me for some reason. This is obviously fake. The link they provide will mostly have 1 letter different from the official website : such as , csgoloinge.com/xxxxxxxx (official : csgolounge.com) <--- this is how they scam people.

Here was my experience.

This guy seemed to have a legit profile layout, and the way he talks seem like an innocent buyer. But he turned out the be the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen.



He asked for a discount for my knife for $80 , which I was selling for $83.50 on the market. I checked back the market for my knife, and I saw that I wasn't the cheapest seller. there were one selling for $70 , and one for 80$, which I found weird because why would he choose mines? Then I thought this guy could be impatient as the other two havent accepted his friend request, and $10 difference wouldn't be a problem to him. He seem to be a nice guy, and judging from his inventory with that many knives, I thought he was a legit buyer.

chat below is the summary of the chatlog between the both of us, which I could not retrieve as he deleted me straight away


I went to check Hammys profile on the steamrep, and steam community. He seemed to be a legit middleman.

He then said he will add this ''Hammy'' to chat, then we three had a chat on how it works.

our chatlog which I managed to save


This is what happened during the trade



I immediately went to double check everything at the steamrep profile and this ''Hammy'' guy, and realize the steamlink is different.

I then declined the trade, and tested them with a few lines, to my surprise , they ran off straight away.

I'm so grateful I have not fallen to this scam. I have never experienced myself getting scammed successfully before in my life, and this was a great experience.

Thanks for the long read

and for the scammer, if you're reading this, I hope you realize you are a douchebag. If your mother found out what their son turned out to be, shes gonna be so f***ing sad. And the life you chose to be a scammer, its a sad choice. Hope you do something useful with your life instead of being a d***.

** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE ADDING ME **

If you are adding me to perform middleman services, please note my rules:

ABOVE ALL, DO NOT WASTE MY TIME. Know exactly how your trade is going to take place BEFORE you add me. Read the guides and arm yourself with knowledge.

1. Check the SteamRep results of the person you're trading before adding me.
2. No scammers! Scammers are so easily spotted, and I do not like having my time wasted.
3. If you add me but do not say what you need, I will remove you after 48 hours. Re-add me as needed.
4. I do not charge (yet), but tips are appreciated for my time.
5. DOUBLE CHECK WHO YOU ARE TRADING WITH! Make *SURE* that the person with whom you are trading is me by adding me through my SteamRep profile page.
6. No account trading of any kind. I will not be a part of it.
7. If trading with codes/keys of any kind, be prepared to share screens on Skype.

Please read the following guides on safe trading practices:

Common trade scams and how to avoid them[redd.it]
Trading safely with real world currencies[redd.it]
A message to new CSGO traders![redd.it]
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