Today I got scammed out of most of my TF2 items and potentially my account.
Earlier a tf2 „trader“ made me an offer of roughly $100 worth of items for $100 in my steam wallet.
I told him that all my items I wanted so he said he would let me keep some stuff to make the trade a better deal. I said why not, planning to just buy everything again and gain some extra money.
I did not know how trading for money worked.
So after a little while of talking he said the way it work is you send the trade then I’ll send the digital gift card code and then I’ll accept the trade. I asked what stopped him from just accepting the trade and never giving me the code. He replied that he’s an experienced trader and that if I check is profile I could see some of his trades and his rep. So I did, all his rep was positive ofc and he had screenshots of other big trades and was in several trading groups.
So we did the trade and he gave me the code and when I tried to redeem it said it had already been redeemed.
This was not the end of the scam.
I told him it didn’t work and he said that he would try buying another code. Then for whatever reason he says that he would have to send me a minimum of $200 and that he would do that if I gave him some more items. I reluctantly did, which seems really stupid but at that point it seemed that that was my only chance to get my money. So the trade goes through and he gives me another code which redeemed, but I didn’t get any money. At first I thought it hadn’t went through yet but I checked my library and I had a random puzzle game show up. I looked up the game and saw it was $0.49 and then checked my recent transactions and say that that was what I redeemed. After that the guy said nothing.
So I reported him.
Now my account has stopped working and has been really buggy and it doesn’t seem like I can do anything on it. This just happened an hour ago so I don’t know if my account is being deleted or what.
At this point I don’t know what to do.