Sept. 4, 2014, 6:18 a.m.
(Last edited by Potato on Sept. 4, 2014, 7:02 a.m.)
It is strange.
Insurgency was on sale recently, so I wondered if could it be someone using an alt to try to buy up all the cheap copies of insurgency to resell them later? But the profit margin on Insurgency looks very, very small. He's paying 3 keys now while the Russian price is about $9.50 for 1 copy, and the Russian price gets as low as $5.50 each with the 4 pack, and he's taking the risk that it could go on sale again
To ban someone, use their Steam ID64 (the number which starts 765611...)
It is someone's alt. Keys at it's backpack don't seem to be fraudulent. I thought that scammers don't buy keys from store/market.
upd. Btw ban works fine for me.
Scammers buy keys with bad credit card, for example... maybe more difficult to detect if they're buying on Steam Market. But I think it makes no sense to trade carded keys for games, because they just give Valve extra time to catch them and tradelock the account. A scammer would try to cash their bad keys out to BTC/Skrill/Webmoney asap. Why waste time trying to launder their bad keys thru a pile of identical games that will take ages to sell? :D
It's a really strange account. It has almost no game activity. He created the account and didn't do anything for 30 days (purchasing lockout period maybe), then he added a few people, then he waited another two weeks (Steamguard wasn't activated, maybe), and then he got really busy and added 200 people in 4 days :o
I don't have any trades with him, but maybe one of you should just add him and ask WTF he is doing? :D
I have noticed another user with similar activity recently. He was trading me tf2 keys for dota keys for no reason I can see (seems like he could even be losing money) and then buying many copies of games with the dota keys. But his account looks like a totally legit 5 year account with lots of games and lots of rep and trading activity. So maybe these people have some market which pays them a lot for these games they are buying here? Or maybe they are just bad at math...