ah, I was right when I said that to you then....
Other things I know ppl get their accounts disabled or backpack deleted, or reverted to a x date for:
- Trading for fraudulent keys (say you trade a refined for a key, the key has been bought with fraud CC or w/e)
- Attacks on your account (brute force), happens the most to ppl who have the same nickname as login name. Use different nicknames, and let ppl add you via the steam page, not via your login name.
- Trading for stolen/phished items. The best you can get is a revert of your backpack to near a month ago.
- Having 1 computer, and like x accounts where ever logged on to it. ALL those accounts can get disabled for above. No use in having a 2nd account to prevent such as above etc. One occasion a guy bought a scammed max head, and had his, his brothers, his fathers and couple secondary accounts, and a friends account disabled.
- Do not log your account into another one's computer. As in NEVER.
Tips in general:
- Don't do empty trades, make them equal in value (not a max head for a crate etc)
- If making bigger trades for quite valuable items, make SCREENSHOTS of the trades and the chats around it, get their STEAM_ID's. Check them if they are banned on the UHC or other trading, or are mentioned in scam treads on sourceop.com forums. Also, ask if they have a reputation tread on the sourceop forum and actually READ it, and check if the person you talk to is actually that guy. There are a lot of impersonators, they just link to the tread but are not that person.
- Check the account (steam profile) of the person you trade with. Things that are suspicious: low number of hours of playtime, only a couple games, near empty backpack, hidden steam profile, use tf2items.com to check history of the backpack.
- There is NO way you can check if any item is not legit. Time IS a good defence, say you want to trade for a unusual, say you cannot trade now, but you trade/buy it in a week time (2 weeks is better). Use opt2.com, like:
http://optf2.com/user/DataStorm to get the serial of an item (click on the item). Note it down, if after 2 weeks its not the same, it should not be trusted.
- Those guys are in a hurry, always, because they know support is on their heels, they want either money or valuable items they can forward fast to other accounts. The more time you take for it, the more they try to hurry you, (they go tomorrow on a vacation, long trip to africa for 6 months, and need to go to bed now etc etc).
ANY legit trading person has all the time you want for it. those dont CARE when they get it, as long as its in a reasonable time. If they cannot trade in a reasonable fashion, just let it pass, there will be other opportunities.
@AA: I would still put a response to steam support that you cannot see on such a gift that there is any form of fraud on it, especially if you already gifted once him a game and you tho that he was returning the favor.
