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did i just outsmart a scammer?

TheTacoSniper
By TheTacoSniper
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again, don't talk to him. wait for the 300 to drop, transfer it.

 

walk away.

I already blocked and unfriended both of his accounts, and just to be safe, I changed my steam community link

wow, thats a lot of bees!

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He can chargeback within 90 days or more or so not sure about exact number of days but wait untill then.

I hope you made printscreens of chat logs etc, he could also just report you to steamrep with some shady proof.

he can't charge back if the money is spend or moved.

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This could be entirely different, but there is a certain method of scamming via paypal.

 

A couple of years ago I was selling a car and someone contacted me with an offer way higher than I was asking for.  It smelt strongly of a scam however they insisted to use paypal, which was a little odd as I couldn't imagine how it would be possible to scam using paypal.

 

Did a google search and it turned out to be a very common scam. To cut it short the way it works is they use a payment method that fails after some time, if I recall correctly it was something like maxxed / pending cancellation credit cards. Before it fails they get something from you in return (in the car scam they get you to pay a 'shipping fee'). After some time the paypal payment fails and the scammed person is left with nothing after giving something to the scammer (a significant amount of cash in the car scam, sounds like skins in this scam).

 

If you haven't given anything there should be little risk, however I wouldn't get too excited about that money coming through.

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