jhood Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Hey I've been playing on the Crackhouse server for a long time, and this player has also. We, over time, have become "friends" and talk from time to time on the server. Well he attempted this scam on me tonight - I have reported to steam already http://www.reddit.co...l_invoice_scam/ His steam community link below, sorry he was not in game for me to get his steam id when this happened. He goes by Col.Mck http://steamcommunit.../ThunderBuddyzz I'll put the conversation through steam message below here. it's a little TL;DR but just for your sake you can see the attempt, I've got the screen shots of the paypal side also =) Tuesday, February 17, 2015 coL.mck: you should trade your knife for a better one. the skin is sick but i meant like to a bayo jhood: i like what i got coL.mck: fsho just saying you could cause its expensive jhood: I just sold my huntsman fade and grabbed this lol coL.mck: you had a huntsman fade? coL.mck: wow nice coL.mck: bought it or? jhood: a m9 bayo would be cool with this skin but they are never in market because they are worth more than that jhood: yeah i bought it, and my glock fade is worth 160 also coL.mck: they are over 700$ coL.mck: i saw a trade for a kara fade 1:1 for the m9 coL.mck: you have to buy it with keys jhood: meh coL.mck: ayo i have 295$ in paypal and really want to buy your knife. i cant fucking move money into my steam account. its weird. but if you want name ur price. i dont know how much ur knife is jhood: it's like 270 in steam market but let me see something coL.mck: ill go first. i dont care u a streamer and a friend jhood: yeah no worries jhood: go to google and type in "steam gift cards paypal" jhood: see if you can do that first coL.mck: i tried that homie. 5 times. coL.mck: fucking blows jhood: if not, we can just transfer the paypal amount, but I'm not too familiar with how it works coL.mck: i just need ur paypal email and i can send it to you straight up jhood: i mean, I could just buy you one with the money on paypal and give it to you, cause i really like the quality of fade on mine jhood: but I have to make sure paypal isn't stupid with me too lol coL.mck: ill pay all 295 :/ i like it too lol and all good jhood: give me a sec, i don't mind doing it coL.mck: ight all good jhood: for your sake i'll type this in steam so you have some proof or whatever lol coL.mck: LOL ok ok jhood: I'm going to let you transfer your money into my paypal and in return give you a flip knife marble fade coL.mck: ok whats ur email jhood: i think the one for my paypal is <script cf-hash='f9e31' type="text/javascript"> /* */</script> jhood: my name is jordan hoodlet but it'll probably say eric hoodlet jhood: when I was too young to use paypal i used my brothers name haha coL.mck: LOL ive done that before with accounts coL.mck: i have 4 older brothers jhood: yeah it's jhood: my email from 6th grade however many years ago haha jhood: I wonder if i can change it cause that's super lame coL.mck: nice lol coL.mck: i dont hink you can coL.mck: think* jhood: just let me know when you send it coL.mck: ight jhood: the one on the market is super sweet too jhood: it's got a blue purple red play side coL.mck: ight i sent it. im new with paypal too. Whew coL.mck: god that was weird coL.mck: better not take my money and run homie. APPARENTLY i cant get it back jhood: lol don't worry jhood: I don't see it yet though coL.mck: make sure your email is right jhood: but yeah I definitely wouldn't do this with anyone else jhood: oh yeah might be in the email instead coL.mck: yeah fsho coL.mck: i sent a paid invoice to you so you should see it coL.mck: i did this with a fool 2 days ago and bought a awp asiimov. i paid a lot coL.mck: like 100$ i had 395 so i had 295 jhood: i'm resetting my email pass cause i have like 10 different passwords atm, need to unify them coL.mck: coL.mck: is that right? coL.mck: what i put jhood: yesir coL.mck: ight jhood: cole mckinley jhood: I see it now coL.mck: yeah coL.mck: was it in ur email? jhood: yeah coL.mck: ight jhood: This is PayPal Gift Family/Friends. This gift takes up to 1 hour(s) before the money will be credited to your account and its non-refundable. coL.mck: it said that? all it told me was that it was non refundable jhood: so I have the invoice but I haven't like hit "accept" or something yet coL.mck: no it went through coL.mck: marked as paid coL.mck: i paid it coL.mck: i got no $ in my account jhood: ah okay so we just gotta wait til it pops up in mine jhood: still showing a 0 dollar balance for me jhood: but, it does show up in my acc on paypal now jhood: like it shows you sent it coL.mck: its in your account and i cant do anything about it like i cant refund or anything so it there jhood: it's cool if we can't get it to work on my end i'll send it back jhood: i'll keep refreshing til it works coL.mck: it worked. it should be there and it said its non refundable. i just read the other terms and conditions and it says it cannot be refunded by the crediter or the recipient. it'll show up jhood: text me i'll send you a pic of what it's got on my screen jhood: (edited out my phone number) jhood: wifi in the basement no good lol jhood: it's sending the pic coL.mck: is it ok if i get the knife now ? i gotta go to my daughters basketball game.? coL.mck: god paypal is weird jhood: i'm gonna grab that one out of the market for you cause i like the fade i've got jhood: that's why i was waitin on the money to get into paypal coL.mck: i wont be on until tonight or tomorrow and dont really feel safe leaving the money without anything. please dude i overpaid cause i like yours. a lot. i would really appreciate it. jhood: if you're off before I get it I'll send the trade offer you can just grab it when you get back coL.mck: ummm idk, i like it but still dont feel comfortable jhood: waitin on the money cause i really don't have a clue how paypal works lol jhood: don't worry i'm not gonna take your monies! coL.mck: i trust you and all but please dude. i dont know if you a father but you understand. i gots to go in 2 min coL.mck: like i dont know you irl coL.mck: but you seem hella chill jhood: if it makes you feel better you can call me lol jhood: only because idk how paypal works, I just wanna see the money then i'll give you my knife jhood: like I know I see the invoice but i want it to say $295 available or whatever jhood: I'll give you mine also-the one you want coL.mck: lol. here ill even give you my knife if you dont trust me. we will switch and then ill give you urs back and then you can buy me another? i am a stickler when it comes to giving someone money and not getting ANYTHING in return jhood: I understand your situation lol jhood: sec googling coL.mck: it would make me feel a lot more comfortable. here, you dont have to if you dont want to but ill send you a trade request here You have accepted the trade request from coL.mck. coL.mck: do you want to hold onto my knife while i hold onto yours? jhood: not that I don't trust you, i'm keeping my side covered too jhood: just wait for the money to show up jhood: cause i'm reading someone can retract the payment before it shows up as in your available funds coL.mck: you can trust me. i trust you too but since i cant get my money back i'm a little scared coL.mck: yeah but apparently since its a paypal gift you cant do that coL.mck: i read the terms and conditions coL.mck: :/ jhood: I'll send you 295 of my money lol jhood: if it goes wrong coL.mck: you have 0$ in your paypal lol jhood: yeah still $0 coL.mck: ok well i gtg we'll talk later jhood: I just usually pay with my credit card jhood: call me if you want to coL.mck: oh ok cool jhood: I'll text you when it shows up coL.mck: ok i might coL.mck: ok coL.mck: peace jhood: later! good luck to your daughter! jhood: Not sure if this is common or not, but it's the first time I've seen it and it hasn't been mentioned before. Already seen a few people fall to this trick. So the trick here is that they send you an invoice for YOU to pay them XXX amount that was agreed before hand, then they immediately mark is as paid. So to anyone who isn't used to dealing with paypal or isn't careful it seems like they have received the XXX amount in their paypal. Something else worth mentioning is that the payment method is marked as paypal gift, so it seems normal that the amount transferred isn't showing up in your paypal balance. Example: http://imgur.com/gImXANR The scammer then goes on about he doesn't want to get scammed, and tried to persuade you to trade him the items, since it's a gift version and they cannot use charge back (apparently) you are more inclined to give them the items they bought. Hope this bring awareness to this scam and help out a few people jhood: yeah if the money doesn't show up I'm just going to ignore this lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnt Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 We can't do anything but refer you to something in which you have already done, which is reporting him to steam. As well as we cant take copy pasted logs of steam chats for future reference. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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