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If you traded before, you probably seen people trading skins. Well, there are scammers, and this game has more clever skin stealers. Here's an example.

Player 1 recieves a trade from Player 2. Player 1 accepts and Player 2 wants his weapon skins. If he accepts, Player 2 will give Player 1 a Field-Tested AWP | Asiimov ($65). He accepts, but Player 2 wants a Battle-Scarred MAC-10 | Heat (around 0.30.)

Now listen carefully, because this part is important.

Player 2 removes the AWP from the trade and waits for Player 1 to add the MAC-10. He adds it, and Player 2 adds the same AWP. Player 1 and 2 accept the trade. Player 1 looks at the AWP again, and realises that he got a Battle-Scarred AWP | Asiimov ($36) and he's lost $30 in the trade. He then realises that he got scammed.

Here's another way you can get scammed by the scammers:

Player 1, getting his money back and eager to trade for more skins, gets a trade offer from Player 2. Player 2 offers a crate key for a bunch of spare weapon skins that he owns. He accepts, and quickly realises that Player 2 stole his Battle-Scarred AWP | Asiimov and got scammed yet again.


To take precautions to these trades, I recommend:

For the first example, you should always write down what the type of weapon it is and what skin it is, and check before and after they remove the item. If it switches from let's say Well-Worn to Battle-Scarred, then you got scammed and you should decline the trade and report the person doing it.

For the second sample, it's very simple on how to fix it:
DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TRADES BEFORE YOU ACCEPT.
Hell, you should even triple-check if you get the chance. If you do, then you'll probably notice the expensive skin and you should decline the trade and report the scammer.


I might give more tips later on how scammers can scam you. Thanks for reading!