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Scam Report: k0fighter
A CS:S account trade with a 'trusted' member turns into a login-and-lock scam — right in the Scam Reports forum where it belongs.
A March 2008 Scam Reports thread where user logik92 accuses trader 'k0fighter' of scamming him out of a 7-digit Steam account during a trade, after k0fighter stalled with excuses about verifying CAL experience before going silent and locking logik92 out of his own account. Fellow member Rock Superstar chimes in claiming he too was scammed by the same person for a 6-digit account, admitting he never posted a warning himself. The thread ends with both members agreeing k0fighter deserves a ban, a small but classic snapshot of the trust-based, frequently-betrayed account trading economy of the site.
5 minutes of no response, he logs off and changes my pass and contact id.— logik92
he's fucking gayass scammer! he scammed my 6 digit, ban him out if this really fast— Rock Superstar
Scam Reports: How It Works
The rulebook for how Fkn0wned hunted down its own scammers
A pinned mod post by Shifty laying out the process for reporting scams in the Trading section: victims had to prove the scam with screenshots or chat logs, get verified by staff over MSN, and link the scammer's profile before a ban and IP logging into the site's Scammer List. It reflects the community's informal but earnest self-policing system, born from the risks of unregulated peer-to-peer trading without middlemen. A blunt warning was issued to would-be scammers that the staff would track them down.
This goes as a message to all the scammers here aswell. We will catch you.— Shifty