Something interesting I just noticed about Noob, actually. It looks like he's actually working with a ragtag network of scammers from the same site that hacked the Steam forums a few days ago.
I just posted another thread about this
here. VERY short version of the event is that somebody managed to somehow steal
thousands of Genuine Purity Fists, and has flooded the market with them, and now there's a very good chance that Valve will delete every single one of them (all trades are very easy to trace).
I decided to pull up Noob's backpack in TF2Items. Since Noob's backpack is private, TF2Items only has a cached version of the backpack from before he switched to private.
http://www.tf2items.com/profiles/76561198004487686
Take a look here. Looks like he's actually got a TON of GPFs in his backpack. This was the last known status of his backpack before he decided to go into hiding by turning his profile private.
Also look at his previous Steam aliases:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198004487686/namehistory
(EDIT: It looks like he's changed his alias so many times since posting this that the names I wanted to draw attention to have been pushed off the list. He had changed his name to several variations of "Selling G Fists 2.00", which is what I wanted to point out.)
Looks like on Nov 15 (important date, I'll tell you why later), he was pretty desperate to get rid of these GPFs, since he changed his Steam alias to say that he was selling them.
Now, how do I know these GPFs are stolen? Click on any of the GPFs in his inventory on the TF2Items page. It shows the original owners of the item, and shows the full trade history. They
all came from people who have been confirmed as stealing/distributing GPFs.
From the Facepunch thread exposing the whole scandal:
NoMaD [Y|U|VIEW|MY|BP] -- known scammer, currently on JSW's friends list.
SteamRep -- http://www.steamrep.com/index.php?id=76561198024995821
BP full of GFPs -- http://www.tf2items.com/id/lele0108?time=1321135769
ProwL -- number of scammer friends, likely recruited by NoMaD, whose on his list.
SteamRep -- http://steamrep.com/index.php?id=prowlx
BP full of GFPs -- http://www.tf2items.com/id/prowlx?time=1321336810
Squirrel -- likely recruited by NoMaD, whose on his list.
SteamRep -- http://steamrep.com/index.php?id=ymerej135
BP full of GFPs -- http://www.tf2items.com/id/ymerej135?time=1321232911
Sir Icy -- Newer Acct, simple name, NoMaD on friends list.
SteamRep -- http://steamrep.com/index.php?id=icycube123
BP full of GFPs -- http://www.tf2items.com/id/icycube123?time=1321115557
Freez1e -- Established Trader, seems likely innocent / scammed -- as they traded buds for bulk GPF -- BUT, friends with NoMaD
SteamRep -- http://steamrep.com/index.php?id=freez1e
BP full of GPFs -- http://www.tf2items.com/id/freez1e?time=1320984274 -- follow the history back to see the buds traded out.
Let's also take into consideration the fact that all of this first started happening on Friday. Noob's backpack went private just a few days after that - on November 15, the day he got all of these stolen GPFs. Why would he go private immediately after receiving a ton of stolen items? Cause he knows damn well that they're stolen, and wants to try to hide the fact. However, Steam's API allows us to track his items a lot more than he seems to think.
So this means that our good friend, Noob, is working with a ring of known scammers. This, on top of his already shady trading methods (asking 2.66 for keys) only further proves the fact that Noob is deliberately trying to scam and rip people off.
So, I guess this is my official request to the Skial moderators/admins to kindly ban Noob from this community. I would also suggest leaving him a mark on his
SteamRep, since we can easily see that he's trying to scam people with stolen items.
Also, Noob sold all of his GPFs to TF2Warehouse already. What a piece of shit.
You don't wanna step on my toes son
I believe that's my line, motherfucker.