Never trust anyone.

So, some of you might remember some guy called Pep. He went by many names, but he applied when he was called Peppermint. Things went south with him, and everyone abandoned him (he told me). I stayed with him for the longest time, keeping him from killing himself. I put my own problems aside to help him get over his. Now, i'm struggling with problems on my own, and he just sounds like he doesn't care. Where i would type a whole paragraph saying that i'm there for him, he would just say 'ah that sucks man', or something like that. He even goes as far as asking me to buy him stuff when i'm talking about my shit. Now, we've still been playing for a bit, but i can't access my pc for a while. I asked him if he could broker some items. He said sure, and happily sent a trade offer. I knew him well enough, i thought by myself, to trust him with ~45 keys in items. I even sold him a 26 key engineer set and letting him pay in terms of a few keys for 3-4 weeks. Now, i went to bed last night. I woke up, went to say goodmorning and saw he had a private profile. I thought 'hmm, thats a bit strange'. Then i went to check on my items, only to discover he had traded them away for his personal gain, basically scamming me. He also still owed me 15 keys from that engineer set. So, basically i just lost about 60 keys, bought with my own hard earned money and first paycheck...

The moral of the story is; don't trust ANYONE, not even your closest online 'friends', because some people still have bad intentions, even though you think of them as a friend.

Please spread the word, and warn everyone to be careful online.

Here is his profile: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198412605441

 

I know he did bad things, including scamming someone a few months back. But i just felt we were really good friends, and had been for almost a year. Seeing as in i helped him out of suicide and all the bad things. This is just a warning to everyone out there to watch out for their so called 'friends', as they might seem nice, but they have bad intentions.

 

To me he wasn't a scammer. I met him when i started to play on hg servers, which is a long time ago. He was there when i applied for admin, when i felt depressed, when i was in trouble, but recently, he just doesn't seem to care. He was not a scammer to me. He told me he was drunk that night and severely regrets scamming that person.

 

He scammed someone in the same period as i resigned from my staff position. He said he regretted that, but i think he got over it and ended up learning nothing from it.

 

He did pay the user back, does iTrade ring a bell? That was also the reason he got fired from his staff position

 

Update: for the people who still remember Pep, he's playing dead again. I have officially lost about 60 keys... If anyone is kind enough to help me get back up, i have 2, maybe 2,5 keys to start back up from.