HOW TO: Report a Scammer (Read this first!)

Note: PLEASE do not report a scam on multiple communities. For example, if you report on SR, don't report it here as well.
EXCEPTION: If you made a report on SR a long time ago and it hasn't been handled yet, you may post it here too. Please keep in mind to request closure on SR, so you don't double-report.
Note 2: Please do reports in English or German, other languages will take longer to process.
Note 3: Please read the FAQ as well before creating a report: http://forums.f-o-g.eu/threads/4418-faq.html



Reporting a Scammer.

Proof is required and a particular format is highly encouraged. Post your report in this forum here, logged-in from your Steam account.

Click here to link your Account now!

An example scammer report should look like below. (See an easy way to get these links!)

As most of the Image Hosters nowadays auto-delete uploaded pictures after a certain amount of time, we have created our own Filehosting Site.
Please use this ONLY - pictures uploaded to other Hosters may slow down your Report, as we will re-locate the pictures.

Our Filehosting site can be found here: http://files.f-o-g.eu


Please note:
- Do NOT re-size pictures, by the site or by shrinking it, we must be able to read them clear and fully.
- We require the pictures to be uploaded permanently, and not on some download site in a .rar, or on photobucket with an account where ppl can delete the pictures after a day. Ideally its on tiny-pic. We need those pics to be there at least a month or longer. We are already quite busy, having to record/upload everything again is not something we plan to do. Keep that stuff up for a long time.
- Keep trade chats short and concise. We really don't need to know 37 pages of random chat. But we DO require continuity of the entire trade chat with overlapping parts that we can check that we have the entire picture.
- You may edit out personal info from the chat transcript, but DO note it with *censored personal info*, but we do want to see the entire continuity of the chat in the screen-shots. NO skip overs
- You may blank out your steam account login name on steam viewed profiles etc, so you don't give out valuable login info of yourself by the screen-shots. You could also make only a cutout that it wont show that.
- As some LF Admins may be able to speak other languages then English, (for example, DataStorm speaks Dutch, Diego Italian, etc), the main language used is English. A recent report in French was applied, and with Google translate we couldn't make heads or tails of it, especially when the chat transcript was about 300 lines, a lot of French "slang" used that could not be translated, etc. Therefore, we require that reports will be done in English, and that screen-shot conversations are in English. Exceptions in other languages only if that admin masters that language and is willing to it.
- If any looks tampered, the entire report will be discarded, and the reporter will be marked for the Caution list as attempting to falsify a scammer report.

Usage of the website
For this, it is required to have a certain setting in steam:

- Right click the steam icon in your tray, and choose "Settings". Click here to go straight to interface tab.
- In the image below the option is indicated with a blue arrow. Please ensure it is ticked.



To check an account against the database:

View the user's profile and copy the (custom) URL paste it into SteamRep's search field.



Select that line of text (URL) with the mouse, and press CTRL-C to copy it into the clipboard.

Visit SteamRep » Home, and paste (CTRL-V) that URL (ALWAYS use the FULL URL) into the box, and click the "Check" button:



The website will then show the current known reputation of that person, steam ID information, all handy links to backpack sites, google searches etc.






Credits to Mattie.

 

Updated 26/06/2014
- Added note regarding our Filehosting site -- which is now required for all screenshots!

 

Updated the rule regarding double-reporting (exception for long-standing SR reports).