Probably one scam that I fell for was one that was an appeal to emotion. It was very clever actually, I even knew he was a scammer but went through with it anyway because morality.
Of course, in the end they got banned and probably lost maybe nigh a $1000 in software.
But really though, how greedy and manipulative and anti-social do you have to be to try to scam people on a closed system like Steam? The person was obviously intelligent enough to string along quite a bunch of coherent sentences that could easily convince most people yet not enough to realize that the system they are using pretty much logs every transaction and that they will only end up unhappy in the end.
Of course, in the end they got banned and probably lost maybe nigh a $1000 in software.
But really though, how greedy and manipulative and anti-social do you have to be to try to scam people on a closed system like Steam? The person was obviously intelligent enough to string along quite a bunch of coherent sentences that could easily convince most people yet not enough to realize that the system they are using pretty much logs every transaction and that they will only end up unhappy in the end.