jakksilves has the most contact with him out of all of us.
If anyone knows any inside information on this, it would be him.
Not true. After I had the smart ass idea to use him a while back for a project I terminated earlier today, he has not spoken to me in regards to this or anything at all. I suspect he has not reached out to anyone.
How ironic you would say that. At least his reports were of a high risk instead of being the byproduct of an automation.
Keep in mind I only just joined DGN forums today; not so sure what he's been up too here, but I'm speaking from a SR viewpoint.
http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/how-to-find-the-scammer-again.59728/#post-168337
As I said, I should hope it is something simple as this.
If he sees this, I would be very careful putting his name and SteamRep in the same sentence or discussion. If it was not obvious before, he is hostile towards the community, to quote, 'the system'.
My opinion is that given how he would never knowingly steal items, (He informed me and Xel'Naga a while ago over transferring four grand in a single transaction. That is a lot of money.) I am very confident that Steam made a mistake. Steam Support has been fooled into giving a Hijacker the account of a well known trader before, this could very well be the result of Steam Support showing incompetence once again for believing the fake reports of 'attempted scams' via the Report Violation function. There have been over 50 Impersonations of him in this month alone, who is to say how many more are on the community, taking items from foolish traders right now? Yet this is not his fault, he has come to me asking about what to do in regards to the impersonations. My 'advice' was to force/push updates on his profile, appearance, security...everything that has to do with trading. It seemed to work during the Winter Sale as I received notice he was flagged for scamming by Steam due to reports. That flag disappeared sometime back in late January. I suspect, something happened this month, that either convinced Steam Support that he was scamming items (a fabricated report from someone not involved with him or did in fact, trade with him then later turned into a problem and opened a ticket) or the amount of false positives fooled the semi-automated system to ban him. Either way I believe the damage has been done, if he chooses to continue middlemanning after this it will be his own choice. Assuming he gets out of this unscathed.
Then...there is the option that I am certain many will be quick to go towards. That he has gone rogue. His behavior after becoming trade banned is suspicious.
Again, just my personal opinion. From an Admin-stance, any issues with Valve should be worked with Valve and once resolved, should be notified to me or the admin over on skial that 'keeps an eye on him'.
