FIND THE TRANS PERSON!!!!
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You will never find them. None of you will. This is where your story ends. And to you, my brave volunteer. Who somehow f
Earlier this evening, I received a message from this user asking if I could talk to them about something. I was immediately suspicious of this, but opted to play along just in case.
They claimed that they had accidentally reported my steam account and I would need to appeal it.
Important to note is at this point in the conversation they left the server we were both in and the only way to continue the conversation was to accept their friend request. (This was the second by the way, I already declined the first because obviously)
In short. Don’t trust strangers on the internet, and learn to read carefully.
Also one last note: Steam has a whole page dedicated to avoiding this exact scam. Go figure.
I had been eating at the time so right after I went to take a closer look at the situation. First I checked on my steam account to find that nothing had happened to it. Not so much of a notification of this so called report.
So let’s go through this, shall we?
“Hey there,
Your request is Ticket: HT-5VCR-7XMP-KDBN has been updated, see response below.”
We begin with the first of many grammatical mistakes. “Your request *is* Ticket: HT-5VCR-7XMP-KDBN *has been updated*”
Oh and I lied, that wasn’t the crème de la crème, this is:
This “email” was never sent. The scammer just wrote it up in a draft and thought I wouldn’t notice.
“This Discord account will be taken action.”
“Will be taken action”
I get it, verbs are hard.
Also, my discord account? I thought this was about my steam! I’m really about to lose it all aren’t I?
I don’t think I have to explain how this verb mismatch is very awkward and would not fit in a professional email, especially one that would likely be automatically generated.
I would also be inclined to put “the” in front of “response”, but that’s not nearly as egregious.
“Avoid this user - Fraudulent”
I love this because it’s presented so seriously with big bold letters and yet is so obviously ill-fitting. “Avoid this user” Who are you warning exactly? I’ve been banned already haven’t I?
“Please know that this is concerning, this user has a high risk of losing access to his/her account and if he/she can't make an appeal and provide valid proof on the said issue.”
Concerning for who exactly? It would be for me, but this email wasn’t sent to me.
“Contact Ms. Vivian Li, a member of the Steam Admin & Support Steam Team, the one who handled this report. Contact Steam Support so we can assist you.”
“Support Steam Team”
It even says Steam Support right after this so our guy KNEW the correct word order and just whiffed it.
For those unaware, the “due to” at the front of the first sentence makes it a dependent clause, meaning that it can’t be its own sentence and must be combined with the following one instead.
Look, I don’t want to be too hard on this guy because learning a language is hard and takes effort. Even native English speakers will often have a poor grasp on certain grammatical conventions, a point exemplified every time someone pronounces gif with a hard g.
“If such activities persist, Steam Support has the right to refer the matter to legal authorities. Thank you for contacting us!”
You mean you haven’t contacted them already? You said yourself one sentence ago that I supposedly broke federal and state law.
I like the idea of me just getting a slap on the wrist the first time. Like steam is a 1950’s mother telling me “not to do that again or I’ll get your father involved.”
God this is so funny.
This is truly the crème de la crème of this email. Once again, this is supposedly an email about my Steam account. Why would this person have to contact an admin via discord. Did no one think this through?!
@VsmileHater
@somethinmissing
He gave you up
He left you down
He ran around and deserted you
He made you cry
He said goodbye
He told a lie and hurt you