CS2's biggest pro player scam got exposed

CS2 scammers are impersonating pro players to steal skins... We found out the inner workings of the scam..
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[@OpsMasterWoods]

The minecraft music in the background is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Brionick]

haha funny u caught on to that

[@afreshreaction]

people complaining about how boring the video is when they can just watch another video

[@SIimyGoblin]

@@afreshreaction who

[@joshiemah]

If u ever believe you are in a cs lobby with a pro player, then u are beyond saving

[@dibudabug8099]

I mean i have been in plenty. In Faceit and MM. Only idiots get fooled by bait profiles. You can‘t fake tournament medals.

[@joshiemah]

@@dibudabug8099 I mean lobby like the game menu lobby but yeah I agree

[@lowtf2]

Bronze 2 playing with fallen 🗣️

[@abvser]

@@joshiemah Damn whatchu doin here dawg?

[@joshiemah]

@@abvser CS is my main game, been playing for a longgggg time

[@salatnor1337]

I hate scammers!

[@PhucPham-ef7bp]

We all dude

[@tomasoleksy4411]

​@@PhucPham-ef7bp yes

[@aqualalalala]

Im just tryinna make a livin madrilla

[@wuuiii7391]

No, i love them!!!1!!!1!!

[@user-pe6ct7ut8t]

They gotta earn money too :(

[@meanmaverick7256]

Who are they getting with these scams you ask? KIDS! Not everyone who plays this game is an adult pixel collector Ohne..

[@mirainikki6665]

Then watch your fuckin kids, mlao, this game is not rated "E for everyone" Dumb parents - dumb kids

[@Oscylot88]

Nah, I known a grown ass man that fell for this same shit...

[@Oscylot88]

Scammed by Osee

[@wraithje]

false, the vast majority of victims are not children, and the vast majority of players dont have knowledge of a lot of these things, simple as that

[@115justus]

the amount of clueless people i have seen on casual with expensive inventory is insane, not everyone who has skins is into the skins scene

[@SetraFX]

Set your inventory private and never accept friend requests.

[@szumielele4758]

but you cant use buff with private inventory

[@ezh2612]

⁠@@szumielele4758Unprivate when using it and private again after then

[@trevorthabest161]

To sell anything on any website you can't private your inventory

[@reqh1444]

useless info just dont be stupid and you won't be scammed its that easy

[@justadude8716]

@@trevorthabest161 You can unprivate you inventory whenever you want to sell or buy, assuming you don't do it daily, I have no problem dealing with the inconvenience if it means keeping my inv safe.

[@ProNinjaHax]

The Ukraine guy trying to do a Norwegian accent is hilarious lol

[@lupezo5193]

Idc how good the steam profile is I know a pro player don't want nothing to do with me lmao

[@XxEVERYGAMINGxX]

yeah no one would fall for this, but i have had people on faceit adding me asking to play just normal looking players, who then ask to join discord which i do then they do the same thing with the hub, and many people have fallen for that.

[@marquesventura7599]

okay but what if a pro player has a super duper crush on you

[@lupezo5193]

@@marquesventura7599 shii I never thought about it like that.... I accept now ; ) are you a pro by chance?

[@LantaSanta]

this guy looks like he learned about internet privacy 2 days ago and now tries to flex on ppl w his knowledge lol

[@idkhdbxbxbdbduxjxbdma]

true, no need of tor & proxychain-ing

[@Dragon-mv6vy]

no he doesn't, you sound like some 10yo shit talker.

[@dibudabug8099]

Wym? HAHAHA

[@evvte]

dude started yapping about "a back door to steam servers" or some shit when it's literally just that lobby skins are grabbed from client sided data meanwhile in game its server sided. A yes backdoor thats a hacker word.

[@novy1198]

better to be prepared for the worst

[@PROJonYz]

who even thinks that "PRO" player will just add u and want to trade, fr.. 💀

[@benmitja3372]

I recently almost fell for such a scammer, he did it more subtle and faked the phishing sites even better. Luckily I realized it in time and saved my Account.

[@carolxd9235]

DUDE THE BACKROUND GUY IS CHEATING HOW TF DOES HE HAVE A STAT-TRAK GLOCK FADE

[@douglaced5910]

skin changer

[@hayvxyz]

exactly, the guy is cheating himself and probably knows the pro players have a skin changer, saddest thing is no one notices

[@OfficialGameHub]

i was looking at chat for the first 2 minutes thinking how cancer it was until mr ohne himself said "mods mods, timeout skipperonis" thank you mr ohne

[@SonGokuSSJ35]

I never expected I'll see such a type of trash scammers like this ones

[@grigorigovno844]

that niko guy is absolutely insane. he also invited me, asked me to join in discord, he screenshared his CS and showed me that he even had all the trophies from majors. but it was too sus his inventory was private, he was somehow able to change and manipulate in game that he could show all the skins and trophies while in discord call.

[@babuu999]

i fell for this one but i didnt have anything worthwhile in my inventory at the time but couple weeks later i notice that there are recent messages with someone on my friends list .messages from myself that i never wrote asking them if they want to join my faceit team ...long story short someone else on my friends list got scammed for their whole inventory because they thought it was me so they trusted it..the worst feeling is having to prove that i was scammed first and wasnt part of some master plan

[@im-banned]

1:24 EVERY skinchanger or inventory changer is client sided and no one will be able to see those skins in actual game. If you can see his skins in the lobby - he uses inventory changer, if he were to use skinchnager you wouldn't see his skins. There is also a cheat funciton that shares your skin configuration with other cheaters (that use the same cheat) via voice packets or through cheat provider's servers but its a difrent topic

[@jotjoy]

skin changers work in the lobby and everyone can see them as its not server until you join a match

[@im-banned]

​@@jotjoy You're talking about inventory changers. Inventory changer adds the skin to your client sided inventory and because lobbies are (partially) client sided and the player agent + held item (skin) is send by player + you can see the skin in buy menu. Skin changer on the other hand "simply" changes the skin that you can see while holding the gun, it doesn't add it to the players inventory so it will never be visible in buy menu or game lobby.

[@JustAnotherAspect]

and you know this because?...

[@im-banned]

@@JustAnotherAspect uhhh i made huge research that i starded back in 2016

[@Somi-dp7eg]

bbecause he chets or he used to its simple​@@JustAnotherAspect

[@lopsided4831]

on cs go they managed to pull off the quarterfinalist ,semi finalist and finalist coin from the major idk how they did it but it looked even more convincing

[@alphigetti]

They used to use the Faceit method like back in like 2016/2017. I guess it's just getting recycled now in cs2 lol

[@Dremin2009]

I have reported probably 50 scammer profiles sending me friend invites, i accept one from time to time to check up on what their scam is, usually it involves them wanting you to play a CS tournament with them and they send u a third party website link to sign up. Just never click any links people send you on steam, and don't go to random peoples discords either unless you are going to be extremely careful.

[@mr.someone5679]

Thank you for your service man! I once got scammed with one of those third party websites, it was a fake esl page, it had sponsors and everything and it came in a notification from an "esl bot" as i was watching a tournament so i though it was legit, because esl was giving out prizes to the viewers. And i remember thinking it was legit because they didnt ask for my password, but for my number, so it was a fake steam support tab to recover password. Seconds later i was logged out of steam and the steam account was changed to russia. That was in 2020. I thankfully recovered my steam account and no skins were stolen because they were very cheap i suppose, it took a couple days to recover the account.

[@Dirhtt]

Just got wisdom teeth removed I’m in a lot of pain. This video made me laugh and now I feel like I got punched in the mouth 100 times.

[@dayhawk12]

I knew that pimple guy was too good to be trusted

[@GRZ125]

you can tell who never played runescape

[@tonyt5711]

runescape teaching us valuable life skills lmao, trust no one, especially not ppl in the GE

[@xelm_]

real. they've never exp a noted addy scim lookin like a rune scim in west v bank.

[@lucky8085]

i still will never forget when i got scammed for my stattrak bayonet lore FT , i trusted the dude bc i sent like $100 of skins at first and he sent after so i trusted him enough to send the knife first and immediately got blocked on paypal and steam.

[@dup1ex]

the most important thing is to never sign your steam. just dont. if a website tells you to, dont believe it

[@IBradFrazer]

Not exactly the Fort Knox of scams.

[@ayjbray]

Something he didn’t run into that I want to also bring to light…these guys will also pretend they are streaming on twitch with 100’s of viewers to try to entice people into thinking they will be playing in front of 100’s of viewers but they’re all bots, and just 1 min of watching chat will expose it. I got invited by someone that tried to pull this and spotted it easy. Hope it helps someone not fall for these scumbags.

[@tObito687]

a good way to know if it is a scammer is if the profile highlights the fact that theyre a pro player. most pro steam accounts arent even named after them. like s1mples account being named Akkerman for example. another good way to verify is if they have any tournament awards in their inventory (given that they actually won the tournaments obviously)

[@dibudabug8099]

yes how fucking dumb can you be to not check their finalist/semi medals. So braindead.

[@jacquesblack3080]

almost fell for this as a new player with 200$ inventory. some friends call me paranoid for disabling looking to play + setting lobby privacy to invite both in my autoexec.

[@GoodKarma90]

Many pro players have their accounts public and if they ever made the playoffs of a CS major, they will absolutely have a collectible trophy. That's one way to verify, especially for many of the big name pro players.

[@johnyo2153]

I nearly got scammed by this 4 weeks ago!! I had Niko and Hunter in my lobby as well! Niko was trying to get me to setup a faceit account to go into a match Everything was legit and looked so promising but I knew something just felt wrong!

[@otamuralha706]

i actually found a guy in a premier match the other day, he had gloves and expensive knife but when i went to his steam inventory only had a couple sht basic skins, was so confused

[@maratpirate6343]

thats just new valve update that doesnt show new received items for 10 days

[@aidentry6187]

I got almost the same scam, but all my skin was on trade lock thank god, steam helped me in 2 days my acc was same

[@BenRat-cy7rn]

Damn, I just found out that that one guy tried to scam me with inventing me to their faceithub and I nearly lost all my skins. Thankfully I stopped the trade before the 6 days were over and I just changed my Steam password so that guy can’t do that again. Is there anything else I should do?

[@scorpionsen4302]

Someone tried to get me to do this EXACT thing the other day and when it wanted me to sign in/ I had to trade all my items before playing I was out.

[@soaringdragon3972]

The thumbnail is wild 💀

[@Mystix998]

Real🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Zer01211]

I got send a fake faceit hub, luckily i noticed that the font was off so i realized it was a scam

[@theeKakashi1337]

Almost fell for this yesterday.... Glad I'm so scammer immune!

[@izack0128]

I remember back in 2022, I almost lost my account. Glad my friend told me that somehow I messaged them so I checked and disable all account access and changed my password immediately. The scammer asked for a vote so I vote but it wasn't a vote. So the moral of the story, they use your kindness for their gain, so don't ever do the same mistake as I do. I know I'm dumb and fkn r-tard for do not think that this might be a scam but hey human learn from their mistakes. Good for me to through that shit tbh. Imagine what if the scam hits me but instead of CS skins, they took my whole savings? I would unalive myself which is really worse. But it isn't as bad as sticking to Valorant as your main FPS game.

[@freakingpackachu9015]

Mooooods

[@Confixes]

I been api scammed from DMarket. Went to deposit a bloodsport ak. Black laminate karambit and print stream so I could get my first butterfly and went to look at my DMarket account and it wasn’t there. Still hunting for my first butterfly 🙏

[@maratpirate6343]

dumass you were api scammed by scammers while doing a trade with dmarket, look who you are sendimg items to

[@jonnywest4799]

All these bad apples have made it so when people add me to trade I just block them

[@LuKoOnyyy]

Can you get omehow scammed like they sent you link for ''trade'' and they omehow steal your account? I want to check for future

[@Jawwz2k]

the steam support has been cracking down i got hacked and got it back before anything was gone

[@benboelens4812]

this is old, i catch some scammers like this years a go

[@hursty7732]

I just got scammed for my entire inventory, not really sure how but i changed my steam name and it disabled my authenticator (not sure how they got into my account) they traded everything off to 2 bot accounts. 5k worth of skins etc

[@ataraxical6694]

Almost fell victim to this, i logged on and everything but when they asked me to trade my inventory thats when i realized the scam, within a minute i was able to change my password TWICE and luckily I was using a VPN. Im surprised these faceit verification scams arent more talked about

[@ataraxical6694]

For context, i played with this guy on a faceit match a few matches before, he friended me during the match then later that night invited me to a discord call

[@ATR-_]

I had one scammer running a fake stream with exactly 90K followers and exactly 1000 viewers, he tried sending me fake ESEA discord links with over 15k people in them and he kicked me instantly from the discord when I didn’t fall for his scam. His profile had scammed skins too.

[@Elgrecko87]

I fell for this, but I was faster than the scammer. I cancelled the trade and reset everything/ revoked any tokens. I got an invite from my cousin to play some faceit - I never played it before and didn’t know what is real and what isn’t.

[@lumbric4271]

I got scammed by 800€ on skins with an 400iq type shit and social engineering.

[@agdefuze42069]

same dude dont feel bad

[@newp0rt]

i mean dude, the accounts look "legit". unless you are some giga nerd there aint no way you know the difference between pro steam pages. they have the likes, the inventory, etc.

[@newp0rt]

that being said, they make you jump through hoops here, if they streamline it a bit, itll be honestly gg.

[@GambasFallacy]

@@newp0rthave you heard of medals? Pros will mist likely have participation medals, if not they are fake, no need to be a „giga nerd“. Use your brain

[@TheMrChill_tv]

never overkill when making sure its safe!! i got scammed 8 years ago while joining a Teamspeak group for a match!

[@san2k11Clips]

I got scammed exactly like that... My Huntsman-knife gone

[@cleannamiee]

midnight cheat has skinchanger lobby sync so others can see aswell

[@TENNOM]

7:48 wait thats kinda insane, so they just spoof the URL because its not even a real window, so its not a real URL, thats actually wild, never seen that, good to know...

[@prestondickey5569]

This scam has been around for like 3 years already

[@crowe852]

Tried & true method of a victim having to be silly enough & trusting. Like honestly in all your years gaming, when have you heard of a PRO player that’s famous, joining your lobby & asking you to sign into websites…..

[@p13px]

i about fell for this. anyway i can double check? it been few days ago

[@Swempa78]

love how 99% of your chat said it was a fake link for the sign in yet they prolly had not fukkin idea XD

[@M.One.XJ6]

I've seen these scammers and wasted their time for months, sent trade offers to anomaly and sparkles asking them to make a video about it. Same people same accounts been at it longer than cs2 has been out. I love fucking with them in discord

[@maratpirate6343]

you are mvp

[@iampower5547]

Now i learn that if u private profile i would assumed either u a cheater or just got scammed and doesnt want to get scammed again.

[@DudeWheresMyBase]

This exact scam happened to me in CSGO. They invited me to a faceit match, I joined the IP to the server and instantly got kicked saying I need a anti cheat. He sent me link to anti cheat software and I installed it, the second I ran the anti cheat program, I saw my mouse cursor moving everywhere, opening up internet tabs and my knife was traded away to another steam account within 15-30 seconds, it was fast.

[@DudeWheresMyBase]

Steam support actually helped me and got my knife back too

[@xVxEsports]

@@DudeWheresMyBaseYea they used to give the skins back. They don’t do it anymore because people were abusing it to duplicate skins

[@djafar699]

but how can go on a discord call when impersonating someone famous ?

[@Eggygarlic]

His chat is the types of people that were a girl in their moms stomach for the first 12 weeks

[@michalk1459]

I had a similar situation, but in Faceit.

[@donavonborden3837]

i got scammed in February lmao not touching the game again. inventory got rinsed and i dont even know how.

[@GambasFallacy]

Because you most likely threw

[@donavonborden3837]

@@GambasFallacy don't even play the game nice try

[@GambasFallacy]

@@donavonborden3837 are you mentally challenged?

[@Kozep]

How much did they take

[@mrdavidski]

yeah they tried to scam me with the same tactic

[@cristi4good]

bro there was a romanian there, xellow, and old teamate of iM

[@rackmyribs4879]

As your middle school teacher says the best protection is abstinence! yeah i know does not sound fun but the best scam protection : )

[@landonhekking7438]

This scam just happened to me just not the pro player it was just some guy that i qued with that gained my trust lost a ak case hardened and butterfly

[@annonymos.krikos.official]

In November, I got double scam and I lost four knives one glove and all my expensive skins 😊

[@itayhadad5623]

Well how does the scammers collect 2FA auth code ?

[@tucrepap]

how does bro have a StatTrak P250 Whiteout? 0:18

[@_fuushi]

Skin changer

[@tucrepap]

@@_fuushi are those bannable?

[@_fuushi]

@@tucrepap uhhh I dunno, I mean I’ve seen cases where people have been banned for using skin changers, so me personally I wouldn’t use them. But a quick note is that in general, most skin changers come in a pack with cheats, so that’s that

[@Woteeeee]

@@tucrepap yes they are, learned it the hard way. Got my vac ban way back in 2018 when there was huge skinchanger banwave

[@Aercryptic]

the reason you can see the skins in the lobby is because its an inventory changer and not a skin skin changer... You cant see them in game tho

[@koperszef]

i was on voice chat with this group of scammers, they asked me if i want to scam with them, ofc i said no but lol, they cant pretend even and also there was Niko from g2 :o

[@dubstygaming2649]

ultra cap about skinchangers. cs2 inventory changer does show up on lobby and not in game. if the scammer has public inv youll see them rocking bfk sapphire and have 0 items in inv. valve just made it harder for us to spot fake players with the 7 days invisible items bullhsit.

[@transenhippie3883]

i did opend the link so now he has my ip and my knows my browser but i did not login cuz i saw the fake pop do i have to change anything now or i am good ? i did not accept any cokkies

[@ArtyArtur]

if you use steam site and has automatic loghin. It will never ask you to put your user and password again.

[@konohagakurenosato]

Fofffff what a mix of laughting and feel so bad for this guy....... Scammers are rats... but I think its always a 50 / 50 cause you have to be a little bit donkey to think all of this is real

[@bobisbesthehe]

i've seen once guy on a casual match with m4a1-s full kato 14 titan holo dlore and many other skins, he had new account no info given, then after 2 days he got banned, so there ARE skin changers that are not client sided that work in-game not only in lobby ohne :)

[@sk1ttlesuwu]

You can see skinchangers skins in lobby!

[@luc6152]

It's not only fake pros who do this, yesterday I got a 4 man that invited me to discord and then proceeded as shown in the video

[@DareToScare98]

ngl almost fell for this when i was getting into csgo

[@DareToScare98]

iv been invited to all those fake accounts at 15k

[@vinny-hi8my]

Got fucking scammed twice love it to see that they getting revenge

[@Ormgryd]

5:36 "They want you to download faceit ac and then it's a RAT"... Well Faceit AC is a RAT, so you already have one, same with Vanguard, EAAC, and so on, Safe AC is VAC, Warden and the one Rockstar uses. I can't think of more, but there probably are some safe ones i've not said, but these are the 3 big ones.

[@giantjohr6904]

I scammed some of these type of scammers back when they tried it since I hate them they clicked fake steam link and it instantly downloaded virus into their pc so I took over their stuff of course I never do such things to normal people only those who deserve it to taste their own medicine back

[@igorasty5188]

Whats the steam background name? 4:00

[@3VERone]

Funfact: The Lobby is Client-Sided and you can display weapons you dont own via cheat software

[@deruniversalindikator]

I mean just look on the Medals and you see, that they didn't attend any Majors / Tournaments and they don't have the Medals of these....

[@antip0is0n]

How do they take ur skins with just the login?

[@cota0000]

I almost fell into this, but i really did login to the steam. But i used QR code thankfully. After that i realised my mistake and changed everypassword and removed every device and im good now

[@cota0000]

AFter i logged in, they tried to make me play in their hub but before that I had to give my skins to a friend because for some reason We needed to play without skins. I realised after that, they probably had my api key

[@pip2d07b]

Same here, but I dont know what is api scam at that moment, so I got scammed , lost around 1.4k usd😢

[@beamedbygravy8106]

u are correct cheats can lobby sync with the skin changer showing crazy skins to whoever else is in the lobby

[@maxibooi820]

as a rain fan, i thought "not rain :(".

[@terrydaman4992]

You can see skinchanger skins in lobby but not in a game.

[@mr.sniper616]

no way... that hunter guy wanted to sell me karambit doppler for 500dollars lol

[@AutisticWimpyKid]

Many people fall for it. Otherwise, those scanmers wouldn't be using that method.

[@jessedevries77]

i was in lobby with them aswell and they the skins in their inventory. they wanted to play with me on faceit and sent me a link.

[@rodrigobeja6749]

I feel for this and i lost 400 dollars, be carefull steam only wants to make money not help users. not spending 1 cent again in steam thats for sure

[@plakofgold]

Just think about it for a second. Why would a professional cs player want to que with some rando on the internet when most pros play on faceit or with their own team

[@AllWaysPlayingCOD]

lost my knife from face it like this :(

[@realflukilp]

Glad Im such a noob, that I dont even know the famous people, new level of safity

[@eugentomljenovic8105]

I was sOOOOo close to fall for this. I didn't suspect a thing. But while following the steps I was told something clicked in my head. I thought to myself (bro this is way too organized... something aint right.. fk that I am OUttt). He kept asking me whats the problem and where did I got stuck... I kept silent for a second and just left the discord server and blocked everyone. I think it was clear to them after I left that I am on to them.

[@pauste2459]

Hahaha that happened to me too.. despite the fact i clicked on that weird faceit link