Following Chris's suggestion.

Well, how about the providing pm isn't from the person your trading?
It's quite old news, but some morons (inlcuding me) fall for the whole "PM this person, its me"-scam.. making the imposter scam with the person that actually pmed..

After re-reading what I just wrote.. quite hard to understand, so Imma try explain a lil' more:

Im talking to an imposter, asking him to PM me.
This imposter is talking to whoever he's acting to be -- lets call the non-imposter B.
The imposter tells B to send ME a PM.
I receive the PM, I belive that the imposter is actually B; I trade with him.. I get scammed.

I recently got scammed by this way, I made a scam-report -- but it got archived as I didnt ask for a more detailed PM (his email etc etc).
The person B pm'd me, told me that he didnt know who he was dealing with - that he got an IM on msn to pm me.. I just told him to be more careful next time, cause its partially his fault.. for not making sure who he's pming.

An hour later, same thing happends.. with the same person (Feds) -- a dude made a scam-report about Feds scamming him; and it was the same imposters "[email protected]" -- I pointed that out to the MOD that read my scam-report.. hopefully he read it :embar:

A few days after the scam-report, I saw another scam-report on Feds.. he pmed the person the imposter email "[email protected]" and scammed him. Meaning that Feds was the scamming person, he sent a PM from Feds and then acted as it was an imposter that scammed.

Now to my point; IF its a case like this ^ then I belive that the person who sent the PM should be partially responsible, if it wasn't for his/her PM -- no-one would've been scammed.
I mean.. whoever sending the PM must be 100% sure that he's sending the PM to whoever he's dealing with.

But.. this whole thing could only be implemented if the "no pm, no report"-suggestion gets thru

Edit: Feds is banned now; shouldn't be any problems mentioning the name of the scammer

 

This is an awesome addition to the rule. Chances of being scammed by imposter are very low now.