People of the TF2/CS:GO community, have you ever come across a raffle group and thought maybe you'd win something after donating some metal, but then it would later turn out the group was a ruse and then they spam the group announcements with "LEAVE THIS GROUP AND JOIN NEW ONES"? Well this is what it's about, and this has been done multiple times!
L&Bs Highend Raffles just so happened to be the latest in the series of groups that did that sort of pattern. They've been known to branch out to other unknown raffle groups as well (not sure if their partners were being fooled or if they were in this all along), and the moderators on L&B seem to be in this jape too from what I could tell I mean who in the right mind spams 100+ announcements telling the same thing?!
Here are two SteamRep reports connected to the matter, both detailing encounters with the owner(s) of such raffle groups:
http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561198301180417-tf2-team-fortress-2-items.136706/
http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/report-76561198144346135-tf2-team-fortress-2-items.135996/
You may want to leave certain raffle groups that you don't know well about, because one day they might start spamming announcement posts again with all caps, and you'll realize joining them was a bad idea. And most definitely don't pay any of them if you know something's off. There are good raffle groups which I'm not allowed to name right now, and a lot of those that do mass spycrabbing on servers are pretty fair and trustworthy. So you might want to do a little background checking with the owners and such, you might catch another El Barto.
Thanks for your time, and I hope this madness ends eventually.
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