Earning money by opening cases: full review and disclosure. Making money by opening cases: full review and disclosure Is it possible to make money on cases?

While searching the Internet for unusual ways to make money, we came across making money from cases. What does it mean to open cases with money and is it possible to make money from it? At first glance, this seems tempting. The sites promise mountains of gold, but this is the first sign of a “scam”. Let's take a closer look and test the cases from personal experience.

In essence, cases are a casino, a game of chance. Officially no one calls them that, but the scheme speaks for itself. The sites offer you to buy cases with money and open them to win or lose. You might think that it all depends on luck, but it's not that simple. Casinos and easy money are a favorite area of ​​activity for scammers. Unfortunately or fortunately, 99% of projects offering a free lottery with real winnings are fakes.

How do scammers make money on sites that open cases with money?

We went to search engine and entered the request: “opening cases with money.” Based on the search results, they opened the first 4 pages and were surprised. They all look almost identical. Icons, color, interface - look at the screenshots and see for yourself. Moreover, all other positions in the search look exactly the same!

This raises great suspicions. Obviously, scammers don’t bother copying the same design and opening websites under a new domain name.

These sites convince us that they are the only real projects with big and frequent winnings. But “free cheese is only in a mousetrap.” We decided to try to open a free case, which can contain from 1 to 30 rubles. It can be opened once a day. To do this, you need to log in via VKontakte and repost the advertising post of this site on your wall. After this, it is supposedly possible to open cases for free.

And then a surprise awaits us!

At that moment we realized that this was a real scam and didn’t even try to open paid cases so as not to sponsor scammers. We do not advise you to use such resources. We recommend that you immediately forget about cases with money without investments.

Opening cases with money – only disadvantages and no advantages:

• It is almost impossible to find an honest service. Most often, sites just take your money. Services that pay out money do not allow you to win more than you invest.
• Free cases are a scam. Fraudsters lure you in with sweet promises, while they themselves rub their hands and giggle evilly while you invest in non-existent cases.

Exposing scammers - detailed instructions

Step 1. Copy the site name or URL and paste it into the search engine with the words “forum” or “reviews”. Take a close look at several resources. It's very common for sites to hire people to write fake comments, so analyze information from multiple sites.

Step 2: Check the age of the site. Follow the link sitespy.ru/vozrast-saita and copy the resource address. For example, we checked a site that was only 9 days old. Of course, this dramatically reduces the level of trust. At the same time, age is not an accurate indicator. There are resources that paid money for many months, but stopped. For a clearer picture, refer to Step 1.

Step 3: Check technical support site. Reputable resources always have a high-quality help desk. For example, ask for some payment system. If they refuse to provide you with data, you are dealing with scammers.

Go through all three steps before making a decision and contributing to the opening of the case.

Sites where there are cases with real money are a myth

At this stage, the question arises, are there really no sites that make making money from cases with money real?

The site team did not find such a service. We have not found a single site that is more than 12 months old. Moreover, it is almost impossible to find reviews of existing resources, which suggests that these are “fly-by-night” sites. There are rare reviews that do not look like honest ones at all.

Why are there so many projects if they are all deceiving? Because naive and inexperienced Internet users constantly invest money in them. Everyone wants to get millions by investing 10 rubles. Let's be honest with ourselves - this is impossible!

The method of earning money in practice is very simple + does not require a lot of time and your personal funds. The method is quite well known, but I would like to highlight certain subtleties.
I'll start from the beginning.
Anyone who has ever played CSGO knows about the in-game drop. In particular, about chests and skins for weapons. We will focus on chests (cases). There are a total of 14 types of dropped cases in the game. 5 of which are cases with stickers. We automatically discard them, because... at the moment (and throughout) they cost approximately $0.01-0.02 on the trading platform. Naturally, this doesn’t suit us, so our circle has narrowed to 9 dropable cases:

But that's not all! Let's return to prices for steam trading platform. We cross out chests that cost from $0.01-0.07 (prices at the time of writing). As a result we get:

Thus, out of 14 dropped chests, we have identified only 5 that can bring real profit!

1 - cs:go weapon case= starting from $0.92
2 - Operation Bravo Case= starting from $1.64
3 - eSports case= starting from $0.65
4 - Operation phoenix weapon case = starting from $0.40
5 - Huntsman weapon case= starting from $1.35
The prices speak for themselves; it is not difficult to find the most expensive cases and cheaper options. If I'm not mistaken, csgo is the only game on steam in which dropable chests have such a cost.
IMPORTANT!
In connection with many events, in particular in connection with events in steam"e and csgo, prices for various types of cases often jump from very low to quite high. For example, about a month ago Operation phoenix weapon case on the trading platform was consistently 1, $40, then within two days it jumped to about $2.30, and then the price sharply “slipped” to $0.40 and remains there to this day. Thus, the items being sold form a market that needs to be closely monitored. Having received the chests, you don’t need to immediately try to sell them quickly; it is much more profitable for yourself to wait for a certain period when the price is at its maximum and only then sell it. Patience and only patience!
Having sorted out the chests, you can move on to the system for obtaining them and, accordingly, earning money.
The method is legal, you don’t have to worry about getting banned or anything like that. Work from your main account!
There are two ways to get chests:
1) Play by yourself and get 2-3 chests per week (there is no guarantee that exactly one of those “five” treasured chests will drop!) (not recommended).
2) Take advantage of the magic of the Steam trading platform and the magic of exchange with newcomers!
There is no point in describing the first method fabulously, so let’s look at the second in more detail:
To implement, you need a small balance of cash in your Steam wallet, I think this is not a problem. For a successful start, you can have a dollar or a little less, every cent in this method is quite important! There are 2 main branches:
1) Buying the cheapest guns (trash skins) on the trading platform, the price of which = $0.03-0.06 per piece:

Having bought 2-4 guns, you can start actually exchanging these guns for chests. I myself have sufficient experience of exchanging in this way, so I know the intricacies. The question may immediately arise: with whom should I exchange? The answer is simple: we are looking for a person who has few hours of playing csgo (1h-60h) and has at least one chest in his inventory that interests us. How to find it? Very simple! We play a couple of matches in csgo, then in steam, in the “friends” tab, go to “recently played together” and look for a suitable copy there. You can also use the inventory scanner (on miped there is an article dedicated to the scanner, and how It seems to me that it is not difficult to find information on the Internet)
Having found a suitable candidate, add him as a friend and write to him about the exchange:

Then we go to the exchange menu and make a transaction. Voila, we exchanged our 1-2 trash skins for a case that costs several times more!
2) Method 2.
Among the users with whom we exchange, there are especially picky ones who will not fall for gray, shabby guns. Don't despair, we have a special "attack" option for this case!
Again, we go to the trading platform and look for the cheapest guns with the stattrak tag:

The price of such guns is $0.15-0.17. What's the advantage? Such skins immediately catch the eye, especially when they see the word StatTrak, so your client, who has heard at least a little about the rarity of a gun with stattrak, is 70% likely to exchange it with you!
Skins with “souvenir” tags work in the same way. Look for the cheapest one and, thanks to the elaborate design, successfully exchange!
That's it! Everything is simple and, as they say, tasteful! Having received the treasured chest, do not rush to sell, find out the situation on the market, and only then put it up for sale. The method works well, I tested it on myself and my friend. Thanks for your attention and good luck!

Anna Sudak

Bsadsensedinamick

# Online business

What are the chances of profit?

Most sites exist for several days and then are deleted law enforcement agencies or scammers. But even this time is enough to deceive a huge number of users.

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• The essence of the proposal
• Deception scheme
• How to expose a fraudster
• Sites where you can earn money by opening cases

In this article we will get acquainted with making money on cases. Is it really possible to make money from this? Or is this another deception of gullible applicants? Read the article to the end and find out the result.

The essence of the proposal

Just recently we learned that there is a way to make money by opening online cases with money without investments, and we became interested in it. Is it really that simple? We dug deeper and...

Making money by opening cases on the Internet is a banal casino. No, no one talks about this directly, but the fact remains a fact. You are offered to make an investment - buy a money case. You open it and either win or lose. But not everything depends on luck.

According to our observations, sites with cases can be divided into three types:

1. They let you win and withdraw money.
2. They let you win, but don’t pay out the money.
3. Scam.

Deception scheme

And this is how people are deceived in win-win cases. We found two schemes.

In the first case, scammers develop identical websites. Of course, some details change: domain names, resource names, background and button colors. Like here for example:

These are two different sites, but with a completely identical interface. Even the texts in each section are no different. In general, as soon as we saw them, we already doubted the positive result. Using these resources, we tried to figure out how to make money by opening cases for free. But we were unable to do this, since all invested funds were lost instantly.

And this is how it all happens. The user replenishes the account, receives a bonus, opens the case and loses. We opened six cases of different prices, and failure awaited us in each of them.

For example, we first chose the cheapest “Novichok” case for 20 rubles. After logging in, this amount was debited from our account. That is, in order to win, the amount dropped in the case must be higher than its value. If not, you are losing money. In all six cases of different prices, we were not able to earn a penny. Although the sites shout that this is a completely win-win way of earning money. LIE! 1000 personal and 1000 bonus rubles were lost.

The essence of deception. The software on the site is initially configured so as not to give people the opportunity to win. The same tricks are used in online casinos.

It will not be possible to open cases and earn stable money because:

• Finding an honest resource turned out to be very difficult; 90% of sites are fake, created to deceive.
• Even if you managed to find a site that pays out money, it is not a fact that it will allow you to win more than you invest.
• Free cases are pure scam. Under the pretext of winning, scammers will lure money from you in every way.

In the second case, scammers create special courses, loot buttons, case cracks (and other nonsense) and sell it wherever they can, promising you mountains of gold. Remember, if you are promised 10, 20, 50 thousand rubles per day with a minimum investment - in 99.9% of cases this is a scam! And this project was no exception. Meet:

It’s a great pity that I couldn’t experience such a sensational project in person, but what they write about it online made me laugh, upset and made me think. But the matter is already covered in dust, so I’ll say briefly that the project scammed tens of thousands of people worth more than... one million dollars.

Unfortunately, we were not able to catch an active fraudulent site that resells the services of scammers, since the second type of deception is often superimposed on the first and one scammer makes money on the ideas and developments of another scammer. Here it’s either by agreement (most often), or at your own peril and risk. In fact, the lifespan of fraudulent resources is short, up to three days. But they appear all the time. They are simply cloned for greater profit, as in this case:

Everything is simple here, you are asked to go to the site, register, deposit money into your account and pay for cases. Your money immediately goes into the hands of the scammer, and whether you win or lose is completely unimportant. You won't see your money anymore. What is the point? There is a person - the owner of a site with cases. By the way, most often it is done “on the knee”.

These are not all the schemes used by scammers. Every day they become more subtle, although their essence does not change. Therefore, be vigilant and always check projects that require even the most minimal investment.

One of the most common features are projects to expose scammers, which are carried out by the scammers themselves. The point is that you pay to activate the platform, they allegedly broadcast fraudulent resources to you, you transfer them to the blacklist and take money from the scammers.

So, this doesn’t happen. There are no resources that identify unscrupulous sites, and even more so, no one can withdraw money from someone else’s site. If, while looking for money on cases, you come across an invitation to take control of scammers in this niche, ignore it.

And the invitation could be, for example, like this:

At the time of writing, the resource was located at this address: http://stopfra.ru/balance.html. If, after clicking on the link, you do not find it, then the scammer most likely changed the domain.

How to expose a scammer

It's short here.

It is better to check the resource using three methods at once in order to fully put together the picture and make a choice - to invest or not to invest your money.

Sites where you can earn money by opening cases

Let's look at a list of sites with cases for making money that offer free (conditionally paid) money, but they don't pay the fee.

• Playscash;
• Luxecash;
• Goldspin;
• Listcash;
• Visichcash.

If you look closely at these sites, it seems that these are clones made by one person or one team. It's funny that even the errors in the texts of all resources are the same. But that's not the point. The main thing is that the so-called support service did not respond to a single request, so the only conclusion that comes to mind is a scam.

But even in this business there are exceptions. Namely:

• Coinscube. The site is young. The first thing that caught my eye was the different design. It's really different from everyone else we've encountered. The site is only a little over 3 months old, but we couldn’t find anything negative about it. Of course, it is impossible to say that he is 100% honest. But we won’t say that he’s deceiving either. The site pays. Well, whether you win or lose depends on luck and the conscience of the administration.
• Vscash. The site pays. We personally didn’t manage to win anything on it, but judging by the reviews from the forums, people for the most part have no complaints about the resource.
• Vk-money. The main task of the service is the promotion of projects. Here, entrepreneurs leave tasks and pay money to those who complete them. As a bonus, all active project participants are invited to try their luck and open (buy) a case. If you're lucky, you'll get more money. If you're unlucky, you'll say goodbye to the ones you already have.

Bottom line. If you are still trying to figure out how to make money from money cases, we strongly recommend abandoning this idea. Why?

I agree that it’s certainly not worth setting any specific goals, such as, for example, teaching everyone and everything how to properly manage the same boxes and cases and earn something from it. This article will be purely advisory in nature with the author's point of view on some issues.

Considering that many of the theses that our dear reader will encounter in the text will look like an advertisement for another financial pyramid, I hasten to immediately dispel doubts - you will not need any huge cash injections or SMS. All you need to have on hand is a Steam account with installed game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and free time.

Introduction

When developing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve went along the same lines, including the ability to change appearance weapons. Based on the already successfully working schemes in TF2 and Dota 2, a system of in-game items was introduced into CS:GO: skins for weapons (the more common name is the changed appearance of weapons), boxes and keys that open them. In addition to the already familiar division of items by rarity level, the concept of skin quality was also introduced, which affects their appearance in the game.

Currently in CS:GO there are the following types of in-game items:

• weapon skins;
• boxes;
• capsules with stickers;
• keys;
• musical sets;
• plates for renaming weapons (name tags).

In fact, the gradation of objects is quite simple to understand. Let's go over the typology: weapon skins are items that change the appearance of a weapon without changing its characteristics, boxes from which drop weapon skins and keys that are needed to open boxes. Separately, in the type of skins for weapons, it is worth highlighting two subtypes: weapons with a stat track (a special kill counter located on the model), as well as knives (for knives, not only the skin changes, but also the model itself, as well as its animation, making them one of the most expensive gaming items).

I’ll try to provide a simplified description of the drop system (the system for receiving in-game items): players weekly receive two or three boxes and two weapon skins, which drop out (go to) them after completing matches on Valve’s official servers. A little later, the developers expanded the possibilities in which players can receive another case or weapon by introducing so-called “operations”, which are, in fact, an analogue of any special event in MMO games, with the only difference that to complete special tasks, the “operation” must be purchased for money.

CS:GO continued the series of games with a successfully implemented system of game items.

Seeing the absolute success of the game item system, as well as calculating income, Valve launched a series of major CS:GO championships (in many materials they are called “majors”), the prize fund of which is largely financed precisely by microtransactions from operations with boxes, keys and so on. The developers were able to significantly increase interest in watching broadcasts, as well as the number of people watching matches through game client, adding a random drop system for rare gift boxes to all those watching the game.

One of the important components of the modern economy in CS:GO and one of the methods for increasing your in-game finances (for now we are only talking about them) is betting. Of course, betting has taken interest in the competitive scene and in tournaments and broadcasts in general to a new level. A huge number of analysts, predictors and simply prophets have appeared out of nowhere, offering their services to help make money on bets. A separate article can be devoted to this area, and I will not delve into the question of whether bets spoil the CS:GO scene or not.

Taking all this into account, the following options for obtaining in-game items in CS:GO are currently possible:

• loss of game items while playing on official servers (both boxes and skins for weapons);
• game items falling out while watching official broadcasts;
• receiving game items when winning bets (for this you need to bet existing game items);
• purchasing game items on the Steam Market;
• receiving game items when exchanging with other users (including receiving gifts);

Why does this work?

Having understood the principles of operation of the economic scheme, let us briefly touch on those things due to which it lives and prospers. After all, plunging into the problem of obtaining benefits, you need to know what makes it work this model on the Steam platform.

Again, using simplifications, it goes something like this: the developers are launching a specific series of boxes that contain skins for weapons. These skins were created by specific authors and approved by Valve. The interest of artists and 3D animators is that they will receive a percentage of the sales of these items in the game, in fact, just like the developers. As a result, we understand why this scheme works great on back side: Valve receives huge sums of money through interest from operations, and artists, pursuing the same goal, try to create the most interesting models of weapons and knives as possible.

For many not associated with CS:GO or Counter-Strike in general, the question is different - why is simply changing the appearance of a weapon so popular? Why is customization of game elements not boring, but, on the contrary, increasing interest in itself, as can be judged by the introduction of paid music sets into the game. It's very simple: back in the days earlier versions CS there were entire communities of modders who created, thanks to open access to the game files, a huge amount of content distributed throughout the Internet.

Weapon models in CS 1.6 are still popular.

Many must remember sites filled with models for CS, maps, and even entire modifications (even changing the background image and sprite graphics). The CS community was initially accustomed to the fact that boring weapon models can be changed, thereby diversifying the usual order of things. The most interesting thing is that the changes made by the files remained noticeable to a greater extent only on the client side, and only with rare exceptions on the server side. This involved automatic pumping and required a lot of power, and simply not everyone liked it. In the case of CS:GO, weapon skin changes are displayed for all players, giving individuality to its owner.

From all this it is not difficult to conclude that the desire to stand out in some way was formed in the infancy of the CS community, ensuring the success of the implementation of the in-game item system in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

How to make money on CS:GO boxes and is it possible to get rich?

Now we have moved on to the most interesting part of the article, something that interests many people - how to make money using game items in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive? I will try to give the most accurate answer and offer some advice gained from personal experience.

First of all, I'll talk about the concept. Developers produce boxes in the game in a limited edition, the specific numbers of this edition may vary, but the essence is the same - sooner or later (usually late) a specific series of boxes stops falling out to players. From the moment the new series begins to drop, the boxes are constantly becoming cheaper: the first boxes can even cost about a thousand rubles, and after a few weeks their price drops to pennies.

The price of boxes is determined by their quantity, as well as their contents - the more boxes, the cheaper they cost. Accordingly, as soon as boxes stop falling out, the price inevitably begins to rise. The most notable example is one of the first series of cases: the Operation Bravo Case and the CS:GO Weapon Case now cost an average of 200 rubles, but a year or two ago their price was around six rubles or less (down to just over one ruble ). Now the situation at that time, in order to demonstrate clearly, is difficult to track - for the eSports 2013 cases, which by the end of 2013 cost 30 kopecks, the initial story completely disappeared from the Marketplace...

Given these dynamics, as well as simple rules market, which, in essence, is trading platform Steam, users can easily earn money by simply tracking the price dynamics of cases. Why can’t you do the same with weapon skins: they don’t change in price so quickly, and you can buy several thousand knives or awp. Unlike them, everything is simple with boxes - as soon as the price becomes minimal, you begin to slowly buy boxes: for example, the Operation Vanguard box recently cost 69 kopecks, for 690 rubles, which you can get on Steam by selling unnecessary skins ( “Prostokvashino method” - in order to buy something unnecessary, you need to sell something unnecessary), you will receive one thousand boxes.

Now, at the time of writing, boxes in this series have increased to 2.07 rubles, and through simple calculations, you could in this case become the owner of a capital estimated at 2,070 rubles. Since the operations have already ended, the price of these cases will only increase (not taking into account the drop due to a wave of buying or selling), and after a year or two it can rise to 200 rubles, as was the case with the “Bravo” cases . It will be impossible to calculate your income next year with absolute certainty, but it is absolutely certain that it will be there.

The only frightening point in this is that playing on the prices of game items is, in fact, the standard actions of traders, especially those who play for long-term money (only the most patient will receive the greatest income). The advantage is that it exists real opportunity receive hundreds of thousands of rubles without special problems and serious financial investments. I myself have already managed to get about 40 thousand rubles in this simple way, some of which I spent on games on Steam, some of which I transferred into real money, and also used to purchase other boxes.

The problems with this method of earning money are also known:

• limited Steam inventory (it didn’t exist before, now you will need several accounts to store thousands of cases);
• time limit on the sale of items (previously it was also absent, now it can become a problem for novice traders);
• long waiting period for income (up to one year or more);
• problems with withdrawing money on Steam to real money.

Having outlined the issues that could be covered in a separate article, let me give you some practical advice. The first point: in order to get start-up capital, which will subsequently be used in investments, you can sell other items from the Steam inventory - cards, badges, backgrounds for other games - anything that brings in money. You shouldn’t accumulate unnecessary junk, since you’ve decided to try to make money on the supposed GTA VI, Mortal Kombat XI or something more significant.

You don’t need serious traders’ equipment to analyze the market in CS:GO.

Second: the fastest income can be obtained during major championships. The scheme in this case is as follows: Valve release sets of stickers that are on sale limited time– only while the tournament is going on. On the last day of the championship, developers usually make a 75% discount on these stickers - this is the best time to buy them up as much as possible. After a week, the stickers will cost twice as much and will rise in price at an even faster rate than the cases.

Hot on the heels:

In a recent patch, Valve launched a new series of boxes in the game - Chroma case 2. Now, before the price drops to pennies, it’s time to sit on idle servers every week, or just play with the hope of a drop in order to get the coveted box and immediately sell. The first owners of the boxes raised about 1,000 rubles by putting them up for sale. The introduction of a new series of boxes is an excellent time to raise funds for start-up capital, and does not require financial investments.

That's all for now. I am ready to answer all your questions in the next article and, if possible, in the comments. I hope those who want to earn a little extra money this way will succeed, good luck!

Methods of making money on stickers (capsules with autographs), cases and passes for operations are as old as mammoth guano. This article will be useful for those who have just begun to be interested in the topic of making money on cs go and those who are in the “tank”.

What is the difference between selling stickers and cases, passes for operations?

The main difference is that stickers (capsules with autographs) tend to become very expensive over time, because... After the end of the event at which stickers were sold, they can no longer be purchased, only by hand. This is the reason for the increase in the cost of stickers.

But cases, on the contrary, have an exorbitant cost on the day the new operation starts because... these cases contain completely new skins that no one else has yet, and over time their number increases greatly and new cases greatly depreciate in value.

So, background information You’ve read it, now let’s move on to the methods of making money on stickers and cases in cs go.

How to make money on stickers in cs go

Take for example the ESL One Katowice 2015 event, where you could buy a capsule with stickers for $2.23-$3 (screenshot of the capsule below)

Then the dollar seemed to cost ~35 rubles. those. one capsule cost ~110 rubles. Now let's say we sold a skin for 550 rubles. and bought 5 capsules on March 26th. Time has passed and what do we see (screenshot below)

Under New Year our capsules began to cost more than $25 each. Taking into account the dollar exchange rate of ~60 rubles. this is 25*5=125$*60r. = 7500r. in other words, we sell our capsules, shake off a layer of dust and cobwebs from them and earn 7,000 rubles!

For me, this is a very good income from an investment of 500 rubles.

How to make money on cases and skipped operations in cs go

Here time, on the contrary, plays against us. As soon as a new operation comes out, our task is to buy a pass as quickly as possible and start playing cs go on the new operation maps. The main task is to knock out a new case that falls only to those who have a pass for the operation. Now some numbers.

A pass for Operation Breakthrough cost $6, and the price of a new case for the first 8 hours was around $12. At the end of the first week of the new operation, the price of the case reached $2-3.

The bottom line is, we are waiting for the start of a new operation. We immediately buy a pass and complete the missions of the operation. We receive skins and new cases, the first case will drop out to you from 1 to 8 hours of play, i.e. will immediately pay for your pass and add $2-4 to your pocket. Then you just play and earn money from each new case.

That's all.

I wish you a successful skating rink and good earnings!