Trade Bans have been used to punish scammers but that punishment has its drawbacks.

I thereby propose we implement Trade Deposits instead of trade bans.

Bascially, people with a history of scamming others will have to pay 250k gralats as a deposit in order to trade an item with someone.

For the next 7 days after the transaction, the item cannot be traded to anyone else and the trade deposit will be withheld. If no complaints of scam are filed by the other party within 7 days, the ex-scammer gets his/her trade deposit back. Otherwise, the ex-scammer loses the deposit, and the scammed item as well.

Of course, such complaints will have to be reviewed by a high staff and trade deposit should increase if the ex-scammer is found to be back to his/her old ways.

I believe when there's something at stake, ex-scammers will start to take trading seriously and ethically. I emphasize, trade deposits WILL BE RETURNED if there is no scam. THIS IS NOT TAXATION!