Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers

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• elgordino@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably for the best. I spoke to a cashier at a local game store once, she was explaining how terrible it was to see so many people coming in who were obviously being scammed but wouldn’t listen to the advice from the cashier. They preferred it when they didn’t have any to sell.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah when I worked at Apple I got so sick of trying to explain to people that the American IRS are not going to sue them for $100,000 if they don’t give them some Apple gift cards.

    I also at the Apple gift cards were especially funny because they were for such low denominations

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn! How am i going to pay off the FBI for my pirated anime now?

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But isn't it literally less effort for someone to buy a digital gift card and hand over the card details to a scammer? Or am I missing something?

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just imagining the scammers losing their minds trying to get my parents to install steam so they can buy gift cards.

    If my mother is not receiving a constant stream of instruction she’ll get bored and start clicking on random buttons. There’s a reason that all my text messages for her are full of random emojis and gifts that she’s accidentally added

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Digital makes it much easier for steam to track. They can more easily identify steam accounts and emails that are part of scam networks. They have options like not allowing sales to be delivered to scammer@scam.com, or reverting transactions they believe are scams within 24 hours.

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  • GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think you need to be signed on steam to buy them online? That would make it much easier to track and stop scammers

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    • Koenig2005@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I just saw a video where it was mentioned that you can also buy the digital gift cards with a guest-checkout.

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• chgxvjh@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How are minors going to buy games then?

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  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If minors can’t buy games anymore then I guess we don’t need any age verification for purchases ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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• black0ut@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So now there’s no way to buy Steam credit without a card?

  It’s cool trying to stop scammers, but I feel like this move could hurt privacy.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are digital payment methods that don’t require a card.

    I remember when I was a child there was “paysafe”. Where you paid to a physical machine and get a code to spend online. I imagine it still exists.

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