Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers

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GamingBot@lemmy.zip · 4 days ago

Valve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers

ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 4 days 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.