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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 10 points 4 months 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 gifs that she's accidentally added

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    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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