Valve updated a help article recently, noting that they will no longer be supplying physical Steam gift cards due to scammers.
  • black0ut@pawb.socialEnglish
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    17 days 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.

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days 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.

  • Triumph@fedia.io
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    17 days 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?

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      17 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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      17 days 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