The scam they’re most famous for is known as cash flipping. Out of all the payment and wallet apps, Cash App seems to have an inordinate number of scammers on its platform. Wouldn't be nice on any possible unsuspecting user that may purchase them before only to get restrictions after.To be blunt, Cash App has a scam problem. The sooner she arranges, whatever way works, the transaction the better. If scammer sold them the purchasers would just get a message saying invalid code or already redeemed or something similar and incur no permanent Steam restrictions.

If the scammer used them they'd then have account restrictions until it's remedied, which won't be, so permanent. Shouldn't be hard to have the credit card company do this or a chargeback. Rather shocked it took 8 post before someone mentioned this. It might make it so the card can't be used anymore, but it sounds like that's already not an issue. We usually tell people not to reverse charges as Valve will seriously clamp down on accounts which have charges reversed, but it sounds like her account hasn't redeemed the codes anyway. Any account that *used* the codes will be locked, but odds are they used them on a shell account to buy stuff off the market and then trade it. Steam will then invalidate the codes because they are no longer paid for. The retailer will turn around and tell Steam. Originally posted by Teksura:If she used a credit card, have you thought about contacting the credit card company and blocking the charges there? It's really not a mammoth task technically for steam to provide that, to at least slow the abuse If steam had a page where you could enter the gift codes and maybe provide evidence of purchase image / photo of the card, they could at least suspend the codes before use, until the case was verified.

I know there are some very sophisticated criminals out there with IT knowledge (I work in IT industry dealing with this stuff) but this scumbag was very lacking - if my partner had opened the email on her laptop rather than her phone, she'd have seen the email address rather than just display name, and it was something like = no attempt to disguise or use a similar looking email prefix If they cancel the codes, and people lose out, then it will also send a message to people to NOT buy from dodgy people.

My bigger issue is, that if steam can identify who has used the codes, and ideally cancel, or at least find out where the codes were bought, then they may be able to trace it back to (some of) the offender(s), and at least reduce some of the theft and send a signal out to the criminal community who are doing this.

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