Steam Gift Card scam?
"tim..." wrote in message
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On 29/05/2021 08:24, Tim+ wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 28/05/2021 17:23, Tim+ wrote:
Davey wrote:
A friend has asked me to buy £00 worth 0f Steam gift cards as a
present
for her niece, and asks that I scratch off the backs to reveal PIN
numbers, and then send a photo of them to her. This sounds weird to
me,
is it some kind of scam?
Its a scam, 100%. Been covered on several radio programs.
Tim
Given the information presented so far - that is not at all clear. Yes
it could well be, but it could also be legit depending on the
circumstance.
If the friend had asked face to face I doubt the OP would have posted
here. The requirement to send photos of the numbers rather than
posting to
a known address is also a huge red flag.
Yes, remotely it could be legitimate but given that this is a well
recognised scam doing the rounds at the moment leads me to strongly
suspect
that this *isnt* genuine.
+1
If it was legit then a normal person would ask for a bank transfer of
£300 to a known bank account and not use "scratch cards".
Plenty dont. A mate of mine repays me cash instead of using
an instant bank transfer even tho I have told him about the
better way more than once now.
until we recently changed the system, bank transfers ran the risk of you
accidentally transferring the money to the wrong account number and having
a mare are getting it back
Ours allows the transfer to the mobile number or
email address so its not hard to avoid that risk.
handing over folding money has no such risk
But has other real downsides. Mate of mine who I have
done lots of electronic transactions for because he was
too young to have his own bank account or ebay account
and whose parents dont have a clue about anything
other than making a phone call on a mobile phone,
decided that he wanted an iphone x while he was still
in school, about to go to the capital city to stay with
the relos for the school holidays and unsurprisingly
wanted to be able to use the new phone there.
He had the cash, in $100 notes but they are useless
when buying an iphone from the apple store. So he
showed up at my place, I bought it from the store
and he handed me the cash. Worked fine.
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