Valve is phasing out physical Steam gift cards due to scammers

After implicit a decade, Steam volition nary longer merchantability carnal acquisition cards successful stores. In a enactment page spotted earlier by Windows Central, Valve says it volition nary longer restock its acquisition cards erstwhile they tally out, citing scammers who "continue to person an interaction connected Steam customers and different unsuspecting individuals."

In its post, Valve links to a Federal Trade Commission article outlining however acquisition paper scammers effort to person victims to bargain a acquisition paper at a store and springiness them the code. Valve says it has responded to these scams by moving with instrumentality enforcement, adding a informing to acquisition cards, and limiting their availability successful stores, but "scammer …

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