How to Avoid Steam Gift Card Scam

More and more scams are being perpetrated every day, but we can't always prevent fraud before it occurs. In addition to avoiding being scammed ourselves, we can also help protect others from being scammed by learning more about scam schemes. Our focus today is on a scam scheme called the Steam card scam, which is a very popular scam among the world.

What Is a Steam Card Scam

Customers are increasingly being called by hackers and forced to buy Steam gift cards in order to pay off debts, post bail, pay taxes. Hackers often pretend to be government officials, in order to force fraud victims to comply with their demands. So if you don't make a distinction carefully, you will get involved in their traps, that's exactly what the hackers want.

How Does Steam Gift Card Scam Work

It is not possible to purchase Steam Wallet Gift Cards online. After the wallet codes are purchased and activated by the merchant, the attackers instruct their victims to remove the protective cover and dictate the code over the phone.

 How to Get Avoid of Gift Card Scams

Make sure you know you can only use your gift cards on Steam to avoid falling victim to scammers. A game item, video game, equipment, or software is the only thing you can purchase with the card. If you are asked to use such gift cards to pay for anything else, you have fallen victim to a card scam on Steam. Be cautious about sharing your Steam Gift Card Code.

Finally, if you find that you’re got fraud, you can directly contact the Steam  Consumer Service Center for help.