• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    I always assumed key sites were using stolen credit card numbers and acted like Karma was watching (as in, I don’t want my credit card stolen, so I won’t benefit from those of others).

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      9 days ago

      Indie game devs are bombarded with free game requests.

      I read about one indie dev who woke up to a dozen emails a day asking for a game key to “twitch stream” their game.

      It becomes extremely exhausting to verify every single one, and so many just hand it off and hope that one emailer really is who they say they are and they suddenly get a shitton of sales.

      • MolochHorridus@piefed.social
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        9 days ago

        Crazy thing, but my credit card info was recently stolen and after closing it, making compensation claims for my bank and filing a offence report to the police I contacted the three different online store the card was used with.

        The only one that responded was a key seller and they even refunded me the money.

        • vaionko@sopuli.xyz
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          9 days ago

          Maybe they’re workinh in such a grey area that they want to avoid all possible legal trouble?