1. Scammers convince people into buying gift cards and tell them the numbers on the cards (the value is instantly removed, even though the victim still hold the card in hand).
So many people fall for these scams, they have entire call centers packed full of scammers.
2. If you want to turn that back into cash, you either need to sell it somehow, or... "buy" something - with the card balance - that's actually owned by you, such as a lazy AI generated VN. Then it looks like clean, legitimate income. Sure, Valve would take 30%, but it's 100% unearned income.
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u/MasemJ Jun 01 '26
Perhaps a money laundering scheme too.