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Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront managed by Valve. It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005. Steam offers various features, like game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat ...
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company headquartered in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2005 by Aleksandr Agapitov in Perm ( Russia ), and is incorporated with subsidiaries globally. [ 4][ 5] Xsolla’s products include digital tools which help with in-game payments and enable alternative payment systems to be ...
Pigeon drop. The pigeon drop or Spanish handkerchief or Chilean handkerchief is a confidence trick in which a mark, or "pigeon", is persuaded to give up a sum of money in order to secure the rights to a larger sum of money, or more valuable object. [ 2][ 3][ 4][page needed] One of the con artists will typically claim to have found the money or ...
Peer-to-peer payment app scams. Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps like Paypal, Venmo and Zelle allow users to buy and sell products and services without exchanging credit card or bank account ...
Carding (fraud) Carding refers not only to payment card based fraud, but also to a range of related activities and services. Carding is a term of the trafficking and unauthorized use of credit cards. [ 1] The stolen credit cards or credit card numbers are then used to buy prepaid gift cards to cover up the tracks. [ 2]
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WebMoney is an online payment settlement system established in Russia in 1998. [ 1][ 5] It is one of the largest electronic payments processors in Russia by number of users, [ 6][ 7] with the company reporting 45 million registered accounts and 300,000 active weekly users in early 2020, [ 8] and 100,000 stores accepting payments via the system.
Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".