deceived the activation code from the game developers and sold it. This behavior is common in the gaming industry.
Recently, a foreign game question and answer website Gamediscoverco shared the latest observation of activation code fraud. In addition to classic connoisseur cheating and mail fraud, fake anchor fraud is quietly emerging.
The scams of the connoisseur refer to the reputation of the scammers abuse of Steam appreciative obtained the activation code from the developer.A similar incident occurred in "Crocodile Detective Brig" in 2022, and we have reported before.
In short, game developers can send the game activation code directly to the connoisseur through the Curator Connect function provided by Steam, every everyThe appreciation can get up to 5 activation codes.The threshold for registering becomes a very low threshold is very low. After obtaining the activation code of many moods, many appreciatives are hung on the trading platform to resold their profits.
The developers of Sky World Games have also encountered similar things. He found that he sold himself at a very low price in the activation code trading platform.The game, after purchasing the activation code to cross the cross -comparison, I found that this was the evaluation activation code sent to an appreciation not long ago.
Through further verification of the developer background, he found that the connoisseur did not activate the game, and gave a recommendation evaluation.Although the goal of getting praise has been achieved, the behavior of selling the activation code in private still makes him unhappy.
Email fraud means that the scammers disguise themselves into well-known KOL to send emails to developers.Many, always cheat a few.
A person who is engaged in domestic game distribution tells me that his mailbox can often receive emails that want to activate the activation code. There are even hundreds of popular games when they are released.It is the head or waist anchor of domestic video websites who wants to evaluate the game.
Most anchors will disclose their business mailbox address, so the issuer can verify the identity of the other party based on the mail address.This method is often omissions, such as the English letters I, L, Number 1 of the lowercase I, L, Number 1, which is difficult to distinguish. The scammers deliberately replace these characters and confuse the audiovisual.
There is also a derivative method for "pretending" behavior of domestic games. The scammers disguised themselves as foreign KOLs and sent English emails to developers.Due to cultural barriers, work verification has become more difficult.
The fake anchor fraud noticed by Gamediscoverco is mainly derived from several suspicious oil pipe accounts.Most of these accounts are the old names registered in 2011, and it did not begin to release videos until recent years.
The video playback volume is stable and maintained at about 10,000. The content is a common evaluation. There are many narrations of the audio.
There are also many doubts about the comment area. A large number of Chinese characters appear under English videos.Multiple videos have similar situations.The message is also "this is the best evaluation video this year", "You must have spent a lot of effort in the video" and so on. It has nothing to do with the game, and there is no praise and reply to further interaction.
In the analysis of Gamediscoverco, these accounts rely on buying amounts for data falsification.The true influence of the player.If they ask the developer to activate the activation code in a private message, and the developer is negligible to observe, it is likely to be confused.
In the face of constantly pushing out new fraud, developers have no better way except for a lot of time to identify.The seemingly simple "use the activation code in the right place" has always been a difficult goal.
