Two random indie games rebranded themselves into Helldivers II on Steam and even renamed developers and publishers to make it look legit. There was no protection from such fraud but Valve is not giving money for up to three months and this idea will only lead those developers to their permanent ban. Not sure what they were hoping for.

#Scam #Fraud #Steam

Imagine you are Asus — the famous computer hardware company... and your new policy is to scam people during service repairs. Asus now breaks things during "repair" and asks for insane payments from customers (sometimes higher than the price of the initial device)

But what if a blogger will find it out and will become a secret customer?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMrssIrKcY #Hardware #Asus #Scam

Indie clicker Banana got out of hand: you can click over and over and get a random 🍌 as the reward. Some are expensive and can be sold on Steam for up to $1300.

Which ended up with 400000 bots trying to earn some easy $$$.

#Business #Scam #Steam #Valve

Imagine that AI not just makes fake Elon selling crypto, but also makes fake stores with fake items:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsM7nqvDNJI #AI #NeuralNetworks #Scam #Internet

Hold up...

#meme@GameDEV
#Scam@GameDEV

Oh no, companies that sponsor big YouTube channels are shady... again!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3JT6q3AxA
#Scam@GameDEV
#Security@GameDEV

Since "Rate my team in Counter Strike" bots are so common now on Steam, Valve is using a nasty trick — their messages with phishing links are not being delivered.

For bots it looks like it works. But users only see the safe text. So, people who used to trick those bots are mad that now they don't get their scam links. Found this in the profile of a scammer today and giggled.

#Steam@GameDEV
#Valve@GameDEV
#Hackers@GameDEV
#Scam@GameDEV

Humble Bundle allowed a sale from literally one AI bro with shady company founded in 2022 and has 3000 courses with zero workers. Even his website is vibe-coded and falling apart.

Be careful and don't buy it!
Find better alternatives!

Staring at an empty room will apparently give you more experience in game development than his courses.

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#Scam@GameDEV

After PayPal owned "Honey" scam firm was exposed a year ago, they are constantly trying to whitewash their public image. This time they failed to stop the production of a new investigation video by MegaLag and simply took it down on Patreon.

#Scam@GameDEV
#PayPal@GameDEV