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