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Steam Scams (The stakeholders (Scammer (Dis: Get caught by authorities…
Steam Scams
The stakeholders
Person getting scammed
Dis: Lose account or in game items
Scammer
Adv:Get items for free
Dis: Get caught by authorities
Legal action e.g jail time
Steam
Dis: Complaints, bad reputation, reimbursement
Online banking sites
Dis: People want their money back-Bank has to reimburse them
Online steam gambling sites
Dis: Bad reputation
Feasible solutions
Ban scammers account
Adv: They lose their account
Dis: They can easily make another account
Return stolen items
Adv: People get their items back
Dis: Need a lot of evidence to claim you have been scammed
Inform the public on how they can get scammed
Adv: You don't fall into the trap of getting scammed
Dis: You have to use your time to find out how people commonly scam
Add restrictions on the ways people commonly use to scam
Adv: People don't get scammed from the commonly used strategies
Dis: Steam has to update their policies.
Chosen solutions
Ban scammers account
It wastes the scammers time and they lose the items in the process
Inform the public on how they can get scammed
It makes it harder for the scammers to scam people
Add restriction on the ways people commonly use to scam
Scammers have to consistently come up with new ideas to scam people and cannot just copy another persons idea
Rules around steam scams
It is non ethical to trick people into an unfair trade or loss of money
Steam policies state that if you try to scam someone a loss of account will incur.
Actions that need to be taken
Steam needs to update their policies
People need to understand that their is a high chance of getting scammed and therefore need to do their reasearch
Person using their Pc
People are using it to scam and get scammed by other people
Rejected solutions
Return stolen items
Because people can take advantage of this and end up scamming Steam into giving them free items