Keys+Buds being used to launder money?

[ShinobiSli]

Found this today. It's a long read, but really interesting.

http://forums.steamrep.com/threads/...btful-origin-injecting-into-the-market.14096/

 

[Wize]

Wow, Thanks for the info. I'm sure this activity will be picking up around Christmas.

 

[noblenote]

Russians. Aint gett'in my buds.

 

[Mr. Monday]

That was a fascinating read.

 

[Varil]

I don't understand... @.@

 

[Goz]

Well that was interesting.

 

[Sephiroth]

I don't understand... @.@

They buy keys with stolen credit cards, trade the keys for buds, sell the buds for money, profit without spending a cent of their own money.

 

[Hollowsoul]

Well I suppose it is a good thing that Im broke and that doesnt effect me in anyway Lol!

 

[VP :3]

Scandalous!

 

[JTM]

They buy keys with stolen credit cards, trade the keys for buds, sell the buds for money, profit without spending a cent of their own money.

see, now why couldnt the article just SAY that? i had to read that whole thing then come back here to read your comment to understand.

jesus.

 

[Goz]

see, now why couldnt the article just SAY that? i had to read that whole thing then come back here to read your comment to understand.

jesus.

There was a tl;dr at the bottom of the post.

Scandalous!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMkMWAiRnfE[/ame]

 

[Mr. Monday]

Goz, you just gained like 10,000 awesome points. I love that show.

 

[JTM]

There was a tl;dr at the bottom of the post.

and i read the whole thing. my point was that the tl;dr summary made no sense.

 

[jhnsn]

This actually bothers me a great deal. I recently saved up a bunch of keys to buy buds, and was really shocked that not only had the price of buds gone up on the spreadsheet, but everyone on the out post was asking for a few more than that, with a straight up no to any talk of haggling. The lowest price I could find was 27 keys, and that is ridiculous. If this article is true, which it seems to be, the reason I had to pay so much for buds was because someone out there wanted to use TF2 to launder money. That is wrong on so many levels.

 

[Shiznoe]

Oh no, silly people and their silly earbuds.

 

[Ludicrous]

Lots of people have been doing this or similar things for a while. You guys don't actually buy your keys from valve for retail do you? you can get keys much cheaper if you are gonna buy with paypal. And the exact same thing is happening then.