Warning! OffGamers Gift Card Scams: Protect Yourself from Fake Websites & Impersonators

Created by James Wong, Modified on Fri, 16 Aug at 2:45 PM by James Wong

We’ve came across another scam site that wants to steal your digital Gift Cards and we would like to remind every shoppers again to be wary of such sites. This syndicates usually uses the same modus operandi to commit their scams. They will first ask you to purchase a digital codes from other websites and then they will request you to e-mail them the codes or input the serials through a submission form. By doing so, you are exposing the digital codes to them and losing the digital codes in the process.


Do not fall prey to such malicious websites. If you have any doubts about any websites that requires you to purchase any codes from us in exchange for physical products, services or digital goods, please do not hesitate to contact our live support for assistance.


scam alert

We have received reports that scammers are pretending to be OffGamers staff members.

In this scam, they will claim to be staff from OffGamers.com and offers leveling services for a fee. These scammers will request their victims to purchase digital gift cards from OffGamers.com and to provide the codes to them as payment. Once the codes are revealed to these heinous individuals, they will attempt to extort even more codes from their victims without providing any services in return.

Remember, if anyone claims to be from OffGamers.com and offers exchanges for physical items, digital goods, boosting/leveling services, virtual currency and other form of services, we’re not associated with them.


Don’t lose hundreds or thousands of dollars when you can get our live support for free. If this happens to you over Skype, you are being targeted for fraud and should report it to us immediately at [email protected] or submit a ticket here.


paxful scam site

Our customers have reported and fallen victim to this scam site – https://paxful.com/. This site accepts OffGamers Gift Card as payment and claims they will provide digital currencies in return.

We would like to remind everyone again to avoid such nefarious scam sites and don’t fall victim to them.


Any websites that claims to offer gift cards, physical items or even virtual currency exchanges are known scam sites and we are not affiliated or associated with the operators of any third party websites that provide such services.


We’ve received reports that this site http://www.buyvirtualcard.biz/ is defrauding our customers of their game points card and cdkeys in return for digital currencies.

We would like to remind everyone again not to conduct any exchanges with them or any other sites that offers virtual currency or physical items exchanges. We’re not in any way associated or affiliated with any exchange sites, and never will be.


Such scam sites always runs on similar m.o. Firstly, they will request you to purchase a point cards, cdkeys, game cards or any other intangible goods from certain sites. Then, they will either ask you to mail them the serial codes or enter it in an available field to verify your order. (at this point you have expose your serials to them).


After receiving your codes, they will halt all communications with you and you’ll end up losing your game codes in the process. Don’t fall victim to such obvious scams.

Be smart and do a reverse thorough look-up on such sites or contact us at our live support for answers, if you’re unsure of a particular site that offers such exchanges.


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It has come to our attention that some of our customers have recently fallen victim to Internet fraud.

This site http://www.e-wowinn.com/ has defrauded many customers of their PSN codes and claims to be affiliated with us. We would like to remind everyone to be cautious of websites that allows codes exchanges. We are in no way associated with codes exchange sites, codes generating sites and even physical items exchange sites.

Remember to be extremely wary of anything online that sounds “too good to be true”. If a website suffers from poor design and looks as dodgy as this – http://www.e-wowinn.com/ is a telltale sign to avoid it.


In this case, the customer reports that some websites are requesting iTunes codes as payment in exchange for physical products.

Our customers have provided the iTunes codes to the recipient [email protected] or [email protected] and not only that they were cheated of their iTunes codes, but they also did not get the products as described on the scam sites.

We would like to inform all customers to be wary of such sites and OffGamers has no affiliation with these websites that offers iTunes codes trades or exchanges for physical and virtual products.

This is a very serious matter and OffGamers would like to remind all customers to be cautious and buying only from trusted vendors or websites.

If you come across websites that request payment in form of iTunes card purchased from us in exchange for physical or virtual products, please contact our live support immediately for assistance. Don’t get scammed!


Sample of a Scam Site

 

 

 

List of scam sites operated under [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]

Remember, if you have any doubts about websites that requires you to purchase iTunes or any codes from us in exchange for physical products or digital goods, please do not hesitate to contact our live support for assistance.

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