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Damn, thanks, will stop buying from them
It's a grey area (again, as I removeded elsewhere, because game companies are also against used sales and cross-region sales).
It can be stolen credit cards.
It can also be:
But because everyone involved is in a grey area, there's not as much transparency from anyone exactly how many this is. G2A argued for years it was virtually zero, then admitted it's a bit higher than that. Is it 10%, 50%, somewhere in between? We actually don't know.