Why do Indian Scammers want gift cards

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I understand that they want to launder the money with the gift card. How do they do it? The simplest way would be to sell the gift card for less than the total amount, so it's a bargain for anyone who would like a few extra dollars in exchange for paying with a gift card. I've looked for gift cards being sold on Ebay and they always sell for the total sale price (amount on chard + fees). They are not laundering the money though Ebay, at least. Where else are gift cards sold? The goal of laundering is to exchange illegitimate money for legitimate money by selling convertible products (gift cards) or inflating expenses. They must be making money if the keep scamming. Even how retarded Poojeets are does not stand in the way of that fact they need money to eat, so it can't just be a status symbol.

What do the scamming Poojeets do with the gift card numbers they get from the marks?
 
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The scammer group will build their own apps with in-app purchases and then use the gift card funds to make massive purchases. Or they'll sell the cards for less than they're worth for crypto.
 
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ForgedBlades said:
The scammer group will build their own apps with in-app purchases and then use the gift card funds to make massive purchases. Or they'll sell the cards for less than they're worth for crypto.
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Fascinating. Where do the bogus Google accounts come from? Do they just buy an android phone and then buy their own app with a newly created account and then factory reset the phone and repeat?
 
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You ever wonder how G2A and the like sell Google Play credit at an exorbitantly low price? It's Jeets putting the codes up on storefronts to sell to get whatever poo currency they use. If they don't already use those codes to buy things from each other. I know if you go to checkout with Google Pay on most shopping apps now, they let you subsidise the cost with your google play balance first.
 
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My uneducated guess is that you skip the fraud department by laundering money through gift cards. A direct transfer would be easy to trace/deny. You actually bought the cards, whether you spent them your self or sent the codes would be harder to resolve.
 
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because there's only so many ways you can convince an elderly person on the phone to transfer money.

1. bank transfer? the teller will warn them.
2. western union? the teller will warn them.

you have to remember too that the person who doesn't instantly hang up when steve from microsoft calls are already gullible so sending them down to walmart to buy 100bucks of google play cards won't be terribly difficult.
 
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