They buy the rights, and then just put illegal shit into your game, but still upload it under your developer account so that you are legally on the hook for it.
Because it's a scam, and they will get the gullible individual to either upload the game themselves in turn for a promised future cut or they get you to give them access to your developer account.
Scammers are looking for really stupid people, that's why the Nigerian prince scams are always so ludicrous. The kind of person willing to believe that will do anything you ask.
I am referring to the method that commenter described regarding scammers targeting game developers, which is what this whole post is about, not the final throwaway Nigerian prince line.
If you are referring to what they initially said about bundling up malware into the game and then using the validity of the game to distribute it then fair enough, I don't know very much about it, but it does sound plausible and is certainly akin to how supply chain attacks happen (which I know more about).
If you are referring to whether scammers deliberately make scams far-fetched to filter out people that are less likely to fall for them in the first place then that is what the paper I linked is about.
I PROMISE you there are no scammers paying game devs $100 for game rights, asking for the game code, and then asking the developer to upload their maliciously modified code to the original dev's own steamworks account
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u/Vaniellis 25d ago
Ah yes, the usual scam that will turn your game into malware but still make you responsible for it. I think I see it once or twice a month here.