Same card, same issue here. Only happening with steam it seems like. Not sure which end is being wonky though. Super annoying.

I just had this problem, talked to Green Dot support and was told that Steam is no longer accepting any Green Dot cards. I pressed for details, but didn't get any. I was just told that I can't use the card on Steam anymore.

hi

Have you registered your name, address and telephone number with the card issuer, and do those details match your steam account details ?

I had this problem too. The problem is Green Dot sucks. It used to be possible to purchase directly through Visa Green Dot cards but apparently they recently put some sort of block on it. I tried calling in to manually request the transaction to be approved multiple times. They always say they approved it, but it never works.

The only work around I've found is to link your green dot card to a PayPal account and pay with PayPal. It doesn't cost any extra and the payment processed fine for me after that.

Assuming this is the case - that Steam are no longer accepting them, then it's usually for a couple of reasons.

Whenever a vendor like Steam accepts cards or bank payments, then they obviously have to go through the same banking procedures everyone else does. I won't go into the details here, but the problem arise when there's fraud and mistakes.

If say, Valve get a payment from an account that has been phished, the scammer used the REAL owners bank card or another stolen one, and the bank that owns the card will not only rescind the payment, but Valve get forced to pay a fee (iirc it's around $35 a pop, but I could be wrong on that).

But it cuts both ways too. If there's an exploit or people are abusing this type of card, then Valve will still get the fee if the payment gets returned.

So it wouldn't take too many instances for Valve to go "♥♥♥♥ it" and cancel them as a payment method.

A few years ago, PaysafeCard was restricted on here for some time after a security breach (it was a few months iirc). Same thing.

why

Oprindeligt skrevet af alextrex2015:

why

Things were bad for Green Dot...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/green-dot-bank-cannot-access-funds-locked-out-of-account-why-rcna100490

https://www.bankingdive.com/news/federal-reserve-fines-green-dot-44-million-consent-order-aml/722012/

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/enf20240719b1.pdf

Oprindeligt skrevet af cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Oprindeligt skrevet af alextrex2015:

why

Things were bad for Green Dot...

{LINK FJERNET}https://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/green-dot-bank-cannot-access-funds-locked-out-of-account-why-rcna100490

{LINK FJERNET}https://www.bankingdive.com/news/federal-reserve-fines-green-dot-44-million-consent-order-aml/722012/

{LINK FJERNET}https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/enf20240719b1.pdf

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Nice, they're still having maintenance and account issue. I recall someone who used greendot, he had an extra $200 somehow show up in his account, I do not recall what it stated the funds were for but he used them to purchase groceries and the likes. I believe a few days later his account was then deducted $200 which when he contacted greendot they stated it was a maintenance issue that caused his account to have the extra funds. He of course tried to fight it which I did state he should have simply left those funds for a while before using them and that was his fault, however greendot initiated this to begin with. He has of course since switched to a much better bank, has not had one account or maintenance issue.

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.