G2A can't be shutdown for wirefraud because they did no such thing.
G2A is a site where end users can resell key codes for Steam, Origin etc. that weren't activated yet.
Anyone can go to G2A and sell the product key of a game they got e.g. from bundles like Humble Monthly.
I think G2A presents a great opportunity for gamers to get back a little money from keys for games that they got but aren't interested in playing.
Indie dev got money from Humble Bundle to sell a steam key, I paid for Humble Monthly and got the key for that game but I don't want to play it so I sell it on G2A, someone pays $5 for that steam key on G2A, I get $4 for a key that would otherwise be unused, G2A gets $1. On the dev's side, after the key was paid for I think they'd prefer if people were playing the game to boost its popularity. No harm done IMO.
The problem here is the perception that G2A isn't trying hard enough to come after the users who abuse the credit card system. I don't know if they are, though.
But G2A isn't the one who's practicing credit card fraud.
It is true that everyone can sell unused Steam keys on G2A, but what the developers have discovered is that the vast majority aren't legit Steam keys. This is by them tracking the keys that get charged back compared to the keys that get redeemed from purchase on G2A.
The fact that G2A uses "non-affiliated" sellers who's identities are in most cases unknown, means that it's quite easy for G2A affiliated people to sell keys using stolen identities. There's no way to trace the activity back to G2A themselves as long as they are careful.
So, sure, much of this is "speculation" on the part of affected developers, but pretty much most of them assume it is G2A as G2A has been reluctant to work with developers on closing access to ways to "abuse" the system. For example, one thing that came up a few years ago was G2A wanting developers to pay them thousands of dollars a year in order to address some of the concerns the developers had. A legit business would want to do all they could to ensure sellers on their system were legit, but the fact is that the bulk of the keys sold there are using fraudulent information...usually untraceable stolen identities.
This doesn't mean that legit keys aren't also sold on G2A, just that from what the developers have found out, the majority of the keys aren't legit.
There is one relatively high profile company that takes an active hand in banning/invalidating keys. Arena.net has an active stance in banning keys that are found fraudulent.
You can look up Guild Wars 2 in relation to G2A fraud and come up with tons of threads from people asking why their account got banned, and in most cases it'll be because they bought their key from G2A.
While Guild Wars 2 hasn't had an expansion in a while (their last was 2 years ago, I believe), they would issue warnings on their site whenever they released a new expansion to not buy the game from G2A because it would most likely be fraudulent and thus the user was likely to get their account banned.
While not credit card fraud, here's a G2A seller talking about their particular scam.
Selling reviewer keys (expressly prohibited by the licensing agreement for reviewer keys, sort of like an NDA). He also briefly mentions other ways G2A "sellers" commit fraud.
Regards,
SB
