A little searching shows that this same person ran a "bitcoin faucet", mostbitco.in, now expired. He also had a failed game on Greenlight with a kickstarter looking for $100 in funding, and participated in shady item giveaways on a now defunct Steam group. Address used for domain registration is also pinging a defunct site "secretsteamshop", but registration information has been overwritten by a domain parking company.
This all just screams scam. It seems like an ad-revenue clicktrap, with a side business of likely loading the giveaways with bot accounts to siphon off gifts/items for more revenue.
Resources:
https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=steambitcoins.com
http://website.informer.com/email/yunus_k@gmx.net
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/248343/ApoCatlypse__Greenlight_Campaign_Launched.php
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1060375988/apocatlypse/
https://twitter.com/StealthKilly
https://www.google.com/search?q=Zeppelinstr.+86%2C+Aachen+Nordrhein-Westfalen+52068+DE&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://mostbitco.in.2compete.org/
https://www.google.com/search?q=yunus_k%40gmx.net&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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I guess it depends on whether or not people have any realistic chance of getting anything in return for generating ad revenue for somebody else or whether they are just wasting their time in return for nothing.
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This.
The site admin already ran a bitcoin faucet that brought in users with decent payouts, then suddenly dropped the payout rate to insultingly low levels once he had attracted a userbase. When the backlash hit, he claimed a "mistake", then shuttered the site; this can be found in a bitcoin faucet forum that will be in the top results if you google "mostbitco.in". When someone already has a traceable shady history, it's not a far stretch to assume they are going to keep trying with similar tactics in new venues.
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I saw this link to this site called
steambitcoins.com
And after checking it out, it seems like giveaways.
Is this a shady site or a legit site?
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