A wild fake gift appears!

I won Black Ops and never received it

I won some cake. It was a lie.

You realize those points are determined by the price of the game on Steam and not the person giving away the game, right? And that your points replenish themselves over time, so even if you do waste 50 points on a fake giveaway, you'll get them back in about a day or so. As for how often fakes happen, I'm not going to say they don't, but they don't happen that often and the people who create fake giveaways don't last very long around here.

They are quite often for expensive games or DiRT(whih is basically DiRT3). And if the giveaway is in fact fake you'll get your points back when/if it's deleted.

What do you have against russians? Share your view.

Out of curiousity, would you trust this one? If not, why not and what do I need to do to make myself seem like a respectable business gentleman?

The first and only giveaway i win got deleted like 5 minutes after i won :(

And it's happened in a cheap few points game

I don't get it OP - why each giveaway created by Russian player ought to be fake?

You can either take the blue pill and enter and hope to win the game, or you can take the red pill, and then go check his steam profile, see that the game is not present in his inventory and that he is a scammer and move on to other giveaways.

Yeah... And guys with empty profiles (or hidden ones) are not so suspicious as russian drunken pigs.

If you have doubts about a giveaway, follow this general rules:

• has the person made prior giveaways ? If yes, what is his % of received ? If it's above 75%, he is good.

• click his name and look at his steam profile. Does that look like a gamer's account or as a fake/unused account ?

• if her has prior giveaways, check those which are marked as Not Received and read the last comments. It might be the winner's fault - as in the gift was sent but not claimed for 1-2 weeks, then the giveaway creator recalled the gift and made a new giveaway in order to select a new winner

• look at when the giveaway creator joined steamgifts.com and make sure it's not too new

Anyway, if you check the statistics page, there are less than 5% of fake giveaways on this site: http://www.steamgifts.com/stats

If you are still afraid a giveaway might be fake, feel free to get in touch with the creator via steam or facebook or the forum.

I've only ever won 2 prizes - both fake. Astro Tripper and LIMBO, so not exactly high-value games, either.

most of fakes are because people just didn't know what they are doing and were not familiar with this site enough

It's odd. I've never had experience with these so-called "Russians".

...That came out really wrong. I'm Russian, so. That's doubly worse.

You can get a sense of legitimacy through checking their profile.

The one rule I followed for entering giveaways before I got 300 point capped every day was to be suspicious of mid-range average rated games from first time givers.

A lot of the time someone misunderstands the site, signs up and tries to give away some random game they only have on their game list that they didn't like that much.

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/8prs9/team-fortress-2

Seems to be one. 0 entries, 0 forum posts, hidden profile. Hasn't given the links to the winners, and appears to not have been on the site again.

I won Skyrim, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

MW3

I'm russian but always send gift to winner. What am I doing wrong?

http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/jhLP3/deus-ex-human-revolution Russian and fake, i know not all russians are fake btw

I won Dota 2
:(

I won Rage and didn't receive it =(

I won Batman Arkham City! Never received! ;(