One way gifting, likely scams...but why?

Maybe it's your friend or one of them in disguised account?

Also you can ask your friend from where he knows that guy.

Maybe it's just a random guy deciding to be really nice? I've done similar things with online in-game items...

You won't get banned for accepting a gift.Take it, just be careful about the links you click and information you give.

I met one of them and gave me Dishonored for free. I was like da fuq after that became better friends.

I think the worst can happen is the game being revoked later on.
And like other said, don't give any acc info and scan any urls with some url scanner.

I've never heard of anyone's account being locked because of a game being revoked.. I got a few games revoked because someone who traded me turned out to be a crook or something like that. That was 3 months after the transaction took place, all I was told from Steam is the payment was contested and cancelled. I placed a request and got back the items I traded originally which were TF2 keys and a Half-Life Complete Pack.. I think I was lucky to get them back mostly because they were Valve items. I'm really picky when it comes to trade involving keys since then..

Keep us informed of where this goes, I'm quite curious... Just be careful, and ask here if you have a doubt about something...

I doubt it's a scam. He just wants attention.

If a gifted game gets revoked on your account, Steam won't take action against you.

It happened to me once. Someone added me and gave a game.
I was basically speechless. Totally unexpected.

But I would find it suspicious too, it's not something that happens every day.

Ah yes, the perks of having mammary glands

But on a more serios note, he's might just revoke it later, i dunno. Some people have weird sense of humor so that might be his thing. Regardless of what are his true intentions it's not a good idea to accept anything from him right now

Well one guy that I met on steam was really nice and gifted me a game about 2 months ago ^_^

I found him and added him, he asked me if I want a game and I told him yes. He asked me which, and I said "Assassin's Creed V: The Return of Ezio"... And he said "Okay"... Then he said that I will have to give him a game now and that it was CS:GO. I am trolling him. lol

http://pastebin.com/R3J8Leci ...

Given the way he types, he sounds like a begger undercover. I could be wrong though.

Maybe it's this syndrome.

I once bought a friend borderlands 2 because I could afford it and he had gotten scammed during a trade. That being said, I gift my steam friends lots of games but never just add random people to gift them (however maybe I should do that to get rid of my list of unredeemed steam games).

For me this raises a red flag for account theft. More and more are people using a gift excuse to hijack accounts. I'm speaking out of experience, though in my case i got a high end keylogger on my system by a yet unknown source though in a certain way this was again related to me "recieving a gift".

The guy is probably going to scam you in some certain way, maybe a very obvious way (which is likely considering his lack of communication) but always be on alert with things like this and don't be greedy.

For a lvl 1 account that's pretty unusual, smells like scam or stalker or something :p

Say a game name and see what the catch is after that. Then it may become obvious what the scam is, if a scam at all.

Idk... when i was new to steam, i got a few free games from when winter sales had game drops instead of cards. and i owned tf2 and that was it. got a game from the drop i didnt want, added a random person and gave it away. :/ b4 sg was made too lol.

I was looking to trade a game on steamtrades and some random dude added me on Steam and gave me the game for free. Nice guy. And by the way if you check other comments you'll see that this guy wants CS:GO in exchange for the game you ask, but he wants you to go first. So, yes he is a scammer.

"Oh, hi, random guy! I can't afford games but I can give you any game". Seems legit.