I read a while ago that you shouldn't accept games from strangers and I saw this thread saying that he will buy people steam games that are on sale right now. Should I ask?

He gave around 400$ worth of games already, should I ask from him? :o

I'm currently broke and..

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it depends on who the guy is , if you're suspicious ask someone who got games from him...

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Well, I can see that he actually bought the games, lots of proof he actually did, but can't he revoke the game and lock the accounts of the ones he gave the game to?

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No. If they're Steam gifts, Steamguard prevents fraud, so calling it fraud is hard and there's no trade-backs. If they're keys, Valve doesn't care. Most that happens is you lose the game you didn't pay for so it doesn't hurt.

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if he had proof of the recipients somehow buying games with his account he may be able to do that , but I don't think someone would be spending money just for the chance of locking other people's accounts..

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He can't get your account locked unless he somehow makes you buy the game with fraudulent methods. At worse, your game will be removed from the library.

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It's pretty hard to tell scammers from legit people.. although I don't know of any way you can really lose. If the games get revoked later you haven't exactly lost anything. Once I had just missed out on the humble bundle with alan wake collection in it, which I really wanted but couldn't buy coz I was broke. A couple of days later I got added by a guy who gifted me...you guessed it, alan wake collection. He just asked that I post something good about him on his profile, +1 rep, good trader or whatever. This was quite a few months ago and the games never got revoked so.. that's my only experience with randoms giving me stuff and it worked out pretty well for me.

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Yeah but if they revoke it your account gets locked, yes?

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usually steamgifts and humble bundle links game revoke keys do not revoke.

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You don't have to spend $400 to lock someone's account. You can do it with just $1.

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Alright, should I ask for a game then? :o

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can you expound on this.

What are the ways you get your account locked.

TIA

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not necessarily, usually you receive a warning for the first time and furthermore you can always give good reasons why you're not a part of this scam

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Even worse - the world ends. Seriously though, I honestly doubt you'd get your account closed for accepting a gift, relax dude.

EDIT: Unless he works for a mob and will blackmail you into assassinating rival gang leaders, all just because you accepted a shitty, discounted game from him. I wouldn't do it, man.

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Really? I didn't know this. But if you got gifted the game rather than buy it with a fraudulent CC for your own account (the guy sent me a steam gift, it wasn't a key so it wasn't actually from the humble bundle, it just happened to be right after the humble bundle ended) wouldn't it be obvious to support that you were given the game by the real scammer? I would be very hesitant accepting keys from someone I didn't know but I would have thought gifts would be okay.

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Well just in case you better not redeem these codes then just in case I go back and try to take them back.

CTVN5-R28D7-9EZ0L

7CTW0-VEN5C-HBH27

L3DD6-2TQRH-0YF28

J66AE-346RL-BW74P

EIC2F-ZG3L0-ZT99V

CHR65-J3V2T-MNCZ3

F8QHI-50JGX-0CZDD

EZ90R-PAF3T-HRPXM

If you are brave enough to redeem, let me know which ones you use so I can delete them off my inventory spreadsheet.

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got this one : 7CTW0-VEN5C-HBH27 , thanks mate :D

EDIT : managed to snag this one too J66AE-346RL-BW74p

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all are gone by now, what game was it? :s

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Just random stuff that I've bought over the last few months.

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damn, missed em :(

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All gone.

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dang, didn't get anything.

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just for curiosity, where is this thread?
also if i'm not mistaken they can't do anything to your account, at the most they remove the game from your library.

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i'm speechless, i really didn't know something of the sort was possible..
well, you have to admire the resourcefulness of the Russian guys, even though that was a really dick move.

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Account was locked by accident by support member when he removed 10 RUB because he reported it and not because it was actually chargedback.

Edit: Proof

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What the fuck?

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Didn't really happen, seee above :P

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well now i'm just bamboozled =/ why would some random russian dude give him 10rubles?
i call it conspiracy!!

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GA with just me in it hopefully

Someone like this too. TIA to him

There are still random santa's here.

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I will find you and I will enter you..

EDIT : well that sounded creepy..

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lol! It does sounds creepy.

will update this when the GA ends.. its almost midnight here but good thing i wasn't going to sleep. It might not have happend.

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well good luck with that :D

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You will not win

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yes, i might not... thats why i am praying that i would BE the only one in :D

hoping he didn't give it to others or the others are away, asleep, afk when he gave the link on the net

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The creator has a DC tag in his name too and registered at roughly the same time as you, I'd hardly call this person random. Also you marked it as received a minute after it ended (saw it on the main page before I read this topic), extremely rare to receive the gift right when it ends even between friends. Not saying you're trying to cheat the CV system but I saw someone who made a puzzle just to disguise his cheating. If it really is just a coincidence though then good for you :)

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The creator does not get CV if there is only 1 entry.
So good luck using SG this way. :)

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I know but most don't, I saw many users trying to cheat the system this way :)

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Well, you have nothing to loss :) The worst that can happen is that he buys the game and doens't send it to you.
If he does send it to you in a steam trade, it's yours. Valve doesn't support trades outside of steam so even if he says you should have sent him $10 on paypal, they don't care.

Also, I'd love to know who it is :)

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where is this thread? i can get a "proof" for you

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