So, how can one really tell a giveaway is fake? I mean, sure you can look over their inventories and wishlists. If the game is on their wishlist, it should be obvious this giveaway is fake, or at least that the person putting up the giveaway is confused and thinks that this is how you request a game to be given away or something. Doubtful though.

What are some of the ways you can tell?

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No description

Registered 1 day ago

No games in steam account

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Pretty much this.

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That makes it pretty clear. And you probably already know why this was posted, since you posted the warning. But I ain't callin' nobody out.

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if you don't have any games in your steam account jou cant join this site

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well ppl can create an account specially for gifts, so it doesn't work all the time.

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add russian

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lol ^ somewhat true

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There's no "definite" way, you can only make a guess.

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I usually skim down a few comments, usually if somebody has noticed that it's probably a fake giveaway then they will note it as a reply to the first comment or something.

That doesn't always work though:
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/9iG1A/complete-naval-combat-pack

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Ouch. I haven't been as far as not receiving a gift from a giveaway I've won just yet, but I can imagine it sucks. At least the giver gets banned, and the more of them that do, the more quality giveaways come up.

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That only works if the number of fake giveaways stop growing.

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It sucks pretty badly yeah, at least the conversation I had with the guy who made the giveaway was pretty entertaining so that's something if nothing else.

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Why would someone fake a giveaway? (sorry, if I'm missing something obvious - I'm new to steamgifts)

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most propably for teh lulz

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Because they are dumb and think that the site gives the person the game for free. (That was one case). Or they don't know how giveaways work.

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... how could they POSSIBLY think that...?

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No clue, happened maybe 1-2 weeks ago. He thought that the site had a bot that gaveaway the game you wanted.

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... sniggering Oh, man, is the giveaway page/forum thread still around? Or did a mod delete it?

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I think it's deleted or I can't find it.

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Damn. Oh, well. Thanks for the laugh anyway.

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People are stupid. Not everyone is, but enough are.

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Just imagine a person not understanding English (or unable to find the rules in their own language). The few things they understand are individual words like "gift", "create", and then the names of the games. That's one possibility.

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Typically for trolling. But as Yatterman mentioned, some just don't know how giveaways work.

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Maybe people do it to boost their overall points on the site?

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Yeah, I was thinking that as well.
Might be better if points were distributed to everyone after a gift is marked received rather than when the gift is first put onto the site.

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You don't get points for your own giveaways made, only other peoples.

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Pretty much everything mentioned here.

At the end of the day you're not paying, nor losing anything by entering giveaways, seeing as you get the points for free over time anyway. So it's just basically your own intuition as to whether to trust a giveaway or not. I mean some people don't put descriptions, or are new to the site and are actually putting up a legit copy of a game.

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just like this dude making fake giveaways! in the last minutes he says sorry -__- http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/FyRK1/la-noire-the-complete-edition

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So what happens to points in a situation like this? Nothing?

(p.s. I registered and immediately put up a game with no description, so we're not all bad)

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they'll get their ban at end of week

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^ +1

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To be fair to that user, he's also given out two copies of Space Empires V, one of which has already been marked as received.

In addition, you shouldn't be calling out users on the forum. If you have a problem with a specific giveaway, create a Support ticket.


Chat Room, Forum, and Site Etiquette:

  • Please do not call out users in the forum or chat. Submit a ticket in the Support Forum.
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Gifting game from own wishlist

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False. I won gMod when the gifter had it on his wishlist.

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Closed 13 years ago by Kyithios.