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Every day i see 2 same people who win private giveaways - http://www.steamgifts.com/user/Fallen96 and http://www.steamgifts.com/user/nood01
93-5 and 190-6, are they just boosting their stats or... wtf? I dont have any ideas why they doing things like that.
What is interesting - they always win same games (2 copies MW3 at this moment)
btw sorry for bad english

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snackbox

Theoretically, it'd be possible that they're making private giveaways for games they don't have, then send the URL only to each other and mark the gifts as received.

Why? Well, they're boosting their account stats (namely, gifts received and account value). Currently, they have no effect, but they're probably anticipating that this will change in the future (like, a new user class for people who contributed a certain overall value in gifts).

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Flex

Yes, they do. I talked to one of them, they think positive rating increases their chance to win in giveaways (which is not true, of course).

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Impudence

I'm not sure what they could gain from boosting their stats aside from the games they win.

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Misado

Point boosting

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jerrygamer

Private giveaways don't generate points.

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nofing

Actually they only loose points, because they have to use points each time they enter one of the private giveaways and don't earn any points, because private giveaways don't generate points.
Glad they are banned already, because even if they didn't gain anything from this, they still tried to cheat.

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GVBN

place in top 10 contributors (these guys are #3 and #6 right now) and trustworthiness for their future fake giveaways

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NemhainUA

wow, nice!! i didnt know that my post will make such effect :D

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