Don't link it!
I'd say it's probably a phishing site
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Interesting. I did not log in, but when I started the process, it didn't ask for user/pass, like most phishing attempts. Instead, it loaded a very legit looking Valve page with me already logged in.
Edit: It even tracked my comment count correctly from my user page. O.o
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domain name is registered to a person in India
website is hosted in Russia
don't know if it's a scam but it's definitely not the Steamgifts.
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Interesting. The website owner is Indian, and in the lower-left corner on the webpages are a small logo/button leading to a Russian website which I assume might be the hosting service?
Perhaps it's a way to bypass ban lists in certain countries, so if steamgifts.com is banned, they may still access it?
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Perhaps it's a way to bypass ban lists in certain countries, so if steamgifts.com is banned, they may still access it?
While I did not verify it does not work, I am extremely skeptical of that. The giveaway functionality is likely broken unless the site's author either a) wrote their own give-away code separate from SG's ... at which point, why bother scraping / showing gibs from SG? or b) has some way to pass registrations from their site to SG's (which SG would have to allow on their end for it to work). I think it very unlikely they are affiliated with SG; I mean, yeah it could be an SG dev's dev server or something but generally dev/testing servers point to separate database instances. And AFAIK, SG's api's are not public (because at that point, it would probably be trivial to create bots that could enter giveaways).
My best guesses are either:
- Scam/phishing site
- unofficial "mirror" site with non-functional giveaways which is scraping the official SG site / tracking who won what. Users in other countries would be able to view discussion/user profiles/etc but not participate in giveaways.
EDIT: ok, one point in favor of them being affliiated with SG is how quickly the updates from official SG appear on their site; it is basically instantaneous.
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I was searching for an old post of mine today and was lazy / didn't use
site:steamgifts.com... and stumbled across this site: psylliumhuskunjha.com which appears to be either a phishing site or something mirroring this site's discussions/etc. The TOC still says "SteamGifts"; but thewhoisregistration info is completely different from the real SG site's.Anybody familiar with what this actually is?
EDIT: Unlinked it
EDIT #2: It appears to be hitting scraping from official SG frequently too; saw my comments to this thread appear pretty much instantly on the clone site... See psylliumhuskunjha.com/discussion/eZpNM/steamgifts-phishing-site
Makes me wonder if it is somehow affiliated with SG / using same DB... otherwise SG would be getting massive scrapping hits from some IP address in their logs. Also seems like SG params work there as well e.g. adding
?point_min=50filters to show only giveaways that are 50P or more.Also, TIL that psyllium is a laxative...
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