I was looking for some humble bundle gifts through Google, and actually found a couple. The forum page I found myself on contained several steam keys from the humble bundle. I redeemed a couple, but steam was acting weird as usual, and it said stuff like "Showdown Effect Successfully Redeemed". I had a feeling it wasn't accurate, so I restarted steam and this is what I saw:

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Arma 3!? :O

I'm sure it's too good to be true, it'll probably be revoked or something, I don't know.

I also got an expired gift in my inventory for Arma 3 lite.

I wonder what happened....

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Its from the illegally accessed Arma keys and you will get banned.

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+1

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Hopefully it gets revoked, and I don't get banned, as this is a simple misunderstanding. :P

11 years ago
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"get banned" Bullshit. They don't ban for this sort of thing unless they can prove you were the one exploiting it.

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I wasn't serious.

11 years ago
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My apologies then. A lot of people genuinely do have this misconception though.

11 years ago
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I was told you do get trade banned for a month or something whenever they remove an illegally obtained game, though.

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I've yet to ever see that. They have no way of knowing if you exploited it, if a friend did, or if you just picked up a key someone dumped, so they can't and don't punish you for these things.

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Nope

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contact support and tell them before they realize, that way you won't have the fault... kinda... :P and if it's a legit key you'll be able to keep it :)

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I'm honestly not sure what category "I'm afraid I may have redeemed something illegally purchased" falls onto. I went to steam support and was going to create a ticket, but there's really no way for me to make the appropriate request/complaint.

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well it's easy, make a support ticket and say "I was randomly looking at the interwebz when on a blog someone posted "steam key for you ninjas ;D"" and just like that you got it first yay~ \O/
BUT then you realized, it could be a fake/stolen key D: oh mah gawd, what do!? tell steam and apologize so nothing bad happens to you IF it's a fake/stolen key :) GL

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That post just made my brain decay a little bit. XD
edit - REALLY had to add a smiley in there

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you can't deny it's a good idea :D

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lol

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Closed 11 years ago by JohnMonroe.