How safe is it to activate a won giveaway?

What guy? What account? What damages?

lol

Sometimes you need to trust the humanity a little bit ;)

No

If he remembers to "oh this is my cd key got stolen" or even worst if he claims the account as his. lol

If he is an ass an decides to prove Valve that he owns his account with the piece of hardware yes.But you can prove otherwise easily.Also he can just say to AMD that the key is invalid,they will invalidate your key and give him a new one.Therefore removing your game from your account.But you lose nothing since you won it for free and you get to report him to SG and he will be perma banned for sure.

I think Steam can only remove the game, that happened to me once cause giveaway's creator had a credit card problem and the payment for the gift was stopped. I don't think Steam would ban your account for activating a key...

The fuck are you talking about?

I'll have some of that stuff you've been smoking. We'll grab our gear and go camp outside Area 51 together. Good times!

Yes, AMD and Nvidia are evil!!

It's not safe at all. Burn every key immediately.

They can remove the game from your account. Even ban your account (quite rare but possible wit CC fraud). But you will have someone to point the finger at. I case of problems you provide to Steam, the source where you got the key from, for example a link to the gifters profile, together with the e-mail or Steam Chat where the user handed you the key. In the end it might blow up in the gifters face. And may lead to sactions against the gifter and/or his account for filing in a false complaint and trying to defraud.

Usually when i activate a gift ,a giant carrot appears and trying to eat my hands.

No,a single key recently added and a totally different IP making the claim will not trigger any action by steam.

Or it's a key all the time, and when you stick it in people, it unlocks their death.

very unsafe, i wouldnt risk it to be honest.

Keys are meant to be used by the individuals who bought them from the stores or won them from official events. Activating a key from anywhere else is risky and isn't advised.

give me the key I will damage my acount for you <<----- there is a joke

lolwut

YES THEY CAN

its aids save, give me all your won game keys! i'll take care of them with caution

No. If you win the giveaway you can safely activate your key. You have email/Steam chat as a proof that he gave the key to you. If he sends message to Steam support and for some unknown reason they remove game from your library (which they probably won't do anyway) you can just take screenshots from email/Steam chat and show them to Steam support as a proof that he gave you the key and you had rights to activate it.

The only time a giveaway key can harm your account is if the key is for a version of the game in a different language. I think Steam automatically warns you that the key is invalid for your account and prevents you from redeeming it, but if you try to circumvent this your account can be suspended/banned. I think it's because of some legal fuckery and perhaps price differences in the titles?

I'm sorry but it's a bit asinine to think this large of a website would exist along with a huge gifting culture on Steam to begin with if they would do damage to your account.

If the key is redeemable on Steam, it is safe for you to redeem. The guy has no access into the key, once it has been used once it cannot be used for other purposes. You are safe to accept a key, just test and make sure the key goes through before you mark it as received.