Account suspended after trading a gift

well this sounds kind of scary

Also there are rumors that most of the CD-Keys of Dirt3 comes from hacked DB (especially the last ones.)
Take care.

What a shit, really :l

Beale, thanks for the info. Yes I did activate a DiRT 3 code, but it would be kind of stupid to ban people for that. I mean, those hackers won't use all those keys by themselves, they'll sell 'em to people who have no idea for a lower price. And those people's accounts will get suspended. Sense?

Mate, any update?
Did you contact Steam Support?

Grommit, yeah I've created a ticket, but if you had any experience with Steam support then you know how long it takes for them to respond. Anyway, my guess is that a chargeback for the purchase took place, and since I am the final owner of the gift - I suffer.

To be honest - when I see people giving 10 copies of Dirt 3 away, then I can't believe that they are legit.
http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/a638l/dirt-3

This is disconcerting.
Is there a way to consult Steam about a 'won' gift key, before adding to your library?
It seems, this would remedy this sort of situation.

oh crap this is making me not want to win hahaha

To be honest, there is nothing to worry about if this happened due to the chargeback. You just post the link to the giveaway where your profile is linked and you get unblocked. But I don't know the true reason in my case. Even though I don't see any other, the Steam Trade rules say that I shouldn't be punished. Yet, the Trading is still in beta, therefore not all Steam Support Staff may be acknowledged with the new rules.

What do you mean by "maybe the Metro 2033 Steam deal I caught is the reason. Or the Borderlands GOTY deal?" How could getting a deal get you banned? Or do you mean you got keys for those games somehow?

In Steam's description of the new trading feature, they addressed the issue of what happens if a stolen card was used to purchase the game. They said the person who bought the game, and not the one who activates it, would be banned. You would still lose the game though.

I'm curious to see what happens. If this becomes common, using this site could be dangerous :(

Good luck mate. I have 160 games on my account and I'm using only Steam for gaming. I can't imagine how I would react when my account got banned... ;)

I had a feeling that giveaway was not legit. Reported and didn't enter, guess I was right. Good luck to you.

Is your account name the same as your display name? maybe someone decided to try playing guessing games with your password? I'm just grasping here for ideas.

The steam account of the person who made the giveaway for just cause does not look to be banned. It's currently online, where your account is not. So I don't think that is the reason. Per the old steam rules about gifting games with bad credit cards or what have you, both accounts would be effected. And only your account was. So I think this is probably something else entirely.

There have been mentions of Dirt 3. Not sure why, that's not what the giveaway you linked was for. But if you did redeem a copy of that game, odds are good it wasn't legit, and that's what you were banned for.

Besides I use Webmoney as a method of payment, and there is no such thing as "chargeback of Webmoney cash", since no banks are involved in this system. The only and single time I have used a credit card to make purchases in Steam dates back to April 2009, when the Webmoney wasn't available as a payment method in Steam. I can hardly imagine that a chargeback could have occured after two and a half years, for God knows what reason. If that is the case, I think I'm gonna laugh.

Just want to say, the guy that you won JC2 from is online right now. So people need to stop being so hysterical, as he would've been suspended/banned as well.

I feel with you, but as others have said, the guy you won from is online right now. So the best thing to do is just to wait for steam support, which is usually 2-3 days.

This is quite worrying.

I have just joined up, but does this happen often with the giveaway's, or is it just the odd game?

I certainlly wouldn't want to risk my account being banned having 250+ game's on there

Try contacting the Steam Support; They will either help you or give you a clear answer on the situation.

Don't freak out. They will reenable it.
My acc was closed like 4 time and each time i made a ticket to the support they have re activate it.

No worries, Be patient
GL

Do you have a lot of regional games? I see you're in Canada, but are Russian. Steam gets suspicious if there's a lot of regional restrictions.

From what I have read in this thread, I think Steam just made a mistake. If there was something wrong with the JC2 payment, the gifters account would have been suspended. Probably this has nothing to do with steamgifts.
But keep us posted when you get any news!

I registered key one month ago and account is live. I and my friends give a lot keys from DiRT3, no one tell my "KIOSHI!!11 You son of a b*tch! MY ACCOUNT IS BLOCKED!!!1"

What's with all the name changes? Or should I call you... GIRL BOSS 16?