I usually know I have won something by visiting the site before I ever see the email.
you get a nice little cat image popup when you win.
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not to say that it doesn't look suspicious but you have to send the winner your key - whatever e-mail address is linked to it
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Most of my winners have fake mail just for steamgifts when I look at. Tbh, it makes sense to me, cause each time I win game from someone, it means he knows my real name due to email.
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I too have "spambin@" email address that is used at any place where i don't have control who might see it. Like here, on SG, for example :) So doesn't look suspicious to me at all :)
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As already discussed many times I will make a small correction to your phrase:
Don't do level 0 or 1 giveaways, problem solved.
:D
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Are you serious? ; ) anyway, the email as described by OP sounds very much like some kind of trashmail-account..
I wouldn´t care too much about it, personally I have turned off e-mail notifications, so it wouldn´´t make a difference to me.
Nervertheless I´d hope it´s at least a valid e-mail account! That helped me to reach a couple of Winners in the past.
📪 📫 📭
edit: @adam1224 Just saw your 1st post; 99% sure you weren´t (serious) ; p
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I'm like 20% serious, but I may miss out on something.
In a nutshell: why we care? They can add any email, be it childish, weird or just a random number of characters, as lomg as it works. And if not, that's the winner's loss.
Though now writing this, and rememberig Captain Raymond Holt's short lived Twitter account in Brrokly Nine-Nine, OP may refer to the winner's legitimacy (I'm not a bot, I'm a human. I'm a human male!) as suspicious.
Btw if we're already at the topic of shady things and emails, if I remember well it was Rune 2's team that allegedly farmed winner email addresses for marketing reasons here on SG after a high copy-number dev giveaway.
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Considering real human being wouldn't want Rune II, how many really used mails they could got?
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About 4500 entries on the 500 and the 1000 copy GA both, it was early enough that people were interested in I guess.
Still pretty shockingly low entry for level 0
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I was just concerned if the winner will notice that he won something. But as I read further in the thread, when you login here you'll get a popup that cannot be missed.
In fact, I just won something today - hurray :D
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Make giveaways with levels, you avoid 99% suspicious accounts. (level 1 doesnt count, maybe like 4+)
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That's okay as long as it's not a temporary mail and works. It could be an alias to not get spammed, or when spammed easily change it with a new one. Just a gateway to their real email address.
Edit: You can search for the domain to see if it's an alias for a service or a temporary mail address.
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maybe the user self-hosts their own email server, and uses one of those funky new TLD domains
i.am@your.dadthis could be a totally legit email 😂 (.dad domain is actually operated by Google!)
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I'm certainly not the average steamgifts user, I've been coming here pretty much every day for the last 10 years. But I don't think I've ever relied on my email to notify me of a won giveaway. As long as you come here at least once a week you should be notified of any won giveaways as soon as you open the website.
But some people either don't want their personal emails made public or can't be bothered to make a new one, it's no big deal in my opinion.
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I only trust people with reputable email addresses, like gaben69@valve.com
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Hi!
one of my giveaways ended and a winner has a very strange email address - e.g. spam@somewhere.remote ; I will ignore this of course hoping the winner turns in his/her gift. But I wondered if the winner will notice that he/she did in fact win :)
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