Someone pretended to be the winner

Shame.

You can see who you gave your game to.

STEAM - GAMES - GIFTS AND GUESS PASSES name is written there, please provide a picture or it didn't happen.

Maybe it did happen. Just send all gift via emails, that's fair.
And you are quite not knowing of the Steam Guard and so on? You should have just waited.

it says you who you gave it to in your gifts and guest passes tab in steam.

You can ask Steam support to refund this gift to you.

Why don't people just send to the email?

Now, if he says he can't access it, why doesn't he change the email -- you can do that, you know -- and if he won't its obviously a fake :|

Ah well...
These things are still on-going :(

I'm pretty sure you can prevent this from happening by following these steps:

1. If scammer added you, check between the winner profile and friend profile
2. If they're not the same, block(or ignore) the scammer
3. If you're not sure, you can check the namehistory

Thats why I add my winners. At least I still trust myself.

That's why when people add me to try to scam them I get their Steam ID

Please tell us who redeemed the gift.

Not showing the winner to anyone but the one who created the giveaway until he receives the key would probably solve this kind of things.

This has been happening alot. I have seen alot of warnings about it. Cult even made a post telling everyone to block a certain user becuase he pulled it off so many times. In all reality if he doesnt have access to a certain email he should change it and update it on here. very easy to do.

how pathetic

Just curious, since I have not won anything nor started a giveaway yet, do you receive an email notification from steamgifts.com after the giveaway has ended, either as a gifter or a winner? Not everyone reads these forums, so forum notices might not have as much impact as a direct message upon giveaway closing warning the Gifter to play it safe and providing instructions on how to do so if needed.

I agree with Lost that there should be a delay in publicly revealing who the winner is until the gifter/winner has successfully contacted the other. It makes sense to allow both the Gifter and the Winner to see this information, but not the rest of the public, until the transaction is complete.

Imo, having to deal with people trying to con you out of your generosity is rather offputting, not just for Gifters who have fallen prey to these tricks, but also for people considering creating giveaways in the future.

Sorry to hear that, man. Crap happens pretty easily when you aren't paying attention for just a bit, especially when you're being generous in the first place.

Just contact support. They can see who you sent the lat gift to. Explain them everything about this site and about that the scammer did a and they will look for that. A few weeks ago when this kind of scam started some guy stole a skyrim copy. The gifter contacted support after that and now that scammer doesn't have that gift anymore

in steam go to community, then view all recent history. his name will be there. or in my history.

Pretty sure this is exactly the reason you should only send to the email address that's listed with the site.

"I don't have access to that email anymore?" Really? The email that he signed up for on this site within the last, at best, few months? I'm sorry this happened, but the internet is a dangerous place and you have to watch out for yourself.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/animaeternaspritss This is his profile but I doubt he is registered here with that one.

Make sure you report to Steam support that you gifted a game to someone who pretended to be your intended recipient.
Even if you can't get it back, make sure that there is a complaint against him for historical purposes.

:D, "didn't have access to that email anymore", dont you fell suspiciuos when he said that? Dont trust when somebody will say like that. Btw where is other option how to check is his account is scam or real: Just go to his profile when winner is selected>open his profile>Look at games waht he have, what his steam rating is and how mamy hours he have played>When if "somebody" requests to sen game via steam check again his steam profile games,rating,hours palyed, etc., and when compare, you will see that it is diffrent than it looks. NOTE: If profile is Private, than send it through the e-mail, and dont send via steam.