I didn't win one but just seconds ago 3 copies of Tomb Raider were given out. Turned out the guy made an account quickly and did a fake giveaway. I laughed when I looked how he had a Dota 2 card in his inventory with his full name on it. (some tournament badge).

So I wasted 50p for that fake giveaway.

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no

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dis

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Lol I saw this too. Every single person that spent his points on that giveaway must be dumb

1 decade ago
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Because points are way too hard to come by to waste them right?

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Sometimes you'll get a legit one. Staff has pointed this out over time even with examples. Is it a risk? Sure. But what do you really lose in the end? Regenerating points. Not so bad. If you think that it's fake then just report it and move on with your life. The rest of us will see what happens. shrugs

1 decade ago
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Fake giveaways are like cockroaches.

1 decade ago
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are you saying fake giveaways would survive a nuclear bomb? :3

1 decade ago
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No, it means that for every 1 fake giveaway you see, there's 10 more that you don't see.

1 decade ago
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Or maybe that if you cut off it's head it'll still live for days?

1 decade ago
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No I think he means that they have been around for hundreds of millions of years.

1 decade ago
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I won a fake giveaway once, but it was not on SteamGifts.
And it appears I wasted 50p on that giveaway too. :( I was too lazy to chech.

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Implying that those points are actually worth something and can be "wasted" :P

Anyway, the people who enter thsese giveaways dont seem to be that clever...

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A lot of them kept saying "Thanks Thanks Thanks" on the comment box not realized the scam was foiled from the first comment on top. I knew but I was like meh. maybe he's wrong. Turned out I was wrong. Dumb scammer.

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It's not a "scam" that was "foiled". Most "not received" giveaways come from a user not understanding how the site works, not an attempt to fool people.

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yea i agree with this, a time or 2 ive seen odd giveaways and messaged the guys, asking " hi i saw your giveaway on SG and was wondering if it was region locked? where did you buy it so i can make sure" and they would say "bought it? what do you mean? i dont own it and havent bought it, i was just making the giveaway so someone can win the game i was just being a nice guy."

a few ppl ive done this to have said this lol, so its true people honestly think copies of games come out of thin air for people to win lol

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I hate it when people call fake giveaways a scam. Like the user is out there trying to profit off of your points or something?

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Why are people that enter these giveaway not so clever?

Points are free and most of the time they are sitting there with no use, some people like me decide to use this points for these so called "fake giveaways" and take a chance to see if they are legit or not; if they are and you win... Bingo, you got an AA game, if they end being fake you just get over it and could even join groups for people who won fake giveaways.

Either way, you lose nothing but have the chance to win a great game.

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50p could be spent on 50 fortix giveaways, ya know?

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Ya, but i finally ended winning it on the last event so... that's not my problem anymore! :P

1 decade ago
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Never but I got a duplicated key once

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Dat feel. :<

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same here :/

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Calling a giveaway fake (as obvious as it might be) seconds after it closed still counts as calling out.

1 decade ago
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Won 2 fake giveaways, you can only see one in my profile because the other one was removed by a mod or admin, can't remember though.

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Not yet.

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I entered Call of Duty World at War a while back just to use mods in it (and I could brag to my brother) and I won, but the guy who did it entered one giveaway and then created it... It sucks when you lose to games like that... Now, I wasn't just insanely disappointed, but I would hate to have won something like Tomb Raider and it be fake...

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You didn't waste anything, your points were returned to you when the giveaway was deleted.

1 decade ago
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Okay cool.

1 decade ago
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Yes, but it was not deleted.

1 decade ago
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Right, misread the OP, thought it was deleted. Well, you'll get back your points when it's deleted then.

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It's not his full name, Jerry Lundqvist is a Dota 2 player which currently playing in Alliance team. His nickname is EGM.

And this type of cards are dropping after Dota 2 matches.

Just saying ^^

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Remove those links please, no calling out.

1 decade ago
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Well, I didn't know. Thanks.

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6 months ago I won Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition ... but sadly it was a fake one ._.

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no but it will happen sometime, im pretty sure :p

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Yeah. A while back, I won a copy of CS:GO. Turns out the guy was advertising his clan in the description, and after five days, when he finally accepted my friend request, the only thing he would say to me was "no."

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Yup. My heart was broken, my butt was hurt but I survived.

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Same as it was my first won.

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it probably wasnt on purpose, but i won prison architect, but never got the game.

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are you sure it was fake? i joined it too trying to win it... that guy is 100% legit...

his profile is proof to that, maybe you should try messaging him again and saying you will mark it as received if he hurries and gives it to you

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after a while i tried to add him on steam twice, both times he declined and his profile is set on private since the day the ga ended. i wrote on the ga page and told him ill wait extra long in case something happend ... well after 3 weeks i was sick of seeing that green banner ever time i checked steamgifts

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I won a fake giveaway that even the gifter didn't know that it was fake

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I won a fake giveaway of Assassin’s Creed III with over 6000 entries xD

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So far so good

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I always check

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yes i have.

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Luckily no.

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I did a month ago. I have since started to evaluate giveaways more carefully. While it's true that the lost points are no big deal, the disappointment was. It was a game I had wanted to try and was excited to have won.

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Closed 1 decade ago by Uberwatch.