I understand that some of the giveaways like "!!!GTA5 (3 COPIES) NO LEVEL REQUIRED!!!" are fake, and most likely the winner won't receive the game.
However I wonder is there any risk entering them? Is there some kind of entrants' personal data that giveaway creator might use to no good?

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no, you are safe.

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they can get your email address if you win, and they can get your steam profile if it's public. That's it, and that's the same as any other giveaway.

The only other risk is the disappointment of losing the points you used to enter, and which you got for free.

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That why you should use a different e-mail address on your steam and steam gift.
Steamgift cannot get your e-mail via steam you have to input it.
To protect yourself from possible hacker always have 2-4 account A public e-mail which anyone can sent and see, a SPAM E-mail account which is my personal favorite since that contain all my newsletter for a total of 120 sites (Seriously I only do this to get a heads up on giveaways updates and such). and a private e-mail which you can use for like steam account and optionally a Credit card e-mail account (You can be too safe you know) which you only use for credit card related transaction.

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No. There is no risk at all

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You lose points, that's it. Or maybe get frustrated if you win and not get the game.

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Sometimes some ppl create fake giveaway intentionally to make ppl join some group, and then never giving the game to the winner. Other may do this to fool ppl into giving feedback to something they need and then never giving anything to the winners. But it's not really risky.

If you enter fake giveaways just from ppl who don't understand SG rules and think the game they give away will magically appear out of no where, then in that case there is nothing to worry about.

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Well , first of all there is the risk that you waste all of your luck on them ... and never win a legit giveaway :)

Now with all seriousness , The only thing you lose is points ... since even if deleted you dont get them back .
Aside of that ... you dont lose anything .

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Seeing a lot of posts by you lately, and all helpful. Whitelisted.

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To much spare time lately... nothing to do with it :)

Wouldnt really call my nonsense helpfull all the time , but glad you think so :D

And thanks for whitelisting me , i did the same to you my friend :)

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By the way: were there any non-invite, non-group, sub level 5 GTA V giveaways that were actually legit? So sort of actually public legit giveaways?

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Well, I just checked my list on entry and there were an awful lot of red text, so I was sceptical. But I believe you. :)

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yes, during past three month there were at least 9 non-invite, non-group, sub level 5 legit giveaways. Out of ≈25 that I've entered.

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You might win.

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+69

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this..

especially if u won GTA V or any AAA games

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Except for the points you can only lose something, if someone add you, and he get's you to visit a phishing site or so on, but this coud happen everywhere, and if you just think a litle bit about what you do, you'll be fine.

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Ebola.

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Yes, you will lose all your points (if you win or if it is deleted) because the refund system still doesn't work as intended.
EDIT: Also be careful around people who tend to sloppily delete duplicate giveaways without warning, as even unintentionally, any deletes refund no points.
Which also creates the unfortunate side effect that users have to judge by themselves whether a giveaway is reasonably legit before entering it, as opposed to being able to freely enter everything and have site+admins sort things out in the end.

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amen

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Well, I would be sad if I would win GTA V and then actually not get the game because the creator didn't read the faq or used its brain. It's just a huge disappointment (even with smaller games), so that's the only "danger" there is.

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