NEW SCAM - When a giveaway ends, ONLY send it to the email that the site gives you.

Did you tell this to CG? /edits the SG rules >:D

That means people that were the actual winner didn't get it? dang XC

This is a real shame. I hope the banhammer cometh.

Eh. My first giveaway ends in 15 minutes. I thought I can contact the winner via steam using the link in his steamgift profile.

I remember seeing a couple of giveaways where the creators would post saying to the winner add them to Steam to receive the gift when it ends. I don't think that's a good idea because that type of thing will happen if the creator don't pay attention at all.

Why on earth would you not send it to somewhere besides the winning email? I guess it would look pretty convincing if someone with the same screen name and avatar added you as a friend. I would pry just block a guy that desperate to get his gift though anyway.

Sending it to the email should be the ONLY way you get a gift if you win, it's practically fool proof for both parties.

Sometimes I think man is a really cunning animal...

i'd say hide the name of the winner from public until the gift has been marked as received/not received

Most of the people don't read the forums, imo, which is bad. Maybe there could be some announcement tab, which would show little "1" on top of it, when there's some important message from mods/admins? (I mean up there, with Home, Create a Giveaway etc)

Cheaters make me RAGEEE!

God damn Russians! I'm kidding, I'm kidding! I'm not on that bandwagon... shifty eyes

It's true that someone scammed that Skyrim gift?

Tell the gifter to contact steam support and explain the whole thing. I'm sure they will have no problem returning the gift and removing the game from that scammer.

I hope the people who are doing this are getting banned.

Rrr... Rrr... Rrr...

RAAAAAAAAGE!!!!

Ugh, I don't even, that is just low.
I mean I don't understand why someone would send it to a different address but I guess some people are more trusting, but seriously fuck the scammers.
I back GVBN's idea for winners to not be publicly viewable until they have marked their gift as received or not received, though such a thing shouldn't even need to be implemented in the first place.

I actually had someone try do that to me about 12 hours ago. Lo and behold, also Russian. Good thing I've had a lot of experience with scammers in the past, when doing real money trades in TF2.

Should we be sending their SteamCommunity ID64 to you guys, or what?