Suspicious Account won a giveaway. What to do

Maybe you should select the "Request New Winner" option?

give him the game,he got lucky,either if he won't play it he won it..

Something similar for me.
Ask reroll. Support don't tell you if was approved. Just wait a few days check if the winner is different.

Wow, glad I didn't win anything from you when I started getting back into PC gaming after quite a number of years.
Dec 2004 - Half-life 2 Collector's edition which showed unplayed till recently re-played it.
Next game added was Jul 2013.

It might be worth noting that Steam only started tracking the amount of time a game has been played a few years ago. So if it's an older account that hasn't been played since before that change, it won't show any time played (for example I'm sure I played hundreds of hours of Team Fortress Classic, but Steam doesn't show it since it was too long ago).

That said, although it's certainly possible that someone found steamgifts.com, remembered they had a steam account from years ago, went and activated it and then entered and won your giveaway, it seems kind of unlikely. I'd be more inclined to think that someone had a secondary account for some reason and they're using it as a second steamgifts.com account to enter more giveaways.

I don't know if there's an easy way to know for sure - are any of the games in the account fairly new? Like, released after 2011?
If not, you could always do a scientific test: give him the game (make sure he marks it as received), then see if it gets activated on his account. If so he's probably legit, but if not then odds are it's someone's secondary account and it should be banned from steamgifts. Unfortunately you're out a game though (unless you want to do something sneaky like buy a cheap key, give them that, then see if it gets activated or not before giving them the real game).

Anyway, hope that helps a little, good luck!

Has the winner been online recently? I'd recommend adding them, if so, and asking them about it. If they don't accept or don't talk to you, I'd ask for a re-roll.

Why don't you go ahead and try to contact the winner, he should know best about his account

My account is going on ten years and it looks bare because I've only played 'Mafia 2' since they started tracking use.

Best contact the winner would be my advice.

I can sympathize with your concerns. It definitely feels fishy and wrong but not sure if there's anything you can do just on suspicions =/

its my mult. Its OK.

secondary account? your giveaway have CV ? next time use CV.. so you will not pass for this..

Also if you play games in offline mode unless they've changed it recently it doesn't keep track of how long you play.

Just send in a re-roll request if you think it might be an alternate account. If we find something, we'll get you a new winner. If not, we'll let you know.

Suspicion alone is not a legitimate reason to punish someone.

You do realize he could be playing in offline mode which doesn't record hours played.

I have 50 games in my account, but most of them are just played for few minutes, that's because I'm really bussy. BTW, I don't trade much, so there's not many items in my inventory. Also, maybe he's just using Steam to play a specific game, Like I use Origin just because I got the Humble Origin Bundle. Not everyone has to be a "Steam tycoon", right?

Heh for all you know he does his gaming when there's no internet around so Steam doesn't record his playtime. I've done this for quite a few games and hell, The Walking Dead will crash on me if I play it with an active connection! -_-

Give him his 7 days.

Offline mode.

If I'm gifting on Steam Gifts, I'd give it to the suspicious account. If I really cared who got something, I wouldn't give it away here. I'd give it to someone I knew.

If it's worth it to you, refuse this gift even if SG staff say no to a re-roll. Don't take my suggestion as gospel though. You need to do what you feel is right.

Thinking he has multiple accounts?