Group Advertisement then Deleted Giveaway

Eventually they run out of slots... But that might not happen if they also give cheap game keys...

If it can be proven, I guess it would fall under the category of a fake giveaway and they would get a 5 day suspension. If they continue to do it and they get reported, they would probably get permanently banned.

It might be hard to prove they are doing it on purpose though unless the same user does it multiple times because it could have been an honest mistake if it is the first time.

Edit: If you suspect a certain user and know what giveaways they deleted, you can check to see if archive.org has the giveaway description archived before they deleted it or if they do it again, you can manually make an archive there. I'm not sure if support has the ability to see what the description said on deleted giveaways. If they can, it would be easier to just report the user and then they could look at their previous deleted giveaways to see if there is a pattern.

they gather enough people in their steam group and discord and then delete the giveaways. 2 groups and 3 different people i've noticed so far with a 4th person soon to do the same.

i noticed this too with Victoria 3 and now Hogwarts Legacy, bot deleted because of region restrictions and then to never re-appear

If I remember correctly when highly sought after promotional giveaways turn out fake that's enough to warrent a permanent suspension without the usual 3 strike rule applying.

I mean easily accessible giveaways for big ticket games like Jedi Survivor, The Last of Us Part 1
and Hogwarts Legacy draw in lots of new people to the site. If they turn out fake it just confirms their initial suspicion this site is a scam and they'll never come back.

It was done in the past and since the black sheeps gets hunted much lesser, and the mods not handle user report tickets (because junior mods can't and from the rest not much do something -dif. reasons- [don't see my words as a attack on all of them...]), this behavior spread.
Mostly the same few people/groups (partly with 2 or 3 accounts for the same group.... [Coincidence -coughing coughing-].

Not much happened in the past in such cases because it was difficult to see a evidence for the fact that someone done the GA from the begin as fake GA and not "some problem came up since the creation".

In the end, blacklist such users, leave/don't enter that groups, safe your lifetime and move on.

Or hope that PeteOzzy make a 3rd time a account and join a 3rd time the mods ranks and/or hope that Gaffi, Eefrit or one of the other good mods, that done 90% of the work here on sg, get a energy + mood boost to handle all the bad stuff (which will burn them out again very fast).
But most likely only the blabla mods, that chat """much""" and do nearly nothing (at least nothing helpful), will be around but surprise surprise do nothing.