What is a steam gift. What is Amazon Gift Cards. What causes the purchase of gifts from steam from scammers
Any player hopes to get a gift from Steam with a game at the lowest price, but most often offers to purchase gift games at a price 2-5 times cheaper than from an official representative turn out to be a scam.
Gift is a copy of a licensed game that can be given to another player as a gift (Gift is translated as "gift"). Gifts usually cost less than keys to a licensed game, and scammers use this situation to deceive beginners and gullible users.
Steam(steam) is an online store that sells copies of games, gifts at store.steampowered.com/ . This is an official representation, when purchasing Gifts, you should be guided by the prices indicated on this site, because. sales at prices significantly lower than those indicated on it are carried out exclusively by scammers.
Where do scammers get GIFs from Steam and why are they cheap
In order to get gifts for their further sale, scammers commit a crime, the essence of which is the theft of bank card data and their subsequent use for payment for digital goods unauthorized by the owner of the card. Illegally acquired Gifts are further sold through websites and groups in social networks created by scammers.
What causes the purchase of gifts from steam from scammers
Gifts from scammers are stolen copies of games. No matter how scammers justify the appearance of Gifts in them, the purpose of such an explanation is to sell Gifts from Steam to users, and they are not shy about lying. Phrases such as high turnover on Steam entail discounts on purchases (for wholesale), the appearance on the internal wallet of substantial amounts on Steam, for which games are purchased, etc. can be used. It's a lie! The user is trying to sell stolen goods.
After the purchase, the gift comes to the account, the deceived buyer starts using it as a user, but after a while the game stops functioning. This happens when the owner of the bank card, at the expense of which the fraudsters purchased the game at full cost on Steam, detects an illegal debit on his card and cancels the payment. He gets his money back and gif stops working. This can happen both a few months and a few hours after the acquisition.
Fraudsters sometimes give a guarantee for their goods and in cases where such a situation occurs, they replace the Gift with a new one. Those. if one owner of a bank card detects a write-off, then the buyer is given a new gift purchased at the expense of another owner. And even these promises to replace one stolen item with another are not credible. After all, the guarantee is given by a scammer!
How to identify fraudulent sites with gifts from steam
If you have no desire to use stolen gifts, risking being left without your money, but having participated in this not the most exciting fraud, you should not take seriously sites that knowingly sell illegally obtained gifts:
- sale of gifts on the website, much cheaper (2-3 times) than on the official Steam website - the first sign of fraud: no one will be engaged in such charity;
- the explanation of the low price by the fact that the Gifts were purchased in bulk is a hoax;
- the story that the low cost of gifts is due to the acquisition for another country - a lie, such a gift is illegal to sell and even use in another region - it will be withdrawn;
- the presence of a guarantee for the exchange of a gift withdrawn from an account for another is a 100% signal that these are scammers: gifts are not simply recalled, only stolen, and they are not replaced by others - this is just a trick of scammers.
I bought a gift from scammers - became an accomplice?
Suppose, for some reason, the buyer decided to purchase a gift from scammers at a low price, realizing the risk of losing money. There is another interesting aspect: the purchase of stolen goods, if the buyer is aware that the goods were obtained by an illegal method, automatically makes it accomplice of a crime under Art. 175 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation(buyer knowingly helps criminals
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Everyone probably knows such a thing as a Gift Card. With the help of this magical piece of plastic (well, or a code, if we talk about virtual cards), you can instantly solve the problem of choosing a gift for a birthday, wedding, March 8, February 23, etc. and so on. You buy a card of a certain denomination, hand it to the lucky owner, and calmly go to the banquet.
As a matter of fact, it also offers similar cards - Amazon Gift Card
, any denomination up to $2000 inclusive.
What is Amazon Gift Cards?
An Amazon gift card is either a physical piece of plastic or a digital code, by entering which in your account you will receive the corresponding card denomination to your account. This card can be received either as a gift from Amazon itself, or from your friends for the holiday, or as a reward from third-party resources on the Internet (but more on that in the next article).
This is what the Card list looks like in my account:
Naturally, the card can be purchased through the online store itself by paying the appropriate denomination. Ee can be printed on any material with any logo, including your photos, making it indispensable for all sorts of holidays and surprises. Everything is limited only by your imagination.
And of course, Amazon Gift Cards can be spent on absolutely any product in this store. Do not forget that the cost of goods on Amazon is several times cheaper than in any Russian online mall, plus delivery to the Russian Federation and the CIS of some groups of goods is possible. All this makes gift cards from the most famous and popular online supermarket on the planet a very profitable purchase and the most desired gift.
I'll tell you a little secret, you can get Gift Cards from Amazon for free, that is, without investing your money! How to do this, read in my next article and of course subscribe to the rss newsletter!
When you buy a game on Steam, you have the option to gift it to anyone on your Steam friends list. The recipient will receive a nice e-card with a personalized message from you and instructions on how to activate the donated product.
You can only gift a specific Steam purchase once. After activation and installation by the addressee, the game cannot be returned or donated again. You can donate games only upon purchase. You cannot gift games that are in your library. You can't just wrap it in gift paper and give away your microwave that you've been using for a year.
How do I buy a game as a gift for another Steam user?
To gift a game to a friend or family member, search for the game in the Steam store and click the Add to Cart button . On the calculation screen, select "Buy as a gift".
Gift recipient selection
If you select "Buy as a gift", you will be shown a list of friends on Steam. Of these, you can choose to whom to send your gift. If you want to send a gift to someone who is not on the list, you will have to add them as a friend. This is to make sure the gift reaches the right person.
Can the gift be delivered later?
Once you have selected the friend you want to send a gift to, you can click on the button "Delay delivery..." to select a future delivery date. When the appointed time will come, we will automatically send a gift to your friend, as well as an email to you informing you that your gift has been delivered.
Payment Methods
Steam currently accepts the following payment methods. Please print and save the receipt after each payment. You will receive a copy of your receipt confirming your purchase by email.
What follows after sending a gift?
Your friend will receive an email notifying them that the gift has been received and containing your personal message. In addition, your friend will receive a message about the gift in the Steam client.
How can I check if my gift has arrived?
You can check the status of your gifts on your Inventory page. Also, you can check it in your Steam client. To do this, in the main menu, click "Games", and then select "Gift and Guest Pass Management...".
When a gift is sent to a friend, they will have the choice to accept or reject it. When a friend makes a decision, we will send you an email about it. If the friend decides not to do anything with the gift, after 30 days we will automatically cancel the purchase of the gift and refund your money.
How do I activate a gift sent to me?
If you are not already registered with Steam, download it and then install it. As soon as you do this, you will be prompted to create a new account or log in using an existing one. If you don't have a Steam account yet, please register.
2. Once you click on this notification, you will be presented with a confirmation window where you can either accept or decline the gift. After clicking the "Accept" button, the gift will be immediately added to your library.
In case you choose "Reject", we will refund the money to the person who originally sent the gift. When you decline a gift, you can write a message to the sender. Whether or not you write this message, the sender will receive an email that the gift has been declined.
3. When you add a game to your library, it will be listed in list of your games Steam. Click "Install" to download it and start playing.
If you already have this game in your library, you will be notified and will not be able to add it.
If you don't already have this game, you will receive a pop-up notification asking you to confirm your actions. If you redeem a pack that contains games that you already have on your account, you will be warned that you will not receive additional copies of those games:
If you try to add an add-on that requires the base game that you don't own, you'll get an error:
Questions about gifts
Do gifts have an expiration date?
After the gift is delivered to a friend, he has 30 days to accept it. When the gift is accepted, the game is permanently added to the Steam account.
How do I explain to someone who doesn't know Steam how to send me a gift?
To purchase a gift through Steam, simply create an account and then purchase the gift from the Steam store. For more information on buying games on Steam, please see this article.
Don't let anyone else buy gifts from your account.
How will my friend know about the gift received?
Your friend will receive an email and a notification that they have received the gift in the Steam client.
Can I gift games to users from other countries?
Regional restrictions are indicated on the game page in the store.
Steam Support is unable to change or remove these restrictions.
Can I donate game packs?
Yes, you can donate entire bundles of games just like single games. You can not give only sets for four.
How can I check if my friend has the game I'm going to gift?
Users whose accounts you have added to your Steam friends list will be automatically filtered from the list of possible gift recipients if they already own the game. You can also find out what games your friend has by going to their Steam Community profile and selecting "All Games".
Where can I see the history of my gifts?
To view the history of your gifts, go to your inventory, click on "New Gifts", and then on the "View Gift History" button:
Can I get a refund for a gift?
You can return funds for any gift if it was purchased no more than 14 days ago, and the recipient of the gift played the game for less than 2 hours. See for more information.
Hi all! Today we will talk about what is Gift in Steam. After reading this article, you will learn about what a Gift is and what you can do with it.
Gift (Gift)- this, if translated into Russian, is a gift that is needed to activate a particular game in your Steam account. It looks like an image and is stored in the account's main inventory.
Here is an example of GIFs in Steam:
With Gifts, you can store games in your account without activating them (without adding them to your library), but the main purpose of Gifts is that you can send them to your friends by email or directly to their account, which you can’t do with already activated games.
Basically, Gifts were created just for this, so that you can easily and simply transfer purchased games to other people. But many users, for the purpose of profit, decided to take advantage of this and created online stores where they began to sell gifts at a reduced price, buying them during the sale, which is often held in Steam. But now is not about that.
Where can I get Gifts? Alternatively, you can buy them from the same online stores that I mentioned above. But Gifts can also be obtained in the Steam itself by selecting the desired option when purchasing a particular game. I already wrote about this with my article "", and if you are interested, you can follow the link and read it.
Also, it is worth noting that there are two types of GIFs: with restrictions And no limits.
In the first case, the Gift can be activated only if you live in a certain country, which is indicated in the description. You can identify such a Gift by the exclamation mark, as well as by the presence of red text on the right side of the window:
In the second case, the Gift can be activated in any country in the world and will not depend on your place of residence.
Therefore, if you do not live in the CIS, then when buying a gift, look at what type it belongs to. Otherwise, you can waste money for the reason that I wrote about above.
You have learned about what a Gift is in Steam, and now let's look at a couple more questions that are related to Gifts. And let's start, perhaps, with a fundamental question, namely, how to activate the Gift in Steam.
How to activate Gift in Steam
In order to activate Gift Steam, you need to go to the inventory of your account, where all the background images, icons, and other files that you have ever received are located. There are also Gifts themselves.
Select the desired Gift and in the right part of the window, click on the inscription " Add to Library":
After that, by confirming the action, you can add the Gift to your account library. As you can see, everything is simple.
How to send a gift to another user on Steam
If you want to transfer a gift to another user, then first click on the desired gift, then, in the right part of the window, click on the corresponding button " Send":
You will see a new window with two options:
Using the first option, you can send a gift to your friend by mail. To do this, enter your friend's email address and click the " Further".
Using the second option, you can poison the Gift, but not to the mail, but to your friend's Steam account itself. By ticking this option, a list of all your friends will appear below, from which you will need to select the one to whom you want to send the gift. Having done this, click on the " Further" to start sending the Gift.
Today you learned about what a Gift is in Steam, and also got acquainted with two fundamental issues that are associated with the use of Gifts. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask them in the comments.
