Contact steam about a gift

[Blanket]

I got a notif email saying my gift was accepted. The gift was not made by me. I took the measures needed incase someone had access to my account.

I also noticed that there where not any purchases made, meaning I was not charged anything for the gift.

I'm confused on how this can even happen and how can I inform steam of this?

For a bit of specifics, this all happened today and the game was with "don't starve together". I already own it and still do. Also nothing showing up on my purchase history just the gift being accepted in my email and steam account.

[Symche]

Hello, if you receive a Steam email claiming a gift was accepted but you don't remember sending one, it's likely a scam. Scammers often impersonate Steam to trick users into revealing personal information or credentials.
Here's a more detailed breakdown and what to do:

Why it's likely a scam:

Impersonation: Scammers try to look like legitimate Steam emails to gain your trust.
Information Gathering: They might be trying to steal your Steam account credentials or other personal data.
Trade Scams: In some cases, they might offer you a gift and then try to scam you into trading items or sending money.

There was a gift but you dont remember?

There is a option that there was a gift of "Don't Starve Together" game. Because when you buy the game, game grants you a gift card in your inventory that you can send to your friends as a gift. Maybe you have done that in some point of time and the friend needed alot of time to find out that he got gifted a game. Because the notifications sometimes dont show and unless you manualy go and see you will never know its there.


If you press the link below you will see that next to "Add to cart" button it says : "Includes an extra copy of Don't Starve Together. Send it to a friend!"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322330/

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Blanket:

I got a notif email saying my gift was accepted. The gift was not made by me. I took the measures needed incase someone had access to my account.

I also noticed that there where not any purchases made, meaning I was not charged anything for the gift.

I'm confused on how this can even happen and how can I inform steam of this?

For a bit of specifics, this all happened today and the game was with "don't starve together". I already own it and still do. Also nothing showing up on my purchase history just the gift being accepted in my email and steam account.

https://steamcommunity.com/my/tradehistory/
If you go to your Trade History, does it show a gift copy of Starve Together being sent to someone?

[Boatman Pat]

gotcha thanks

[Blanket]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by Blanket:

I got a notif email saying my gift was accepted. The gift was not made by me. I took the measures needed incase someone had access to my account.

I also noticed that there where not any purchases made, meaning I was not charged anything for the gift.

I'm confused on how this can even happen and how can I inform steam of this?

For a bit of specifics, this all happened today and the game was with "don't starve together". I already own it and still do. Also nothing showing up on my purchase history just the gift being accepted in my email and steam account.

https://steamcommunity.com/my/tradehistory/
If you go to your Trade History, does it show a gift copy of Starve Together being sent to someone?

No it does not. But it's likely that and my account was somehow compromised. Because I see the gift in the gifting history but not any purchases

[Blanket]

Originally posted by Symche:

Hello, if you receive a Steam email claiming a gift was accepted but you don't remember sending one, it's likely a scam. Scammers often impersonate Steam to trick users into revealing personal information or credentials.
Here's a more detailed breakdown and what to do:

Why it's likely a scam:

Impersonation: Scammers try to look like legitimate Steam emails to gain your trust.
Information Gathering: They might be trying to steal your Steam account credentials or other personal data.
Trade Scams: In some cases, they might offer you a gift and then try to scam you into trading items or sending money.

There was a gift but you dont remember?

There is a option that there was a gift of "Don't Starve Together" game. Because when you buy the game, game grants you a gift card in your inventory that you can send to your friends as a gift. Maybe you have done that in some point of time and the friend needed alot of time to find out that he got gifted a game. Because the notifications sometimes dont show and unless you manualy go and see you will never know its there.


If you press the link below you will see that next to "Add to cart" button it says : "Includes an extra copy of Don't Starve Together. Send it to a friend!"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/322330/

Unfortunately someone genuinely got into my account lol. It's happened to me lately with facebook and paypal as well. I'm genuinely comfused cause I haven't interacted with any shady sites or anything and I've scanned my devices for any malware but it's genuinely a mystery to me. So I'm just making sure I have as many security mesures I can. Like not linking any bank accounts for example.