Gifting through Email or Steam Message

[76561198169216537]

Greetings Community,

I have a general question about sending gifts through Steam.

Aside from trading directly, there are two options to send a gift. One is "Email my gift" and the other is "Send my gift directly through Steam". Both options mention that an email message will be sent to the recipient's email address.

My question is, if I use either option above to send a gift to my friend, does my own email address associated with my Steam account show up in the email message? I am asking this because I do not want to show my email address due to privacy and security reasons.

Thank you for your help.

[76561198169216537]

Anyone?

[WhereIsBusmin]

Originally posted by IronGamer:

Greetings Community,

I have a general question about sending gifts through Steam.

Aside from trading directly, there are two options to send a gift. One is "Email my gift" and the other is "Send my gift directly through Steam". Both options mention that an email message will be sent to the recipient's email address.

My question is, if I use either option above to send a gift to my friend, does my own email address associated with my Steam account show up in the email message? I am asking this because I do not want to show my email address due to privacy and security reasons.

Thank you for your help.

From what I remember, it does not show your email address - just your Steam profile name.

[WhereIsBusmin]

Nevermind. I tested it and it did post my email address.

[76561198169216537]

Originally posted by WhereIsBusmin:

Nevermind. I tested it and it did post my email address.

Which way did you use, emailing the gift or Steam messaging the gift?

[76561198169216537]

Does anyone else know?

[WhereIsBusmin]

Originally posted by IronGamer:

Originally posted by WhereIsBusmin:

Nevermind. I tested it and it did post my email address.

Which way did you use, emailing the gift or Steam messaging the gift?

Both (email + send through Steam).

[76561198169452250]

sss

[Thanh]

:yay: ty

[Gana]

Just send it through steam, you pick the person from your friends list and it goes to their account. You can put a message on it too, if you want.

[simulaKRUM]

but it will say 'already redeemed' whatever you do anyway

[DrunkGrizzly]

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[PurpleBlurpL]

>>does my own email address associated with my Steam account show up in the email message

Yes, it does (even when you send it through steam). I found out the hard way when I gave two users gifts and it sent an email to their linked email account informing them that [e-mail] had given them a gift. I've submitted a ticket just like many others users, but it doesn't seem Valve is interested in fixing this.

Despite what other users may tell you, this _is_ a security hole. If you have steam guard enabled, your e-mail is a point of failure for a security attack, and so the fact that giving a user a gift exposes credential information, is frankly incredible to me.

I would recommend you don't gift any users who don't already know your email address gifts. I hope Valve eventually realizes this could be a significant use case that could drive revenue for them.