Steam Winter Sale 2021 Arrives, Beware of Scams!
At the end of the year, many holidays of course. Especially before Christmas and New Years. Holiday moments like that, for sellers of goods and services, are used as moments to reap profits through the sale of goods and services through the application of discounted promotions. Of course almost all industries, and brands do. For the gaming industry, one of the players who did this was Valve with the Steam brand being highlighted. This brand always carries out a discount strategy every year, which in the end becomes the spotlight for PC game lovers. The year-end promo in question is Steam Winter Sale 2021.
Steam Winter Sale Event
According to the official Steam blog, the Steam Winter Sale 2021 promo will start on December 20 local time. By adjusting the time in Indonesia, the discount promotion from Steam will occur on December 21, 2021 or today when this article is published. The release of this promotion was also accompanied by the 2021 Steam Awards which took place on the same date. The Steam Winter Sale will last until January 4, 2021 at 1 am Pacific time or January 4, 2021 at 16.00 WIB.
Steam Winter Sale 2021 is a moment to buy legal PC games cheaply that PC game lovers rarely miss. Usually, PC game lovers will make a mistake and buy a lot of Steam games in the promotional moments later this year. Because of such actions, many criminals use this promotional moment as a field to gain their illicit money.
Phishing Steam Winter Sale
The Steam version of Harbolnas has been targeted by many criminals every year. 2021 is the same. Not a few criminals who take advantage of this moment to steal data and cheat. Based on the testimony of netizens of Steam users summarized by @TurnBackHoax, there are many phishing webs created under the name Steam. On the phishing site, there was an invitation from the fake Steam party to exchange the code or some kind of points that had been provided for a free gift card. However, the process for registering the gift card makes Steam users potentially have their data stolen.
The @TurnBackHoax FB page also summarizes the observations of Indonesian Facebook netizens under the account name Rama Alifiandy. He monitored the Steam Winter Sale 2021 phishing event. His observations led to the conclusion that it is easy to distinguish the genuine Steam site from the fake one.
First, Steam users should be aware that Steam promotions are only done on the official website. Second, the Steam manager does not use other domain extensions, such as .org in carrying out its promotion strategy. Third, fake sites do not have a login button to enter Steam. Fourth, the most recent Steam site copyright is 2021, if anything below 2021, it is confirmed to be fake. Fifth, the Steam manager has never officially distributed gift cards. Sixth, the rest of the code obtained does not make sense.
What Rama Alifiandy said, and echoed by @TurnBackHoax to stay vigilant in shopping during the Steam Winter Sale, should be observed and absorbed by friends who love Steam games who are planning to shop at this moment. In essence, happy shopping with high vigilance.
That’s the article about hoax news and fraud that occurred during the 2021 Steam Winter Sale. Don’t forget to keep an eye on the Kabar Games website for those of you who always want to find the latest news and articles about gadgets, games, anime and social media.
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