Nothing in life is free, unless you're talking about Jury service and the Ebola virus. While this is a commonly accepted truth, human logic is almost always overridden by the promise of a freebie. If you're tempted to override that logic for the free copy of Far Cry 2 being "gifted" on Steam, then think again. It's all bollocks.
A new phishing scheme has been unleashed upon Steam users, offering a "free gift" of Ubisoft's first person shooter in exchange for you logging into a fake Steam community site and unwittingly handing all your information over to the wankers behind the curtain.
If you get mail from support@steampowered.com telling you that you've been gifted a free game from Valve, you don't need me to tell you that it should be printed out and used to wipe your arse. It's typical anti-phish 101 -- don't put any login information on any site clicked through from an unsolicited email. That should keep you pretty safe.
Valve support won't ever ask for your account information, and you should recognize the official Steam community URL as https://steamcommunity.com/. Anything that deviates from the address is rubbish.
Oh, and the biggest clue of all -- not even Valve is this generous.
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6:40 PM on 01.26.2009
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Now, I just got to send back half...
PO Box 666
Mianus, Epeensylvaynia
Also, cocks.
They might catch more people that way :)
(I mean, I'll give you the snaps if you really want 'em... I'm pretty impressed with how a few of 'em turned out. Just, y'know, no account info.)
Not only that but when you click on a url in the chat window you get a nice pop up in your face that says do not give out your login info if the weblink your clicking asks for it. So if you ignore both those warnings you are truly a fucking moron and deserve to have your account stolen.