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Is it possible to safely "give away" a Steam account to a stranger?

I'm pretty sure I'm done with Steam gaming, haven't launched a game in almost a year, and generally want to move away from DRM.
So I had the idea I could just "give away" my Steam account.

Create a new email address without personal info attached, tie it to the Steam account, remove my payment info from Steam and just post the email and password somewhere (maybe here) for the first lucky person to claim.

Would that be safe, or is it possible to recover the changes I made before and get access to my private info? Or is there a better way to give away my games?

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  • Be careful and double / triple check on https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata what information is stored on your account, especially chats, payment information, purchases, subscriptions and so on. But I agree regarding TOS if they ever find out the account will be locked most likely.

  • Don't post accounts or keys online. Bots are a million times faster in soaking this data up, it's guaranteed no human who could deserve it, will get it. Make a post, pick some one at random and direct message them. Still a chance for multi accounting but less than just posting it online.

  • I‘d refrain from posting it openly as it may be monitored by valve if credentials of accounts surface somewhere. A bit far fetched but I‘d just make the first person who answers a specific post or whatever.

  • Your Steam account is tied to backed up cloud saves. I wouldn't just give away the account to a complete stranger. Also Steam's EULA forbids it, so any problem might lead to the account being closed.

    I would only give my account to trusted people.

  • This is done all the time to sell games that aren't available as CD keys, against TOS.

    The seller usually gives you a login to a webmail they control, and the account is tied to that email. You can then change the email on the account and you have access to the original email to confirm the move.

  • Double triple check everything and let a friend try to dig around... Befor posting your Infos make a post and chose a random comment or so. This way you can verify it's not a bot

  • Give me LOL I don't care about your history or something. Even you can have mine I have nothing in it.

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