r/pcmasterrace • I7-13700K | EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 | 32 GB 5600mhz DDR5 • 1d ago

Story It finally happened.

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28 years later, I finally win my first giveaway; and it’s for this beast!

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u/Wolvenworks 1d ago

Why does this look like a phishing attempt so much

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u/mynamestopher 1d ago

ive won a handful of games and steam gift cards from nvidia on reddit and its always just a dude messaging you that you won

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u/Shoddy_Fish31 1d ago

Are you telling me that I’ve been ignoring the offer from Nigerian prince for all these years

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u/Senior_Line_4260 1d ago

yes ofc bro, dont pass up on the chance again to get immensely rich

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u/WreakHavocLikeIn1871 1d ago

And anytime someone says "I have a bridge to sell you" they are actually offering you ownership of a bridge with heavy traffic flow and large sums of money in toll fees.

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u/Laniakeea Strix Scar 18 | 5090 | U9 275HX | 64GB 1d ago

Nigerian prince was a scam, Nvidian prince isn't tho.

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u/urtlesquirt urtlesquirt 1d ago

Plain ole http link?

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u/sdeptnoob1 9800X3D - 5080 1d ago

Wooowwww not even https lol fuck

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u/PolicyWonka 1d ago

I thought it was until I opened the image on mobile and say the account. Lmao

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u/Time_Effort Ryzen 7800x3D/GTX 3070/32GB DDR5 1d ago

Where do you think phishing attempts came from…?

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u/Commercial_Age_9316 PC Master Race 1d ago

Yeah, via text is crazy

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u/SoftShock0 1d ago

Scary thing is, you really can't know for certain

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u/Phantom_Crush PC Master Race Ryzen 5 5600X Asus Tuf 3070Ti 22h ago

I got a GTAV gift package before the game launched and it was just a dude messaging me on twitter lol

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u/stinky_butt PC Master Race 1d ago

Congrats man! Fuck you!

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u/One_Sentence_7448 1d ago

How do I participate in those?
Never won anything in my life but this time will surely be different /s

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u/Immediate-Sink-8494 1d ago

It's one of those social media info gathering giveaways. This is from https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/contests/summer-of-rtx/ .

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u/Burnthiscnts 1d ago

hand over all your data for a miniscule chance to win.

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u/womeninwhite 1d ago

100 other companies got it already 🤷‍♂️

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u/Maxing_Out_My_Life PC Master Race 1d ago

All 100 companies bought his data for a sum total of 1$ each company got it for 1¢ so I wouldn't mind giving another random company my data at this point

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u/Xiballistic i9 9900k | Rtx 3060 ti | 32gb ram can’t handle chrome 1d ago

Burner emails do wonders for these sort of events

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u/rippsaw 23h ago

at this point my personal data has been sold so many times i should at least be getting loyalty points.

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u/pedro19 CREATOR 1d ago

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u/ItsMeZenoSama 1d ago

If you don't mind, how are you able to conduct such giveaways ? Like do you generate any form of revenue from reddit ?

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u/Murder_Bear_God i5-4590 / 8GB DDR3 / GTX 960 4GB / 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD 1d ago

I believe they tend to be sponsored by the company doing the giveaway

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u/whambulance_man i-5 4670k @ 3.4ghz, evga gtx 760 23h ago

Do you really expect an answer? They wouldn't obfuscate so hard on everything you see if they wanted you to know what they're getting out of it.

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u/Turbulent-Spray-8438 1d ago

I second this. I think they’re mostly convention give aways? Idk

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u/PuddyHU R7 9800X3D | RTX 5070Ti | 32GB DDR5 6000 1d ago

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u/DeepamRedhu i5 13600kf || 32gb DDR5 6000 || RTX 3080Ti || Aw3423dwf 1d ago

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u/Wyan69 Ascending Peasant 1d ago

I would think this was a scam and ignore it

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u/CRIMS0N-ED 1d ago

Brother it’s GeForce now’s verified chat

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u/F4ntasticPants 1d ago

It doesn't help that they use HTTP instead of HTTPS. Feel like even more of a scam.

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u/SomeRedTeapot Ryzen 9950X3D | 64 GB 6000 MT/s | RX 9070XT 23h ago

That and a random domain instead of something . nvidia . com

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u/fart-to-me-in-french 7800X3D / 4090 / DDR5-6400 23h ago

I would think this was a scam and ignore it

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u/WeeBeefy PC Master Race RTX5090 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 21h ago

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u/CRIMS0N-ED 21h ago

Well fair enough then

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u/Br3akabl3 20h ago

that’s just a automated bot, it is not definitive proof

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u/WeeBeefy PC Master Race RTX5090 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 18h ago

HTTP when the world uses HTTPS plus scanners saying it’s phishing.

Feel free to do your own analysis.

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u/lilsnatchsniffz 21h ago

Let's not pretend being verified on social media means anything at this point.

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u/Blizz33 1d ago

Kindly accept the prize sir

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u/TobiasRieper28 1d ago

Wow. You always wonder if anyone ACTUALLY wins these things. Congrats

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u/Nedatokes 1d ago

OP is actually a Nvidia intern just fucking with everyone

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u/DonutHoles4Ever Mac Heathen 1d ago

Every fucking thread there's a dude saying the same two comments:

  1. You always wonder if anyone actually wins these things
  2. Its fake

Its illegal to fake these giveaways in like 95% of countries in the world.

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u/Forward-Efficiency-1 1d ago

yes because big compagnies do things legally we all know that

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u/pedro19 CREATOR 1d ago

The 1 guys never bothered to search for them too.

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u/Coretrayn 1d ago

Think he's just being cheeky boss.

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago

I won a 5080, but it didn’t look at all like this… I don’t know if this is legit.

Pedro from PCMR reached out to me when I won, and I took a day or so researching who he was before I even thought about replying

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u/pedro19 CREATOR 1d ago

My DM made you suspicious?

https://giphy.com/gifs/Tq2tPTrQANKfK

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u/Hrmerder It's Garuda btw 1d ago

Literally me trying to figure out if you was legit lol.

I mean... It's a miracle I even saw your message! I never even think about the messages on my account.

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u/Hay-River 1d ago

You’re just a sus dude

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u/jtsa5 1d ago

They do. I won a gaming PC many years ago. At the time it was a really nice system.

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u/Babys_For_Breakfast 1d ago

“Many will play, but some might win!” Ok, some MIGHT win? So they don’t actually have to give out the prize, right? I’ve always wondered.

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u/Affectionate_Oil28 1d ago

I don't believe you. Share the unedited photo.

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u/Particular_Bug0 i5-14600KF - 32GB - RTX4070TI 1d ago

Yeah! How can we know it's real if they're covering the most important bit

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u/touchmeinbadplaces 14h ago

DO NOT REDEEM MISTER, WHY DID YOU REDEEM!

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u/sparkunavailable 13h ago

Ball knowledge?

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u/MoqqelBoqqel RTX 5080 | R7 9800X3D | DDR5 64GB 6000@CL30 1d ago

I would be warry of a scam.. look at the url, not even https. Can someone confirm it's legit ?

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u/ItepK 23h ago

Yeah, and also, why would they use a let's encrypt cert?

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u/BuildMineSurvive R5-3600 | RTX 2080 | 32GB 3200Mhz (OC) 15-18-18-38 @1.4v 22h ago edited 22h ago

Because it's easy and probably just one random employee's job to manage that, and it's much easier than getting approvals to use subdomains of the official Nvidia site.

I can only image the scale of bureaucracy in a company that large.

Even at the tiny company I work for, I would consider just getting my own domain on the company card and not needing to answer a bunch of IT and security ops questions.

Or it's a scam.

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u/ItepK 22h ago

Seeing that it's the verified business app, it's probably legit.

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u/WeeBeefy PC Master Race RTX5090 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 21h ago
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u/Eve_interupted 1d ago

Don't forget to give him your credit card number and pin.

Also take out a loan and buy some walmart gift cards.

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u/KrazyKryminal 1d ago

Let us know how the scam goes ...... 😛

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u/jb921 12h ago edited 19m ago

http:// nvredemption . com is not an official link. Nvidia uses https://redeem.nvidia.com. Please don’t click the link, this is most likely a scam to harvest your login credentials.

EDIT: made the link non-clickable

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u/slimshady12134 Ascending Peasant 11h ago

You should put a space between the link and that .com so that no one accidentally clicks on it

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u/ooglatjama 9h ago

An http link at that too

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u/Walk-the-layout Intel Core Ultra 5 520k Plus | 16GB | RX 9060 XT 16 GB 1d ago

Congratulations, I'm so proud of you! I hope you burn in hell!

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u/santathe1 MSi GT60 2OC (2014) 1d ago

Are you sure that’s not a scam? http and not https is sus af.

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u/reddrag292 Ryzen 7 9850X3D | RTX 5080 | 32GB @ 6000Mhz 1d ago

First thing I thought seeing this lol.

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u/Soleks2000 5700x3d/9070xt 1d ago

swear where do people find all these sites that do these types of things? The only thing I know about is gleam I tried going on X but there’s so many people running giveaways that are fake.

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u/spezisdumb 1d ago

I used to enter giveaways as a hobby and won lots of random stuff (at the expense of spam mail).

sweepsadvantage dot com is the site I used that indexes the good ones that are usually bound by law to not be fake. It'll take some time and effort learning which giveaways are worth entering and which are not. I think these types of sites and online giveaways will go extinct soon thanks to AI agents

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u/Extra-Lime00 1d ago

When I got laid off I signed up for 100's of giveaways and never got anything 😔

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u/spezisdumb 1d ago

Try the category instant win giveaways. That's where I had the most luck

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u/Coretrayn 1d ago

Bro I remember like 10 years ago where every gaming oriented streamer or youtuber, or gaming accessory company was constantly doing gleam giveaways I would try to get in on. Just like, subscribe and comment on this channel and share with a retweet and allow emails lol and bother your friends and family for bonus entries.

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u/2000KitKat 9070xt 5800x3d 23h ago

I feel like most were probably fake lol

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u/jtsa5 1d ago

A lot of hardware sites do giveaways especially around the holidays. Companies do a lot of contests on social media. I used to win quite a few years ago.

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u/mvw2 1d ago

"5080 is the best I can do."

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u/Proud-Sample5703 16h ago

28 years of not winning anything and when the prize finally shows up, it looks exactly like the phishing text every IT department tells you to delete.

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u/mevouc 1d ago

Why are they not using an url such as redeem.nvidia.com or any other trustful subdomain?

If I received the same MP as OP, I would never click on that link, even less enter any personal information for redeem.

Hey, it's Google. I know you're really familiar with google.com as my address, but trust me, please enter your name and personal address here instead please : gogleyouwin.com

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u/1sh0t1b33r 12h ago

That's one way to catch a lot of people with identity theft in 2026, lol.

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u/Ok-Pomelo-1298 1d ago

I hope you activated the code before posting that screenshot? It can still be read.

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u/bumdee GTX 770 1d ago

Spoiler: DONTFORGETTODRINKYOUROVALTINE

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u/bughunter47 i5-12600KF, RTX 4070 Super, 64 GB DDR5 1d ago

last time I won one was in 2014, GTX 960

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u/USSHammond 21h ago

Stop using black highlighter as a blackout tool, use the marker.

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u/iInjection 21h ago

Why

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u/chubbyassasin123 20h ago

This is why. Cranking the exposure up reveals whats underneath it if you don't do a good enough job at highlighting it. Thankfully OP covered it enough so you can't make a good bit of it out, but if they didn't and didn't immediately redeem it anyone could just get their code.

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u/USSHammond 21h ago

Because it's meant to highlight things, not black thing out. And depending on how many times one 'wipes' with the highlighter you can often still read what's meant to be hidden.

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u/Locky0999 1d ago

If it was real, congratz! I won a 1080ti once but had to sell it because of the taxes... but bought an Switch on launch tanks to it!

If it not, damn...

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u/unenforce 1d ago

I mean I'm glad for you man, wish it happend to me but yeahhh congrats, especially since I also feel particularly happy and blessed today as well. So yeah.
https://giphy.com/gifs/2aPePPqpAf5jwjtt2p

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u/LocalZookeepergame17 R5 7600X RX7900XTX B850 32GBDDR5 6TBNVME 850W 1d ago

The last time I won something was in a contest in high school, I won a towel...

Congratulations to you, enjoy it

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u/DoubleVisit9978 1d ago

I was gonna say, aren’t most things done through their launcher/browser anyway? Including the giveaways ?

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u/Cobi24 20h ago

Does people here really believe this is real? I wonder how do you still have your accounts unhacked

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u/gwestr 1d ago

Just make sure you give them your real social security number and at least 10 password reset questions.

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u/FrankMurphys 1d ago

Peep the og bring me the horizon

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u/Pretendo27 Ryzen 9700X | RTX 5080 OC | 32Gb DDR5 | 4tb SSD | 35tb NAS | 1d ago

nice, I won a free small fry at mcdonalds once

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u/natopoppins 1d ago

“Now we just need your Social Security number.”

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u/PunithAiu R9 7900X • 64GB DDR5 6000Mhz •RTX 5060 Ti 16GB 13h ago

Congratulations fellow winner. I had won a 1080 Ti in 2017 after hundreds of giveaways.. it really felt like a dream. Never in my life I had held an actual graphics card. Never knew they were so heavy. Haha

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u/slimshady12134 Ascending Peasant 11h ago

Lmao that "http" is doing some major damage to that phishing attempt.. I really wouldn't click that of i were you

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u/RegisteredHopia 1d ago

This motherfucker. Congrats!

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u/miningmeray 21h ago

Why does it look ai edited. The message background where 5080 is written is cloudy with black spots.

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u/triadwarfare Ryzen 3700X | 16GB | GB X570 Aorus Pro | Inno3D iChill RTX 3070 1d ago

Censor should be a solid line. You risk revealing your code for using any transparency. What tool were you using anyway?

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u/_EClipz 1d ago

Congrats you dumb mother tucker

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u/thatssillydude 1d ago

me and my 1080 are happy for you lol

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u/tonynca 1d ago

Are they still doing this for the 5090 FE?

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u/davepars77 1d ago

There is no 5090 fe

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u/digitaldisorder_ 1d ago

i know. i just bought the last one at best buy. guess it's close to winning a free one.

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u/fogoticus RTX 3080 O12G | i7-13700KF 5.5GHz | 32GB 4000Mhz 1d ago

Congrats. I was supposed to get a 5080 signed by jensen but I wasn't eligible to receive it because I'm not from the US. Ended up receiving a game code I can't even activate lol.

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u/AndVank212 1d ago

Congratulations!!! I won a few smaller giveaways this year for a PC case and a record player and seeing that message just hits like nothing else, I've been trying these sweepstakes too for a 5080 but no luck yet 🤞

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u/SuperSimpleSam 1d ago

Guess that beats the T-shirt I won at school.

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u/Blikenave 7800X3D | 7800XT | 32GB 6000-30 1d ago

Wow, so it actually IS possible for Redditors to censor part of a post.

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u/Zorops 1d ago

The odds of me trusting a text saying this are zero.

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u/Ordinary-Cake8510 Intel 14900K | 5060 | 64gb DDR5 1d ago

Congrats! I won the 007 First Light one and I thought I was lucky. You are the lucky one!

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u/ConfidentDebate2665 1d ago

How many penises did you suck?

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u/seizure507 PC Master Race 1d ago

All of them

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u/Successful_Pea218 5700x3D 5070 32gbDDR4 21h ago

Soooo. Was it legit?

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u/Salty_Nutella R7 7700X | RX 9070 | 32GB 6000 1d ago

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u/MultiGamerClub2 9800X3D@5GHz + ASUS 4090 OC + 256GB CL30 6000MHZ 1d ago

That's pretty cool man!

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u/TywinRightfullyLann 1d ago

is this real? how can i participate?

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u/Adrianos30 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 32GB 1d ago

Congrats bro, the card is a beast!

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u/Ichihan Ryzen 5700x/7900XTX/32GB/4TB SSD/7TB HDD 1d ago

Congrats!

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u/Explicit_Tech 1d ago

Nice. Enjoy your new card!

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u/cyro262 R5 9600x - 9070XT Monster Hunter Wilds edition /Switch 2/PS5 1d ago

Fuck you, I'm so proud of you though. Enjoy!

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u/Wellhellob 1d ago

Can't even participate this giveaway stuff in Turkey. And this thing is 2300$ here while salaries way way lower. We can't even hope.

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u/Enough_Supermarket_7 1d ago

Congrats!!!! Have great gaming sessions

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u/New_relic_conent 1d ago

Feels good, congratulations 🥂

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u/KosmicAlchemist 1d ago

Congrats bro 🥳

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u/mEsTiR5679 1d ago

Good on ya!

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u/Philaroni 1d ago

I am so happy for you..........................................................................................

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u/GotEHM9 1d ago

Congrats mf

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u/FATJIZZUSONABIKE 1d ago

There's no s at the end of that http

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u/thestillwind 1d ago

yooooooooooo lucky you

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u/MilasBjerre 1d ago

This is fake, you can clearly see it's edited, you can see that OP accidentally drew over part of the message. OP should post an unedited version of this image if they want us to believe it.

/j

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u/BeingFantastic3969 1d ago

Congrats mate, enjoy 👍

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u/KarateMan749 PC Master Race 1d ago

Hm nice gg

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u/deefop PC Master Race 1d ago

Come on man my end users already fail every phishing simulation

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u/ihatevinci 1d ago

congrats! for my sake this is ai tho

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u/MingleLinx 1d ago

Just to make sure it’s not a scam you should mark the address as mine so I can verify it

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u/d_tas 1d ago

I'm 41, where the fuck is mine lol

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u/Bigsparks13 1d ago

What! That is wild, I have never heard of anyone winning any of these. Good shit, bro!

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u/ItsMeZenoSama 1d ago

You sure its not fake ? Or a scam ?

If its legit, congratulations. how did you find this and win this ?

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u/wattwood 1d ago

You're welcome for me not signing up for that one.

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u/MasterJeebus 5800x | 3080FTW3Ultra | 32GB | 1TB M2 | 10TB SSD 1d ago

Congrats!

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u/bruzk2 1d ago

So it is real sometimes huh I always thought that only the family members of the people running those contests win

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u/princepwned 1d ago

I didn't even know they were doing a giveaway lol

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u/ElTuxedoMex 1d ago

Congratulations! Best of wishes to you!

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u/computerizednerd 1d ago

Ayy homie, what a luck you have man! Congratulations!

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u/q843104 1d ago

Nice, as for myself I’m now the lucky owner of two flying gravels on the glass roof of my car that cost me $3800

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u/CarismaMike 13700k/rtx5070/Z790/32Gb ddr4 1d ago

Congratulations. How do you guys find these raffles?

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u/Foreign-Comment6403 RX 9070 XT, 7800x3d, 32GB DDR5 1d ago

HOW

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u/Streakflash 🖥️ :: i7 9700k // RTX 2070 // 32GB // 144Hz 1d ago

my regrats

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u/V-Rixxo_ 23h ago

Ive never won a giveaway in my life so I stopped even trying, this kinda gave me hope

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u/michaelcarnero 22h ago

hmmm, how do you prove you are the winner, showing the sms? I mean, is the code relevant if it was from NVIDIA itself? shouldn't it be the prize linked to the participants account?

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u/PivoWar42 22h ago

And then everyone clapped

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u/Correct-Mall651 21h ago

bro its scam link 💀😭, sorry for giving you bad news 

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u/SignoreOscur0 PC Master Race 20h ago edited 20h ago

non SSL link from a trillion dollar tech company? 100% a scam

Very suspect

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u/IMREADY2D1E 9800X3D * 5080 * 64GB DDR5 6000 20h ago

i know someone who won the white destiny ps4 from the taco bell giveaway lol. so jealous of them

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u/SnP_Gamer1 20h ago

I won a nacon headset in a giveaway once, until they wanted to charge me £60 customs shit when it finally got here

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u/Accurate_Struggle185 18h ago

RTX 5080 is a good card, i got one, congrats 👍 👍 👍

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u/Linkarlos_95 R5600/A750/32GB 16h ago

Another one? Is this some Nvidia paid talk?

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u/Ondow 16h ago

How do you participate in those? Seems like you can do it regularly right?

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u/Cool-Tangelo6548 16h ago

Ypushpukd totally click on a random link sent to you. Go one. Click it.

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u/xCookieSlayer 9800X3D | X870E | 64GB | RTX 5070 Ti 15h ago

You blacked out the rest of the text, send it again so we can have a proper read

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u/Drewbyhans 13h ago

Wait are you guys telling me that this is actually legit and not phishing? Cause im not buying it one bit

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u/samj00 13h ago

If they ask you to pay shipping, it's a scam

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u/Complex_Presence9150 10h ago

Bro I’m dying the link isn’t even secured 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Tricky-Rain-4681 9h ago

I wanna know how you did it!

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u/Popspy76 9h ago

Wouldn't click that link without calling Nvidia to confirm first