Warning to everyone! *read*

Ok im not sure if anyone has posted this already but i though i would warn everyone.

I recently got a msg from a friend on xbox live telling me to visit a link for 800 free ms points.. stupidly, i did. It looked like an official xbox website with a place to put in your email and password for xbox.. stupidly again, i did. After that it reverted me to the official xbox website. Thinking nothing of it i went on playing (never got the 800 ms points)

And today i found 4 transaction taken from my account by Microsoft for $82.50 Australian dollars. I rang Microsoft who are now "looking into the matter" and of-course, cancelled my debit cards at my bank who are also "looking into the matter"

The only thing i feel now is utterly stupid. So before anyone else gets done like me i am posting this.

If you receive a msg from ANY of your friends about free ms points. DO NOT ACCEPT!

are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.

I'm only posting so other people WONT be as stupid as me. I should have known what i was doing.. but it looked like an official ms website and it was sent by a close friend< who's account was also tampered with.

are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.cruxe

[QUOTE="cruxe"]are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.MM87

Is your 360 inside that case?

That sucks man, I guess you learned a lesson to never give out personal info.metocman1

Thanks.

See thats another thing though aswell. It was an old email adress that i never use anyway, i just forgot it was linked to my xbox as sign-in info and from that they got card numbers and so on. I thought i was just signing into the xbox site :(

you know... I usually make fun of people who are that dumb... but I will say this, I opened one of the sites just to see what it looks like, they have it set up to look EXACTLY like an MSN login and everything. If you get scammed on this it's really your own fault, but they do look pretty impressive.mfp16

Im usually in the same boat as you. I have been around the Internet like the town bike since i was 13-14 and usually pick this sort of stuff. but yeah. my fault

:(

i got a mesage from sombody saying they know a hack to get to 1st on rank board on rainbow vegas 2 i said teach me but no.... they wanted my user info so i said it was a scam.

You're using a credit card huh? This is why I like going to the store and buying me some MS Points card instead of using credit cards.

Ok im not sure if anyone has posted this already but i though i would warn everyone.

I recently got a msg from a friend on xbox live telling me to visit a link for 800 free ms points.. stupidly, i did. It looked like an official xbox website with a place to put in your email and password for xbox.. stupidly again, i did. After that it reverted me to the official xbox website. Thinking nothing of it i went on playing (never got the 800 ms points)

And today i found 4 transaction taken from my account by Microsoft for $82.50 Australian dollars. I rang Microsoft who are now "looking into the matter" and of-course, cancelled my debit cards at my bank who are also "looking into the matter"

The only thing i feel now is utterly stupid. So before anyone else gets done like me i am posting this.

If you receive a msg from ANY of your friends about free ms points. DO NOT ACCEPT!

cruxe

*Whistles* Ouch.

You're using a credit card huh? This is why I like going to the store and buying me some MS Points card instead of using credit cards.

ReverseCycology

no. its a debit card. ie: you have to have money in your account.

[QUOTE="cruxe"]are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.MM87

Wait your not supposed to keep your 360 in the freezer?... I'll be right back.

[QUOTE="MM87"][QUOTE="cruxe"]are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.killercuts3

Is your 360 inside that case?

[QUOTE="MM87"][QUOTE="cruxe"]are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.julianwelton

Wait your not supposed to keep your 360 in the freezer?... I'll be right back.

crikey! mines in my oven, hang on a moment guys.

TC- yeah thanks for the heads up, I dismiss any messages with "free" in them, but I'll be sure to be extra alert.

[QUOTE="metocman1"]That sucks man, I guess you learned a lesson to never give out personal info.cruxe

Thanks.

See thats another thing though aswell. It was an old email adress that i never use anyway, i just forgot it was linked to my xbox as sign-in info and from that they got card numbers and so on. I thought i was just signing into the xbox site :(

You should always look at the adress bar. If its not something like www.xbox.live.login.com or something like that, its a scam. Fishing sites are not that hard to make

One time long long time ago... One of my friends told me he found a gay well naughty videos with boy on boy so i sent the website to all my friends on xbox and it turned out to be full of viruses and about 3 of my friends computers were just massacred. They are no longer on my friends list :(

thanks for the heads up.

wait does this mean gamefly's advertisement for 400 microsoft points is really a scam so they can steal my identity?

Ok im not sure if anyone has posted this already but i though i would warn everyone.

I recently got a msg from a friend on xbox live telling me to visit a link for 800 free ms points.. stupidly, i did. It looked like an official xbox website with a place to put in your email and password for xbox.. stupidly again, i did. After that it reverted me to the official xbox website. Thinking nothing of it i went on playing (never got the 800 ms points)

And today i found 4 transaction taken from my account by Microsoft for $82.50 Australian dollars. I rang Microsoft who are now "looking into the matter" and of-course, cancelled my debit cards at my bank who are also "looking into the matter"

The only thing i feel now is utterly stupid. So before anyone else gets done like me i am posting this.

If you receive a msg from ANY of your friends about free ms points. DO NOT ACCEPT!

cruxe

Exactlt the same thing happend 2 me about 2 weeks ago except my account was hacked.

you got an EPIC FAIL. have a cup of tea and think it over next time.

Ok im not sure if anyone has posted this already but i though i would warn everyone.

I recently got a msg from a friend on xbox live telling me to visit a link for 800 free ms points.. stupidly, i did. It looked like an official xbox website with a place to put in your email and password for xbox.. stupidly again, i did. After that it reverted me to the official xbox website. Thinking nothing of it i went on playing (never got the 800 ms points)

And today i found 4 transaction taken from my account by Microsoft for $82.50 Australian dollars. I rang Microsoft who are now "looking into the matter" and of-course, cancelled my debit cards at my bank who are also "looking into the matter"

The only thing i feel now is utterly stupid. So before anyone else gets done like me i am posting this.

If you receive a msg from ANY of your friends about free ms points. DO NOT ACCEPT!

cruxe

too steps to aviod that stuff - 1) cut ur friends down to a minimum i.e. gettin rid of ppl you dont play with - this means any message from a friend then on can be trusted that little bit more

2) Dont be an idiot - asume no one is the world gives away anything

I recently got a msg from a friend on xbox live telling me to visit a link for 800 free ms points.. stupidly, i did. It looked like an official xbox website with a place to put in your email and password for xbox.. stupidly again, i did. After that it reverted me to the official xbox website. Thinking nothing of it i went on playing (never got the 800 ms points)

cruxe

What a nice friend..

[QUOTE="cruxe"]

I recently got a msg from a friend on xbox live telling me to visit a link for 800 free ms points.. stupidly, i did. It looked like an official xbox website with a place to put in your email and password for xbox.. stupidly again, i did. After that it reverted me to the official xbox website. Thinking nothing of it i went on playing (never got the 800 ms points)

STMGG__60

What a nice friend..

Exactly. Why would a "friend" send you that crap?

Too good to be true?

[QUOTE="MM87"][QUOTE="cruxe"]are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.julianwelton

Wait your not supposed to keep your 360 in the freezer?... I'll be right back.

no sir it belongs in the oven. -)

[QUOTE="cruxe"]are you the guy who put he's 360 in the freezer? lol.MM87