ALERT! Points scammers targeting Live

[friedkarma]

As usual, a handful of douchebags try to **** up a good thing. There is a points scam on Live/passport.net.

From Xbox360fanboy:


While every major company in the world attempts to bang into your head that they will never ask for your account information sometimes people don't listen.

Unfortunately a scam, which appears to have been around for some time, promises free Microsoft points when you log into your .net Passport account. This site, and any site that promises the same, is 100% fake and will only lead to a headache like the reader who sent this in who had 5000 MS points purchased with his credit card.

We know this isn't the first, nor will it be the last, site to attempt to scam you but we hope to echo what you all should already know.

We won't link the site itself, for fear of spreading the scam, but we would like to remind you of a few key things.

Microsoft will only give points away during official contests that ALWAYS link directly back to a Microsoft site and those contests are always widely reported on X3F, Joystiq and other gaming sites

Never, no matter what you're promised, log into your account unless on officially sanctioned Xbox sites (Xbox.com, Bungie.net, ForzaMotorsport.net, etc.)
Never give away your user name and password to anyone and remember Microsoft will never ask for this information
Never give away your account details, including credit card information and mailing address
Do not get caught in a scam, who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes if you do.

Check out our visual guide to spotting fake Microsoft sites used in similar scams. This guide isn't foolproof however, so just steer clear from anything that promises anything!

Alert! Microsoft Points scam sweeps Xbox Live - Xbox 360 Fanboy

There was no option for 'all of the above' in the poll.

Seriously these people need to be locked in a room with me for 5mins, cos that would be all it would take for me to go through them. Internet fraudsters need to die, or be cut up and used for spare organs.

[ElderScroller27]

The classical punishment for thieves is that they have one of their hands cut off. So I vote for that.

Early last year when I was playing Chromehounds I had a guy playing with me regularly for several weeks and he seemed cool, he told me he would log in as me on his console and boost my Gamerscore if I gave him my account info so he could recover my account info on his console. I declined but one of the guys on our Chromehounds clan accepted the offer..... a week later he was telling us all how pissed he was because tha guy who was helping to boost gamerscores had somehow used his info to download over 30 FULL VERSION arcade games onto his own account but had somehow billed them to the borrowed account the last i heard he was calling the police but the guy was offering to pay back the money to prevent police involvement... i ditched that clan very soon after.

The only safe rule is DON'T TRUST ANYONE WITH YOUR FINANCIAL OR PERSONAL INFO, EVER. EVER.

[bevo1981]

i think most of the 18+ crowd know this already, but it is very useful for the kids since most are too young to understand identity theft and fraud and sensitive information. and since kids make up the majority of the gaming market, that's who spammers are probably after.

[Blasterpez]

it seems that about half the people that voted like that 'bowel' part in there. bowel. that's a funny word.