Xbox Live Phishing Scam

[MikeHaggar]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169147

Friendly warning, folks: There's a new Xbox Live phishing scam making its way across Microsoft's service. The scam comes in the form of a message that appears to be from someone on your friends list, which reads "M2AF everybody go to loginxbox.tk I just got 1600 MS points Hurry though!! I think it is a limited time offer."

Free points? Sounds fantastic, right? Too bad that when you actually go to the bogus site and enter your Xbox Live login information, all it does is send the same message to everyone else on your friends list. So if you've already received (or eventually receive) this message, be a pal and tell whoever sent it to you to change their XBL password pronto, as it may be compromised for whatever nefarious deeds these scammers intend.

Better not go to that page then.

[toneeblair]

on the other hand... i got a genuine message from Microsoft saying something like:

"About that GTA4 pre-order scheme where you got the free points? We forgot to give them to you, so we credited you with 500 points. Sorry for any inconvenience."

only... i did get the original points. bonus.

[Chinzon]

on the other hand... i got a genuine message from Microsoft saying something like:

"About that GTA4 pre-order scheme where you got the free points? We forgot to give them to you, so we credited you with 500 points. Sorry for any inconvenience."

only... i did get the original points. bonus.

Me too, and I didn't even pre-order!

Though I did queue for about an hour and a half to get the bloody thing...