Microsoft really needs to deal with these bots

Discus and support Microsoft really needs to deal with these bots in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; For 2 days now, after playing a match of Gears 4 two days ago, I have been getting friend requests almost constantly. The profiles range from 0-20k... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by FlyingMonkees, Dec 18, 2017.

  1. Microsoft really needs to deal with these bots


    For 2 days now, after playing a match of Gears 4 two days ago, I have been getting friend requests almost constantly. The profiles range from 0-20k Gamer Score, maybe even more. They all happen to have sent friend requests to hundreds of people in a very
    short amount of time and have extremely low followers.

    Here's my suggestion about this, there NEEDS to be more settings for your account. For example, there needs to be a setting to not let people friend you. Oh Tuxedo, that's a stupid idea! Hear me out on this. The settings for that can be "Who can friend you"
    Everyone, Friend of Friends, Club, nobody. There, that keeps most bots off your back. Why? Because some don't even message you, I call them "Follow Bots". Next, we already have the party invite/ message setting, so that's already good. That setting already
    can stop people from accidently joining their parties or responding to their messages. Unless there's a better solution to this to fix the notification spam from being friended by bots, here's the best solution I came up with. Before you say I am exaggerating
    about this issue, is 500+ blocked accounts from this issue alone exaggerating?

    I know Microsoft are working on this issue, but we need to plan ahead on better options to stop this issue better and more effectively.

    :)
     
    FlyingMonkees, Dec 18, 2017
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  2. Really? Boosting with EOD bots.

    explains alot.....was playing on the canals map....and some moron who never left the spawn went like 0-5 and ended the match with over 11,000 points and we lost......because a portion of the team was sitting back pulling this crap
     
    II PARALLAX II, Dec 18, 2017
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  3. Really? Boosting with EOD bots.

    Dusty where'd you get that Sig??? Haven't seen that one..
     
    Ricky Spanish13, Dec 18, 2017
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  4. EvilTommy232
    EvilTommy232 Guest

    Microsoft really needs to deal with these bots

    finally!!!! someone with the same issue. ive made 2 posts now but noone answers. its like xbox forums are dead. Iwonder if there is anyone at all from xbox that reads it. xbox support where are you??????????. Same have been happening as said to me too tuxedo.
    i went from around 90 followers accumulated since xbox one came out, to near 350 followers already. none responds when i text them. im tired of blocking and reporting them. it disrupts my gaming and im afraid of loosing my account as result to hacking or
    phising. Microsoft needs to take the stick out of theyr ar** and start caring for theyr loyal customers. should be easy enough for them to fix this. i even phoned xbox customer support but they where unfamiliar with the problem and recommended me to contact
    ambassador chat as im in the preview thingy. that doesnt seem to exist. frustrated here.
     
    EvilTommy232, Dec 19, 2017
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  5. EvilTommy232 Win User

    Microsoft really needs to deal with these bots

    finally!!!! someone with the same issue. ive made 2 posts now but noone answers. its like xbox forums are dead. Iwonder if there is anyone at all from xbox that reads it. xbox support where are you??????????. Same have been happening as said to me too tuxedo.
    i went from around 90 followers accumulated since xbox one came out, to near 350 followers already. none responds when i text them. im tired of blocking and reporting them. it disrupts my gaming and im afraid of loosing my account as result to hacking or
    phising. Microsoft needs to take the stick out of theyr ar** and start caring for theyr loyal customers. should be easy enough for them to fix this. i even phoned xbox customer support but they where unfamiliar with the problem and recommended me to contact
    ambassador chat as im in the preview thingy. that doesnt seem to exist. frustrated here.
  6. ArminatorX Win User

    Someone add me is a bot

    In this forum, no one can help you with bots adding you as a follower.

    If you feel that the profile violates the Microsoft Terms of Use or Community guidelines, you need to report the profile through the console's or Xbox App's reporting feature.

    That way the Enforcement Team can deal with the bot.

    Otherwise, your post goes unnoticed, as the Enforcement Team doesn't read these forums.
  7. AngelObullets Win User

    Microsoft, do you need a reason to stop allowing people to follow without permission?

    The bot situation is a block and report action enforcement deals with these bots after investigating. The block button stops people from following you.
  8. oTYLERxDURDENo Win User

    Bot messages

    Report and block the best way to deal with any form of spam bots
  9. Alanisreno Win User

    Bot/Spam Awareness

    I agree I let people know daily how to deal with it not saying it's an issue I'm happy to do it just it's starting to get really bad the bots/spam messages come a few times a day for me and its annoying so even putting a warning saying to watch out for
    this current issue and/or tell them how to currently deal with it
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