Minecraft account lost after falling for a Discord Scam

Hi there Bob S.

I am Lumie and I would love to assist you today.

I am so sorry you are having issues with a compromised account. Please keep in mind, this is a user forum, we are not Microsoft.

Please, never ever, give a code or an email address to anyone ever. There is never a reason for it, it is always a scam.

The transaction ID cannot be used in recovery, you must use the tools provided by Microsoft.

You can recover the account using the Account Recovery Form: https://account.live.com/acsr]

Make sure to complete it in an area you would usually access your account from. It is important to be consistent with this form, you can complete the form twice a day everyday until your regain access to your account. Repeating this will increase your odds of recovery.

Here are more tips to follow with the form: [https://support.microsoft.com/account-billing/b19c02d1-a782-dee6-93c3-dc8113b20c42]

I hope this helps!

Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. -Lumie

I've done some more digging and found that the cause was the discord verification. There is an ongoing scam on Hypixel Skyblock where people send guild invites to random players on Hypixel Skyblock and after joining their discord, they ask for your Minecraft Username and email associated with it. From my experience I gave them my Minecraft Username and email, and also helped them get into my account by using the Microsoft Authenticator FOR THEM. I want to unalive myself (joking) because of how embarrassing this is and I'm being open right now so please, berate me to your heart's content.

yes this screams scam and no ms would.never ask.for.that kinda stuff

It's likewise virus on your computer scam

They only feed you the info you are looking for

Don't do.it nor will.ms be able.to.help you after you fall for.the scam

Do not fall for this scam, the site may have given the OP a free Xbox Live code, but the vast majority wont and will in fact get their account details stolen etc

DO NOT FALL FOR IT!

Someone tried to pull a cunning confidence trick on me a few days ago. It was an epic fail though. They tried to befriend me by asking about the Ambassador program, claiming that they too were an Ambassador. They weren't.

After a few messages they sent me a link to a website that supposedly offered 1600 MS Points for free. Of course, there are no websites that offer points for free,
such sites are only designed to steal your account details. It was of course a phishing scam.

What generally happens here is, they will steal the account that falls for the scam, then send messages out to people on your friends list with the same scam. Unwitting users fall prey to this tactic, as they believe the message is genuine since it came from
a 'friend'. BE AWARE!