Scam Alert

just want to alert the community about a scam goin around. I will attach photos at the end showing it starts and ends from the person sending the message.

Long story short people are messaging that they found your username from a name search in the Xbox app and they ask how old you are (first step to suspicion).



Myself and a few of my friends have been contacted about 8 times in 2 days from different scam accounts (0 gamerscore, done nothing but add friends for days). So I decided to get some info to report them. After 2 messages it started. They ask if you want
to have some fun and ask you to go to a website (GamerCams) and type in credit card info and they will give you access to them on cam.







Please be cautious community. Just report them for scam. See attached photos.

:)

 

SCAM ALERT

The fallowing is a message i got on bungies website from someone asking me to more or less open my phone and give them access heres the message with the gamer tag so keep your eye open for similar things ----

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3h 42m ago

hey bro. I need you to download hellfire on your phone or tablet through play store and when it asks you for a username at the end of the tutorial put bc10401 and whatever password you want

 

SCAM ALERT

You cannot name and shame other users on this forum.

Report them on your console.

 

If you haven't done so already, file a complaint on the gamertag and block communications.

 

I just got the exact same type of messages, I just wanted to know how long ago this started. Reported and blocked that person. Be careful community!

 

YES finally I have found a post that confirms this is happening to other people. For the 3rd time in a week, a gamertag with 0g, no recent games, a handful (at most) of friends (people too dumb to know it's suspicious). The first incident was just like your
screen shot, but a different gamertag and never went further than the age question. The next one, I received 2 messages from ("heya bby" and "hi cutie"), but never replied. The one to my husband's account was "hiya xox." We have reported and blocked all 3.

Thanks for posting this and confirming our suspicions! Hopefully Microsoft can sniff them out soon!

 

I too got some messages that was from the same group I tried to report but there wasn't a category for scamming. not sure if anyone official will look into it but if anyone does read this and would like some additional information to help stop the problem
the gamertag used to try and scam me was Satinyjuggler65