Free Xbox Live Points Scam?

Beanstalk

Was playing call of Duty 4 today and a guy on my team sends me a message offering me free xbox live points. I thought id humour him for a few minutes and when I asked him how does it work he mumbled something about working for microsoft in New York and getting a whole load of points free each month. He then asked me for my windows live password in order to give me 4000 points. Safe to say i didnt give it to him. Seems mental someone would actually ask me for my windows live password! He could just spend all the points I already have in one fell swoop.

jaybee747

Yep definite scam,I actually know someone who gave over his details.Number one rule nver ever give out your passwords a big No No!

mukki

proof that its easier to scam a dishonest person

Atavan-Halen

Yup, avoid. When will people realise that theres no way of getting MS points or gold membership for free. Never ever give out passwords. Think about it, why would Microsoft or whoever ask you for your password through an email? They would already have it on record somewhere.

Beanstalk

mukki wrote: »

proof that its easier to scam a dishonest person

I didn't want the points i never use them. I had a feeling it was a scam, i just wanted to hear him explain himself, and he made a right balls of it. I could also hear someone talking in the background saying 'yeah get him to do it'

Twilightning

If you give your password away to one of these guys in the hopes of earning free points, you pretty much deserve to have your profile taken away.

Sarn

You should have given him a fake password. That would have wasted some of their time.

calex71

Twilightning wrote: »

If you give your password away to one of these guys in the hopes of earning free points, you pretty much deserve to have your profile taken away.

Kids of a young enough age would know no better , although the argument could be made they shouldnt be playing unsupervised.

screw2loose

Yeah young kids would just love the idea of free points and dive head first into it!!

Peteemax

hi i was playing cod5 when i got a message. Stating a number of complaints been logged against me and if i wanted to continue playing xbox live i would have to reply with my windows adress and password within 30 days. Thinking i done something wrong i decided to call xbox live call centre. They told me to never give out my personal details. The gamertag that sent me the message was called microsoftXX or something like that.

Atavan-Halen

Just don't give out passwords. Ever. Regardless of what it says in the message