Spambots begin targeting Xbox Live users
While having these accounts follow you is harmless enough (one of them followed mine just this morning) the messages are more of a concern as they appear to be geared towards asking users for personal information such as their name, age, and address. Information that could potentially be used to log into a user’s account on another social network, utility provider, or other service.
This does appear to be a fairly new problem on Xbox Live, at least to the degree that it’s happening now, and Microsoft hasn’t made a statement on it or offered a solution. For now, users should be cautious when communicating with new accounts with no Gamerscore and report them either via the Xbox app on PC or mobile or from on the Xbox One console.
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LillardPosted:
Echo Seen a few complaint's about this lately actually. No way to stop messages on Xbox from non-friends ?
Should be in your privacy settings
EthanPosted:
I got a message from someone like that too! I said I was 12 and they stopped messaging me
EchoPosted:
Seen a few complaint's about this lately actually. No way to stop messages on Xbox from non-friends ?
ChatPosted:
my convo with them.
Bot: Hi
Me: who r u
Bot: Ii got ure name frm the profile search here on this xbox app cuz i was bored and lookin for new people to talk to. :)
Bot: how old are u?
Me: 13
Bot:Im sory
- doesn't reply again? lmao
Bot: Hi
Me: who r u
Bot: Ii got ure name frm the profile search here on this xbox app cuz i was bored and lookin for new people to talk to. :)
Bot: how old are u?
Me: 13
Bot:Im sory
- doesn't reply again? lmao
GrandmaArchyPosted:
I had a conversation with one of these bots, first it said that it found my name from the profile search on the Xbox App because it was bored and wanted new people to talk to, after a while it wanted me to follow a link to her cam show...
BPMPosted:
Oh hey, I was bored and randomly types your name into a search and wanted to talk to new Friends.... Hey xoxoxo......how old are you. Yeah been getting a lot of these. Almost as bad as twitter.
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