I haven't seen this anywhere else, but a friend forwarded me too this post on another PSU forum. Seems as though this poor guy lost everything. Anyway it's pretty serious stuff, and it looks like the people responsible are in for a rough ride.
Link: http://boards2.sega.com/psu_board/viewtopic.php?t=1323
For the lazy:
This is Spacey from the X-Box 360 version of PSU. I need some assistance from PSU players on the X-Box 360 version of the game. Please do not move this topic or delete it as this is a criminal matter and I need information to assist in the police investigation. This may need to be made as a sticky also. As some may know, last night my account was stolen by Neon, Pappy, and possibly a character named Long. They used a method called pretexting, where they call X-Box live support and get them to reset the victims password so they can log in as them and do whatever they want. It is not yet clear if they have someone inside X-Box Live as an accomplice, or if they have gotten inept employees every time that they have done this, since this is against company policy and also highly illegal. If you do not know the story, here is the run down of what happened. Two days ago I noticed NeoN lurking in my room. After reading all the Jinxpalm topics, I was a bit freaked out by him being there, so I quickly ran out of my room. About an hour later I returned to my room, and he was still there. He trailed me as I ran out of it again, and I remember thinking he better not be trying to get my gamertag to try and mess with me. Well tonight me and my real life wife, the character named Darreh, were sitting afk in my room doing some chores, when I noticed someone saying something to me. Pappy: "I heard about your room, I just wanted to come check it out." A character named Long was also there. Next thing I know I am kicked off the game. I try to log back in, but it says my "X-box live profile is not valid". Now on my wifes character I notice myself signing in and going into my room. I try to go there on her but there is a password now on my room. She sends some simple mails to my character that we know what is going on, but they don't respond. Then she and some of my friends went to NeoN's room. There stood my Grinna Bete S. Displayed in the middle of NeoN's room, as well as my Onmagoug, 2 Zoonas, and everything else. Darreh then checked Pappy and NeoN while confronting them. NeoN had on my 16% fire Bone Dance that Darreh had just synthed me, and Pappy was wearing my 38% light Double Saber, something we also synthed a few days ago. In Pappy's store later that evening, my armor was being sold. Rabol Tero 22% dark, which we had also just purchased a day or so ago. I was unable to recover my account, since they had changed the password. In contacting X-Box Live support, they were able to confirm the method used as stated before, and they seemed shocked that their employee would do such a thing. They told me this was identity theft and a criminal matter, and I should contact the police as soon as I get off the phone with them. They also said I needed to cancel my credit card to stop them from using it. Here is where I need some information from the X-Box 360 PSU community. In talking with the police, we have filed felony charges against NeoN, Pappy, and perhaps Long in this matter. If anyone else's account was stolen in this way, or knows anyone that this has happened to, I need some information. Here is the known list so far: Carnage - all items stolen Jinxpalm - all items stolen and character deleted Alain - all items stolen and character deleted Spacey - all items stolen Anyone with any information that is relevant to the criminal precedings, may also contact me at spaceacepsu@yahoo.com
Note that I am not this person, I'm simply forwarding it on, as I think everyone has a right to know about it.
I don't know wether it's true or not, but in the chance that it is, I thought it was worth putting up here that's all. I hope it isn't, I haven't heard of any real hacking in my time on the game and I like it just fine like that.
edit: Just thought, in order to actually get someones details, wouldn't you actually have to have the xbox360's serial number?
When recovering my account from my first xbox and they asked for very personal things. I belive its just dumb people that jump way to quick to conclusions.
action addict wrote:you can get upto 10 years inside for breaking the computure misuse act so is it really worth 200k messeta i think not
lol no where near. hackers are just dumb and think everything is a game including hacking.
yeah this makes no sense.....
Nothing more here to see kids, move along.....
CertifyedNigl3t wrote: yeah this makes no sense..... Nothing more here to see kids, move along.....
makes perfect sense question is-
is it true or not?
May or may not be true... Although I reconize some of the names mentioned. However, Pretexting is Illeagal and that would be possible if you talked with a moron...
i personally beleive it for 1 reason alone...
!!!you dont need a diploma to work at a call centre!!!
these people who work for xbox live support are r-e-t-a-r-d-s who are are clearly uber-dumb so yes its possible this identidy theft may of been carried out.
i personally find the matter intrigueing and everyone should be wary if you beleive it or not
action addict wrote:i personally find the matter intrigueing and everyone should be wary if you beleive it or not
Balla4Real21 wrote:If you are deaf how can you use a keyboard? Is it in brail?
Dustin91 wrote:If you ever see Pappy, run. Seriously though, he runs around and finds people with good items and then grabs their gamertag and then all their stuff. Im not joking, i saw him this past weekend on neudaiz asking if anyone knew who he was...some yelled out "hac/ker!" and he said that "thats right, now run before i get your GC"
i have also found out something...
if this happens to you and your british/canadian or japanese. Nobody can help you as microsoft is an american company.
Someone on my fr list told me about this when playing psu the other night. He said people will get your gc and then call MS over and over trying to get bits of info about your account from the various operators and eventually get enough to take over the account and rip it off. It's scary at first thought. I guess it's possible. If thats the plain truth then something has to be done to correct and prevent it asap.
Is this happening with FF online too?
I wonder if these people that are getting "hacked" are also buying meseta on the net and their info is taken that way and then they are "hacked" by the people selling emoney. Cheating never pays. :P I'm not saying that's it but it sounds more likley then ms giving your personal account info away.