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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject: XBLive spam?

What are all these join www.xbox-profile.com (playfire.com) messages I've been receiving over XBLive?

I'm starting to think it isn't my friends who've sent them.

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 10:49 pm Post subject:

page not found.

I smell spam.

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject:

I got one as well, the best thing for people to do that have been sent that message is to reply and let then know their account has been hit.

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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject:

I got the message. A friend went to check out the site and it requested that he send an invite to friends. He declined, but the message went out anyway. It's spam.

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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

Yeah I got one of those from Rattlesnake316. Profile showed he was a 2o2p member, so I don't know if he sent it on purpose or not.

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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:11 am Post subject:

Ive gotten 3 of them now from 3 different ppl on my friends list, all of whom are 2o2p members. Starting to think it originated from someone on this site somewhere.

Not a big deal really, it hasnt infected my 360 or anything, just hit X and delete them.

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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:24 am Post subject:

Hey guys,

This is Kieran O'Neill here, CEO at Playfire.com. I just want to say that it's not spam or anything dodgy like that.

Playfire is a social network for gamers, and we've added a feature where you can get a profile with lots of cool Xbox Live updates on it. You can claim your profile, but in order to do that you need to verify it's really you (we've had people claim profiles which weren't theirs). You authenticate by logging into Xbox Live (we don't store ANY of the info, as it says on the page). If you prove it's really you, we give you the option of inviting your friends, who then get a profile too.

That's it really. Hubristes, if you're friend didn't choose to send the invite, we don't send it (there's no way we CAN, as the way it's coded PMs are only sent if a validated user pressed the button).

Anyway, sorry for all the confusion, if you guys have any advice on how we can make it better let me know. Feel free to email me personally on kieran at playfire dot com.

Happy gaming!

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:25 am Post subject:

P.S. Speatleyson, did you receive more than 1 PM from different people? You should have, you should only ever get max 1. Please confirm. Thanks!

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:42 am Post subject:

What I mean is, to your gamertag, have you received more than one invite at all?

As a recipient we've limited it to only ever receiving 1 message, as it would be annoying to get flooded by them.

Thanks for helping out Smile

As I said, we're just a bunch of gamers who built a site we want gamers to use an enjoy.

-Kieran

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:49 am Post subject:

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:52 am Post subject:

Ah okay, there's no way we can protect against that scenario, as there's no way we'll know it's you behind all three! Smile

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:55 am Post subject:

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:58 am Post subject:

We only ever contact a GT once. My understanding is your have 3 different gamertags that were contated. Each one was only contacted once. I might be misunderstanding the situation?

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject:

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