{"id":917,"date":"2012-01-19T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T12:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:42:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:42:31","slug":"latest-phishing-scam-in-the-name-of-xbox-game-microsoft-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/email-scam\/latest-phishing-scam-in-the-name-of-xbox-game-microsoft-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest phishing scam in the name of Xbox game-Microsoft warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft has warned, if you see a page claiming to allow you to sign up for a Halo 4 ignore that page because it\u2019s a fake and it is meant only for revealing your Xbox Live password.Of course, we obviously know that it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/\"><strong>scam<\/strong><\/a> because no beta version of \u2018Halo 4\u2019 has ever been announced or mentioned by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Halo4-scam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Halo4-scam-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Halo4-scam\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There probably will be a beta at some point this year, possibly in the summer, but Microsoft&#8217;s usual procedure is to include access alongside some other prominent game of the time. They haven&#8217;t got much lined up so far this year but the Halo previously has come with beta version as ODST and the Gears Of War 3 in Epic Games&#8217; Bulletstorm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course Microsoft has had quite a bit of practice warning about <strong><a title=\"Phishig scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/phishing_scam.php\">Phishing scams<\/a><\/strong>, and it&#8217;s still blaming the information of Xbox Live being &#8216;hacked&#8217; solely on the occurrence. Phishing works by criminals sending emails contains web link that looks like official page(pretending to be from a bank is a common scam) and then trying to trick you into entering usernames, passwords and other personal details into fake websites. (<a href=\"https:\/\/sematext.com\/xanax-online\/\">https:\/\/sematext.com\/xanax-online\/<\/a>)  Although many Xbox Live users insist they&#8217;ve not been victims to such scams there remains no evidence that the service, or Xbox.com, has been hacked in the traditional intellect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has warned, if you see a page claiming to allow you to sign up for a Halo 4 ignore that page because it\u2019s a fake and it is meant only for revealing your Xbox Live password.Of course, we obviously know that it&#8217;s a scam because no beta version of \u2018Halo 4\u2019 has ever been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,3,15,23],"tags":[69,68,66,67],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyber-scam","category-email-scam","category-scam","category-spam","tag-halo-4-beta-scams","tag-internet-scams","tag-latest-phishing-scams","tag-xbox-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}