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[DopeyFish]

I logged in after clicking the link...

What URL was in the email? Not where you ended up but what address was it going to?

Was it still pointing to Xbox.com or somewhere else?

If not, code was fake and you have to change your password

If yes, a douchebag stole your code

 

[Scotch]

I logged in after clicking the link...

Change your password, buddy.

 

[El Sloth]

I logged in after clicking the link...

C'mon, son.
Edit:

the email address is legit btw (even though the op misspelled it TWICE in the OP before the edit, sheesh)

Looks like OP lucked out.

Other than getting his points stolen that is.

 

[chixdiggit]

Thank you to the OP. Seriously, I really needed a good laugh today. Sucks that it happened to you (but so funny).

 

[LightofRohan]

FUCK THE CODE WAS ALREADY USED????? YOU PEOPLE SUCK.

LMFAO.

This is an amazing thread. Wow.

 

[The Wise Old Man]

Two points:

1) As maddeningly stupid as this incident was, I am also laughing.
2) This is all so fucking ironic I'm surprised a singularity didn't occur here at GAF.

 

[MMaRsu]

Heheh the wise old man...hehe

 

[Tunavi]

Best part of the whole thread was in the OP.

So i got an email from xbox@engage.xbox.com telling me i got 600 free MS points for renewing my membership. Is this spam? They want me to login to my xbox account to claim the points... by doing so will I subject myself to thievery?

hahahahhaah

 

[Parallax Scroll]

I logged in after clicking the link...

whyyyyyyyyy

 

[Wario64]

Three points:

1) As maddeningly stupid as this incident was, I am also laughing.
2) This is all so fucking ironic I'm surprised a singularity didn't occur here at GAF.
3) I shall now lick my wounds online in Halo. Gamertag is below should anyone wish to join me.

Oh now you're gonna be FIFA hacked, people know your gamertag!

 

[chaosblade]

Plot twist thread of the year right here.

And yeah, change your password to be safe.

 

[bs000]

the email address is legit btw (even though the op misspelled it TWICE in the OP before the edit, sheesh)

Yea I just looked through my e-mail and all my e-mails from XBOX are from @engage.xbox.com

 

[LuCkymoON]

FUCK THE CODE WAS ALREADY USED????? YOU PEOPLE SUCK.

wow fucking epic

 

[Agent Unknown]

Whoever it was I'll bet the dude looks like this right now:

 

[AkimbO_Arcana]

hahaha I'm dying here!

 

[whitehawk]

the email address is legit btw (even though the op misspelled it TWICE in the OP before the edit, sheesh)

Ah your right. Googling that email address tells me it's legit.

 

[TheMan]

Yea I just looked through my e-mail and all my e-mails from XBOX are from @engage.xbox.com

yup. may have been legit after all... which means that a thief lurks among us

 

[Radec]

lol.

Would be hilarious if the dude who used the code is still a pending member.

 

[rj118]

This whole thread

 

[Dipswitch]

Oh man - I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. To the OP - I tip my hat to you for taking it so well.

And to the thieving fucker who stole the code - congrats, you're a thieving fucker. You did make for an entertaining thread though, so there is that.

 

[SmithnCo]

Haha, that was hilarious.

 

[sixteen-bit]

OP dun goofed

 

[Odrion]

More like neogaf.con. Heeeh.

 

[Tunavi]

Im pretty sure Wario took the points now. That dude would do anything for free MS points

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

So good...

 

[Keyser Soze]

Even those this turned out fine (even if you did not get the points) - please don't enter your details on a site after clicking a link you find in an email again - it is just asking for trouble. I am more shocked at someone doing that so freely (and seemingly not understanding what they have just done) than the losing the points part of this story.

 

[Edgeward]

HAHAHA This just keeps getting worse and worse.

 

[Megadragon15]

This thread made me laugh.

 

[Ronabo]

Amazing.

 

[Infinite Justice]

So the OP lucked out then...except for the points lol

 

[Threi]

 

[tekneek2k6]

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Funny thing is someone had to retype that all out and still managed to redeem the code when all he had to do was hit redeem

Bahahahhahahahahha

KJDFHKDSJHFKSDJHFKDSJ

SO MUCH WIN/FAIL

My sympathies OP lmao

 

[SilentProtagonist]

NOBODY LEAVES THIS THREAD TIL WE FIND THE THIEF!

 

[Cosmo Clock 21]

Ah your right. Googling that email address tells me it's legit.

You can spoof the From header in emails, you know.

 

[El Sloth]

Ah your right. Googling that email address tells me it's legit.

So, what you're saying is that all the OP had to do was google the email address and he could have avoided all this?

 

[Overdoziz]

Ehm, seems to me like the email linked to a phishing site that looks like Xbox.com. Now they've got you're account information because you 'logged in' on the fake website. The message saying that the code has already been used probably shows up every time. Try entering a random code and see what happens.

Either way, you dead.

 

[TheMan]

if you called MS and told them what happened, I doubt they'd have much trouble giving you the points and banning whoever stole them. (assuming this wasn't an elaborate phishing scam.)

 

[Wario64]

Im pretty sure Wario took the points now. That dude would do anything for free MS points

 

[Rapstah]

So, what you're saying is that all the OP had to do was google the email address and he could have avoided all this?

You can spoof email headers pretty easily for some services. Hotmail is pretty broken in that regard, I got e-mails from @blizzard.com all the time that were from vastly different addresses if you clicked "respond".

 

[iNvid02]

hahahahahahha

i bet it was a member and not a lurker

 

[Digishine]

What happened here ? *read* *laughs* Poor OP

 

[Bryan1321]

So OP thinks its getting a suspicious email with free points... posts the code and it turns out the points where legit???

I got this thread right Gaf??

 

[Hey You]

Uh, Are you a member of Xbox Live Rewards?

 

[xHAASx]

if you called MS and told them what happened, I doubt they'd have much trouble giving you the points and banning whoever stole them. (assuming this wasn't an elaborate phishing scam.)

Would they be convinced by his story?

 

[Wario64]

So OP thinks its getting a suspicious email with free points... posts the code and it turns out the points where legit???

I got this thread right Gaf??

Is the thread that hard to understand that you have to ask?

 

[LQX]

hahahahahahha

i bet it was a member and not a lurker

I think its most times always member though many always say it was lurker whenever a code is posted in some of these freebies threads.

 

[Rapstah]

Is the thread that hard to understand that you have to ask?

You took them so fucking hard.

 

[The Wise Old Man]

if you called MS and told them what happened, I doubt they'd have much trouble giving you the points and banning whoever stole them. (assuming this wasn't an elaborate phishing scam.)

I actually might do this.

 

[Parallax Scroll]

Im pretty sure Wario took the points now. That dude would do anything for free MS points

I dunno man, Silex seemed awfully sure that the email was legit. Maybe because he tested it, hmm?