Fraud or phishing attempts are nothing new. It is not uncommon that one day there are millions of attempts. The methodology is simple; They send you an email pretending to be a service you use with a link to enter your credentials and once you do, your account has been stolen. These types of scams are more and more elaborate, gone is the story of the Nigerian prince who wants to give you millions of dollars, or those emails from your bank stuffed with spelling mistakes…
Of course, Xbox was not going to be less, and there are also people trying to steal profiles. You may think that no one would be interested in your profile, but think about it, you may have your credit cards, your email, private chats and lots of other seemingly irrelevant data; but I tell you they are not. Sometimes these profile thefts they focus on kidnapping them to resell them
Tips for preserving your Xbox account
Anyone who has used Xbox for a few years knows that this is not new, we see how it has been tried for some time, for example, via private messages within the console itself. However, it now seems that the environment is changing and These are emails that attempt to steal your credentials for Xbox.
So for that, I am going to give you some tips to prevent your Xbox Live credentials from being stolen. They are very basic, but they will surely save you more than one upset.
Do not log in from an email link
Although the link may seem legitimate, if when you click on it it asks you to log in, there is a risk th at it is a fake site trying to store your credentials. My advice is never to do this. If you want to read your notifications, security alerts, rewards, or whatever, you can always go to Microsoft’s official website and sign in. You will have everything there.
Example of malicious mail in Outlook.
If he quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and behaves like a duck, then he must be a duck!
He is extremely wary of big mail-in promotions. Especially if they look absurdly good. If you receive something like this and want to verify that it is legitimate, I refer to point one of this text, go to the Microsoft website with your account and it should be there.
General tips
The emails of an English lady who wanted to donate her inheritance to you if you showed yourself to be a good Christian by paying her 2,000 dollars have also been forgotten. Now the methods are a little more sophisticated and no longer arrive riddled with spelling mistakes, but there are still verifiable remnants you can look at. For example, the sender of the email, make sure it is from Microsoft and not some weird subdomain.
Also look at the links where the images come from. In general, if you use Outlook or Gmail, your email will block images from an email, that’s where you’ll see a link instead of the image. If this link points to Russian, Chinese or foreign domains… go back to point number one and verify your Microsoft account.
Manners for your Microsoft account
My biggest tip is to protect your account with a two-factor authenticator. For example with Microsoft Authenticator or Google Authenticator. Forcing the use of a verification code is always important because you never know who has been able to access your passwords. Even if you didn’t listen to me in the first point, you still have time to save yourself if your account requires two-factor authentication.
To activate it, all you have to do is:
- And a https://account.microsoft.com/
- Security.
- Advanced security options.
- Add a new login or verification method.
- Use the app.
So you can configure Microsoft Authenticator on your Xbox account.
Then you just have to follow the instructions that appear on the screen and that’s it. I hope these tips have been helpful to you. They have saved me many headaches on more than one occasion.
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