Treyarch Warns Of Xbox Live COD Scam
Don't get scammed.
Published: 13:00, 12/08/2010 by Dan Lee.
67Call of Duty: Black Ops developer – Treyarch – has warned gamers of a new scam that involves impostors stealing gamertags from the new Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer, and posing as members of the development team over Xbox Live. Apparently, some people have been contacted by ‘DJVahn’ over Live – which is one of the gamertags featured in the trailer.
The real David ‘Vahn’ Vonderhaar from Treyarch had the following to say;
“When you are in development of the game, you are not using Xbox Live. You are using the development version of it. Think of it like a copy of the Xbox Live that only developers use. It’s called Partnernet. On Partnernet, we can make up as many gamertags as we want, as long as they are not taken.
That’s why you see WayneNoobton, DJVahn, and others in the video. If you get contacted by any of these people, it’s not us. We’ve contacted our account rep at Microsoft and he is looking into it. Thanks.”
There has been no further information as to what the scam actually involves. Remember; stranger=danger!
Source: Eurogamer
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12/08/2010 at 13:07
Member since: Dec 2009
WayneNoobton … genius!
12/08/2010 at 18:37
Member since: Jan 2009
My thoughts exactly
12/08/2010 at 13:07
Member since: Apr 2010
lol @ stranger=danger. made me think of the wonderful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AVQJ_3A5rA
The rest of the story doesn’t really interest me. IMO If you’re stupid enough to give up personal details or whatnot because someone says they’re from a dev-team and has zero proof other than a username, you deserve to get a virtual spanking, so to speak.
12/08/2010 at 13:11
Member since: Jun 2009
Lol Remember Remember a stranger = danger
12/08/2010 at 18:38
Member since: Jan 2009
But he offered me sweeties :(
12/08/2010 at 14:14
Member since: Dec 2008
The scam is the send a message saying “COD Black Ops will not have a subscription fee. Hahahaha foooooled you! PWNED!”
12/08/2010 at 14:52
Member since: Jul 2009
Methinks a system like that employed by the TV industry is required. If you see a telephone number on a fictional TV show, say you see a character dialling a number or a number flashes up on their call ID it’s not a number in service but comes from a list of reserved numbers which are not to be issued to the general public.
12/08/2010 at 15:12
Member since: Aug 2009
Stranger = Danger? I dont trust this article… i dont recognise the writer :P
12/08/2010 at 18:09
Member since: Aug 2008
never really thought of a separate LIVE or PSN for dev’s, i wonder if it runs better than the consumer version, hence so many online bugs in todays games at launch
12/08/2010 at 19:13
Member since: Aug 2009
Good point, but I would have thought that it was on the devs own dedicated servers and on a closed in house network.
12/08/2010 at 21:11
Member since: Jul 2009
The bugs with connections are from demand and no betas. The bugs in gameplay are from devs not really trying to break shit.