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So many people on the internet fall victim to a preventable scam. It’s becoming far too common and out of control. Last night, as I was playing UNO on Xbox Live with a couple of friends, someone brought to my attention that there is a supposed website when one could receive up to “5000 Microsoft Points an hour”. Being skeptical, I visited the site and looked at the page source. After noticing that the script on the page captures your email address and password and then saves it to a publicly available .TXT file on his website, I immediately knew to not do it. Here’s what the site looks like…

Looks innocent enough, right? Wrong, the website claims…

I was recently hired to work at the Microsoft Corporation as a customer support agent.
I was given access to thousands of microsoft point codes and I figure this company is run by the richest man in the world…
So I took about fourty codes with me and I’m offering them out to you guys for free =)

All you have to do is sign in with your windows live ID and password then the points will be loaded onto your account.

Wow, for someone being a Microsoft employee, I would think you’d know to capitalize your company’s name and that the number “40” is spelt forty. A huge giveaway right there!

People’s information is being stolen and what’s even scarier is that they probably don’t even know.

If you look at the website’s page source, you’ll see a link to money.txt which is in fact, the results of the email addresses and passwords captured by the form on the page! Don’t believe me, take a look at this. It’s current as of 8:30 PM EST today. I edited out the passwords and IP address for security reasons. Oh, and the last entry is me just to show you what the functions of the form on the site are able to do.

If you find your email address or any of your credentials on this list, PLEASE change your password IMMEDIATELY. Failure to do so could result in your email account or personal information being compromised.