aimeraya Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Hello, these 2 days, i just received more than 5 strange messages on PSN, some are about "click ooxx to get free PSN card" and the others are just meaningless like "loser", "I'll eat your children's souls through their faces" or "Don't cry, sweeties". I asked some of my friends and they told me they received messages like above, too. I wonder there is some hacking activity on PSN or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skateak Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) I got a free code message but I wouldn't worry about it. It is just people being weirdos. Just report them and move on. I reported the message I got and Sony deleted it. Edited January 14, 2017 by skateak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I've received 3 group message adds about free psn codes, just report it as spam and block the user. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadiochao Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 About two weeks ago I got put into a 50-person group message on my US account. I only ever use that account for buying things, so I'm not sure where they got the name from. Anyway, that was named "Free PSN Codes!!!!!" or something, but I don't think there were any messages or links in it. Attempting to leave it kept giving me the message "Cannot leave group" and that persisted for a few days until it eventually let me. That might've been happening to other people too, since I was in the group for over a week before I logged in and realised, and barely anyone else had left in that time. It was strange, though, if only because it was sent to an account that nobody should really know about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowxSakura Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 6 minutes ago, Shadiochao said: About two weeks ago I got put into a 50-person group message on my US account. I only ever use that account for buying things, so I'm not sure where they got the name from. Anyway, that was named "Free PSN Codes!!!!!" or something, but I don't think there were any messages or links in it. Attempting to leave it kept giving me the message "Cannot leave group" and that persisted for a few days until it eventually let me. That might've been happening to other people too, since I was in the group for over a week before I logged in and realised, and barely anyone else had left in that time. It was strange, though, if only because it was sent to an account that nobody should really know about. If it's pretty old, they likely got it from either the database of usernames leaked a couple years ago, or even the psn hack from 2011. Even my JP account that I never play on and use to only download stuff has ended up in one of those group messages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBomb Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I got some people that send me friend requests, I accept them. 1 wanted to play a game that I didn't had, so I said I didn't had it, he then started calling me loser for not having the game, so I deleted him. (Also worth mention that I checked this guy here to see his profile but got a message saying he doesn't want to be checked here. Never seen that before.) The next one was 2 days after that. He asked for my name, my address and if we could use video chat. I though that was weird, I only answered the name but it was with the PSN Name, but the weirdest thing was that I checked is profile, just to see if we had any games that we could play. But he didn't had none. He was at level 1 with 0 trophies and he asked me that stuff. Just weird, so I deleted him too. Didn't knew we could report them, how do we do that, just so I can be prepared the next time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christine_uk Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I keep getting added to random group messages, no PSN offers or anything, usually just people posting insults to one another. Very random and pointless.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulzyc Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 There's a site where you can spam someone with a sh*t tons of bots messages with all random names, I won't tell the site because it can be really annoying to get troll by that. One of my friends had that and it's someone in his friendlist who did it and it send like 50 messages in a minute and almost froze his PS4.. Some people really have nothing else to do 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sofa King Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I got the free PSN code message about a year ago, just deleted it and blocked whoever sent it. Haven't seen another one since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 i got one of these a earlier this week, just ignored it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maisy Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 One of my Alt's got a message like that recently. Just delete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Clown Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Yup, I got placed in some group and the person left a bunch of messages about "Free PSN codes". It always happened when I was on my PS3 though, then I'd check on my PS4 and see the group thing. I just changed my settings to received messages from Friends Only. Oh yeah, they always ended with some weird "Add me if you play Overwatch/BF1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntenseFATE98 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I keep my message privacy settings to 'friends only' to avoid stuff like this 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigma999 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) Haven't received any strange messages on PSN recently or ever if i can recall . Just from my friends on PSN or ocassional people i encounter online but nothing offensive or suspicious , so luckily i'm good for now Edited January 14, 2017 by Sigma999 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remilia Scarlet Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) I used to get really creepy and disturbing messages talking about murder and eating the flesh of children. One of these people did nothing but sending creepy emojis, and at one point said they would track me down, rape me and kill my entire family. It was very scary stuff. Now I only receive messages from friends. Edited January 14, 2017 by AnimeDreama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaivRules Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamagingRob Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Got the PSN cards ones, but never anything like what you described. That's disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yowzagabowza Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Yes, in the last week I got two "free PSN codes" messages. Both were in a fifty person group and obviously fake so I just left the group. It's been years since that's happened and now it's twice in a week so something weird is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilanYildirim Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 (edited) I have, a lot. I blame @Lion of the Lolis and @TheYuriG for these though Creeppy bastards. Edited January 14, 2017 by MilanYildirim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigressLion Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 2 hours ago, MilanYildirim said: I have, a lot. I blame @Lion of the Lolis and @TheYuriG for these though Creeppy bastards. So is that a no to my free PSN card? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfBambam55 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 I keep getting these things called "friend requests...I understand the word request but wtf is a friend...sounds sketchy... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubanm3 Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 I've got one as well. Is it something to worry about? Those are funny, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alternatewarning Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 10 hours ago, kubanm3 said: I've got one as well. Is it something to worry about? Those are funny, though. I got messaged by the exact same person a few days ago. I asked her to leave me alone, she didn't do I blocked her right away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacks Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 I get weird invites to unofficial tournaments for Sports games worth "valuable cash prizes", people offering to shareplay trophies for me that they see me talking about, presumably, on other forums for, of course, a little money for their precious time (have only received two of those, though), and the occasional spam/phish that I delete/block/ignore. Don't see anything abstract like that, but i would probably just report and block if it did happen and the problem would shortly resolve itself in due time. Believe it or not, I think the most annoying out of anything I receive is people requesting that I earn trophies for THEM after they see me either on here offering advice to someone, or on other trophy sites. Brutality 101 in Arkham Knight was a pretty weird time for my inbox on PSN, since I got quite a few people asking me to shareplay it for them with various degrees of desperation, some even offering money. Funny thing about that trophy is that I don't even think I can pull it off with even 20% succession rate, even at the infamous exploit spot towards the end of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArK_TatiCo Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 17 hours ago, kubanm3 said: I've got one as well. Is it something to worry about? Those are funny, though. I got exactly the same message but from another "person?". the weird thing is i got this in a account that i only used to buy games 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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