Omar Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I have always had my message inbox only open to friends on PSN because I see little point in exchanging messages with people not even on my friend list other than having the typical salty fellow tell me I suck and curse some after I beat the living stuff out of them in whatever game so that's a non-issue here thanks for the heads-up though! I am terribly annoyed by the number of blank friend requests I get, which I do not accept under any circumstance, including those with a message which does not explain who they are. Maybe that will prevent some odds at being hit by this too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangisuckatgamin Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Don't set it to "No One" if you receive invites from friends to play... you won't ever get them. Friends Only folks. Delete anyone suspicious. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katt Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 wouldn't hurt to put a warning in the site as announcement. mods? also, thanks for the heads up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alantor32 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Thanks for the heads up as well. I changed my privacy settings to friends only, including friend requests from friends of my friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Better safe than sorry i suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Scary stuff. Nothing like a halloween message bricking your system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLilSheWolfx Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Funny enough I had a Female Bot try to scam me sent me a FR I checked their profile and instantly blocked them. I did wonder if they are linked to this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knightmare_1985 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Cheers mate! The first useful thread I’ve seen on here lol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S_y_n_e_IR_g_Y Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Thanks for the heads up, i hope this will be fixed soon..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadiantFlamberge Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Thanks for the heads-up, MidnightDragon. Sony, deal with this... right NOW. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady_Galleth2 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 This is a big issue, shouldn't Sony send out messages and notify everyone what steps to take to minimize the casualty? If our system to brick because of this issue, cant we sue Sony or demand a new PS4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpg49ers Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 Thanks for the warning. Used SONY website: https://my.playstation.com/ Sign in > Profile > Privacy Settings 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilpain97 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 4 hours ago, Sergen said: I doubt we'd ever see anything like this happen on Xbox... How could Sony really fuck up their network so much that receiving a message causes you to have to factory reset your console? I have made my messages as "friends only" for now, but surely it should be patched out immediately and they should look more into the messages to make sure shit like this can never happen again. If you read more on it, text is complicated to implement. A reddit user explains how complicated it can get. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHpokinsn Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 (edited) Damn, I just posted about this elsewhere. It really doesn’t sound possible but maybe it is. I’ve had it set to friends only for a long time. Seems like one thing after another these days. Edited October 13, 2018 by DarkHpokinsn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crzy Minus Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) Set my Messages to Friends Only, will change it back to normal until further notice till this issue is fixed. It's even scarier when as of late I've been getting messages from obvious scammers I've been ignoring, so yeah this being a thing now required action. Edited October 14, 2018 by Crzy Minus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelloycat Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Thanks for the heads up. Been meaning to change the setting to Friends Only anyways as I get spam messages every so often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super-Fly Spider-Guy Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 FYI, since no one seems to be mentioning it, this exploit thing doesn't seem to *actually* brick consoles. Booting into safe mode and rebuilding the database seems to fix the problem for most people, as far as I could find anyway. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Oddly enough I just opened back up my messages for all a week or so ago and instantly got a message from a random. I noticed at least 10 of my "friends" befriended this bot. It's a trap guys! Guess it's time to close messaging from strangers again! Thxs SONY! Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightstream88 Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 I rarely get messages anyway. Only kept available to anyone just in case someone from this was going to message me, but guess if there doing this I just changed it to friends only for the time being, since with my current luck that probably would've been the next thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolarCat02 Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 15 minutes ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said: Oddly enough I just opened back up my messages for all a week or so ago and instantly got a message from a random. I noticed at least 10 of my "friends" befriended this bot. It's a trap guys! Guess it's time to close messaging from strangers again! Thxs SONY! Hide contents Do people really fall for these sorts of profiles? "Check out my naked picks." Sheesh. Then come the requests for money. Then you find out it's a guy. Anyone who is genuinely this desperate would use Tinder, not the Playstation Network... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJ9999vr Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 22 minutes ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said: Oddly enough I just opened back up my messages for all a week or so ago and instantly got a message from a random. I noticed at least 10 of my "friends" befriended this bot. It's a trap guys! Guess it's time to close messaging from strangers again! Thxs SONY! Hide contents Got a friend request from this exact same account too a few days ago, seems to be the same for my brother too (which haven’t touched the PS4 for about a year). This account must be spamming everyone. Glad i deleted it, especially now that this bricking stuff is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Just now, OJ9999vr said: Got a friend request from this exact same account too a few days ago, seems to be the same for my brother too (which haven’t touched the PS4 for about a year). This account must be spamming everyone. Glad i deleted it, especially now that this bricking stuff is going on. Yeah, first they friend you. Then they message you from within. Tricky bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) 36 minutes ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said: Oddly enough I just opened back up my messages for all a week or so ago and instantly got a message from a random. I noticed at least 10 of my "friends" befriended this bot. It's a trap guys! Guess it's time to close messaging from strangers again! Thxs SONY! Hide contents I received a friend request from this PSN account as well! In fact (if I can recall correctly), I received the FR at least two weeks before this warning was called out. I declined it as this user profile looked very suspicious to me. Also, what kind of user on PSN sends FRs to randoms with the message "hello, I like you."? *insert disgusted image/gif here* After that I recalled that my friend request setting were set to "anyone" so then I changed it to "friends of friends". Edited October 14, 2018 by Skeptical69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangisuckatgamin Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 1 hour ago, SolarCat02 said: Do people really fall for these sorts of profiles? "Check out my naked picks." Sheesh. Then come the requests for money. Then you find out it's a guy. Anyone who is genuinely this desperate would use Tinder, not the Playstation Network... Yes because most people are thirsty AF. It's the way of life unfortunately... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLilSheWolfx Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 5 hours ago, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said: Oddly enough I just opened back up my messages for all a week or so ago and instantly got a message from a random. I noticed at least 10 of my "friends" befriended this bot. It's a trap guys! Guess it's time to close messaging from strangers again! Thxs SONY! Hide contents This is the female bot I was referring to above I screenshot the account and shared to twitter after I blocked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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