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WARNING Xbox Live Scammer ### Situation Clarified
Now I do not personally know Helacool360, but this message popped up in the xbox forums today, reckognizing the name I decided to post it here...

###### XBOX.COM FORUM POST ######

So, I turn on my 360 the other night, and I see I have a message. I see who it is from, but don't recognize the name... Helacool360. So, I begin to read it...

"Hey this is the only achievement I need to complete PGR3. If I get you a 1000 in any game that I have 1000 in, would you consider recovering my account and getting the last PGR achievement for me."

I ask myself, Who is this guy, what achievement is he talking about, and what in the world is he talking about recovering account and getting me 1000 in any game. Then I begin to look at what achievement he is missing for PGR3. The tournament qualifier one I got he doesn't have.

Wow, has the gaming society stooped to this low to start randomly asking people to get achievements for them. Is this even possible? Wouldn't I have to go over to the guys house and do it for him?

Has anyone else ever gotten a message like this? How should I even begin to respond to to this request. I did a search on these forums, and he does post on here, so if you are Helacool360 with a gamerscore over 28k please explain yourself. I am unlcear on what your intent here was.

Written by gamertag : San Grial

###### END XBOX.COM FORUM MESSAGE ######


I think this is worth stating to keep our local community safe, and the discourage achievement point cheating (no matter how fricken weak / pathetic it is) :)

This post can be read at: http://forums.xbox.com/5327041/ShowPost.aspx

I have edited this to say that if this is actually false, I apologize. I am just reposting it here becuase it raised a level of concern to me.
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I can personally vouch for Helacool360 as far as trying to be a scammer. He is not.

As for whether he truly wrote this message looking for help, only he can answer that.

FWIW, the only missing achievement he has for PGR3 is to qualify for a tournament, which the above gamer managed to do once.

Z
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thats a bunch of crap and is why i dont go to xbox.com forums
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Quote by zoboa:


I can personally vouch for Helacool360 as far as trying to be a scammer. He is not.

As for whether he truly wrote this message looking for help, only he can answer that.

FWIW, the only missing achievement he has for PGR3 is to qualify for a tournament, which the above gamer managed to do once.

Z



What the hell, this was not me and I do apologize. My friend was on my name and he admitted to sending messages from my name. I dont know why he did this but he got a good laugh from it but I dont see it as funny. Again I do apologize for the mix-up.
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Quote by Helacool360:


What the hell, this was not me and I do apologize. My friend was on my name and he admitted to sending messages from my name. I dont know why he did this but he got a good laugh from it but I dont see it as funny. Again I do apologize for the mix-up.



Like I said, I don't really know you and I didn't mean to offend. I just thought that this should be cleared up...

Normally I just scan right past these things, but after actually knowing the gamertag from this site, I thought it was worth posting here. I apologize if you were offended I hope you do not hold this against me.

Just trying to look out for my local ohio gamers and such...

P.S. > Kick your friend in the nutz, you don't want this kind of crap getting you banned from xbox live.

EDIT:

I have changed the title of this thread, so you don't look like a dick.
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its all good hela, i get some random messages from people all the time, then like 20 minutes later another messages apologizing for their roommate.. just make sure you beat him up ;)
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Quote by hockeypuck55:


its all good hela, i get some random messages from people all the time, then like 20 minutes later another messages apologizing for their roommate.. just make sure you beat him up ;)



Yea I plan on it. I had to explain myslef in the xbox.com forums also and most thought I was lying so good thing you all believe me. Thanks for bringing that to my attention though so I could clear it up.
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Quote by Helacool360:


Yea I plan on it. I had to explain myslef in the xbox.com forums also and most thought I was lying so good thing you all believe me. Thanks for bringing that to my attention though so I could clear it up.




I added a little clarity for the little girls over there to try and understand. It probably went over their heads though...LOL

Z
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Okay, I couldn't resist joining your XboxOhio forum. Yes, I am San Grial, the one who posted that message on Xbox.com.

It was definitely an out of the blue message I received on Sunday when I logged into Live. I didn't know what to make of it, so I thought it would be interesting to see if anyone had received anything like it before.

If it was wrongfully sent to me by a friend, so be it, I really don't care either way.

Albeit, this is not the best post to start out on a new forum, so I'll go over to the New Member section and introduce myself. I live in Kettering, OH.
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Quote by San Grial:


Okay, I couldn't resist joining your XboxOhio forum. Yes, I am San Grial, the one who posted that message on Xbox.com.

It was definitely an out of the blue message I received on Sunday when I logged into Live. I didn't know what to make of it, so I thought it would be interesting to see if anyone had received anything like it before.

If it was wrongfully sent to me by a friend, so be it, I really don't care either way.

Albeit, this is not the best post to start out on a new forum, so I'll go over to the New Member section and introduce myself. I live in Kettering, OH.





LOL Don't worry about it. It is pretty relaxed in here. HC is a good guy and works his butt off to get all his achivements, so I believe him.

Welcome aboard!

Z
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WOW that was alot of reading I just did :D

for a secont I thought helacool was a cheater.
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welcome san grial, everyone here is cool so make yourself at home
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