Bill Gates holding our telephone numbers for ransom!

[Fragginz]

Tried to install the game and it said that I have been blocked (no reason given), it happened before for another time I tried to log into a microsoft program before I remember, no reasons given and I do not do any dodgy activities other than play games or surf youtube, seems that old bill gates lies and says you did something suspicious to force you to give him your telephone number. This ♥♥♥♥ is getting ridiculous. Seems that free 2 play games like warzone are farming data for sheckles, but now paying huge price for a mid game is not enough, they want to scrape every little bit of sheckle they can from you.

For this reason I say avoid this game at all costs, just to show the developers we will not accept this ♥♥♥♥, boycott the ♥♥♥♥ out of any game doing it please, do not set this as a new standard please.

[Sirius]

1st of all, it may be the company, but why the hate for Bill Gates specifically?
The dude did a lot to be argued and be upset about, but "holding your telephone numbers ransom", come on.

I have never, EVER had to "give my telephone number" to Microsoft to unlock something unless it was for 2-step verifications which I generally avoid unless for banking.

Sounds to me you have gotten some ransomware infestation on your computer.

We only have your word that you did nothing fishy, but it's the internet and people lie.
That stepmom porn last night could have done it.

And even if you don't lie about the grubby parts of the internet you frequent, is it possible that your computer was accessed by someone else? Son, little brother, etc?

You say no reason given, but then you say something about them telling you you did something suspicious?

If it's your Xbox account that is blocked, you might have gotten hacked and someone used the account until it was banned, but I'm just spitballing here, because nothing you say makes sense without actual information about the type of lockout and precise messages you get.

If it says Microsoft blocked you for whatever reason, try to go to Microsoft support to try and sort if out.

But telling us vague things about your number being held ransom is about as useless information wise as it gets, sorry.

[mai72]

lol, that bill gates

[WarBucks]

You can also go to microsoft.com and log in. Check the account section. then of that all looks good you can check the "xbox profile" portion

[Kitty Eater]

It's blocked, probably the email you're using is suspicious to them. That happened to me so I had to use another well known service and they took it without a problem.

[WarBucks]

Oh thats a good point. You know i changed the signon email for my microsoft account because someone in china was trying to brute force it.

The trick there is if the accounts really old it typically has the old pre-IMAP functions still enabled. So they try to sign in with an outlook program