Suspicious message from a supposed Xiaomi employee

by TheMadcore

I do not know if this falls under the rules of this subreddit, but I think it's important to warn about this.

I received a message from a user telling me that he is an internal employee of Xiaomi and responsible for the MiBox project, and asking me for the serial number of the device to send me a patch to fix the disk problems.

I find it extremely suspicious and I though maybe other users are receiving it. The user in question is u/cytherea900204, without posts, with a low karma, and created a few days ago. Looks like a scam.

Please, be careful.

UPDATE: This user send me another message as an answer to a message where I tell him I think it's a scam:

We are planing to upgrade the second Oreo OTA one month later, before rolling out, we want to check if we resolve the bug you mentioned. We fix two issues about U-DISK 1)UTF8 2) failed to detect NTFS format.

The way he wrote it make all of this more suspicious to me.

serpentxx

yep, dont trust anything that isnt OTA

braverthanbrave

What can he do with the device serial number?

Invunche

That's a porn username.

Ausernameneeded

Thanks for the info.

I'm sure your aware of it, but for other people. If there was a patch, it would be sent OTA to everyone. If it was a "test" patch, it would be sent OTA to the beta users.

There is no way Xiaomi would send anything out individually (or in group form) to Reddit users.

Edit. I just don't understand what a serial number would provide him. Other than a "doesn't seem to work" and then sending a malware or something.

BV1717

Don't trust it report the user to the mods and ignore messages from this person. It is most likely a scam

piiggggg

Give him a fake series and see it's true or not

loonling

I'm on mobile at the moment.

Can you cross post this to /r/mibox/ please. Thanks!

flipside1o1

its kinda related but when i joined the shieldtv preview program i had to give my serial number so id be added to the beta group, but this does sound like a dodgy way of doing it so thanks for flagging

CTU

Sadly I was foolish enough to fall for it, then I saw there was a samll update sent OTA and I am worried guessing from reading this that it is not legit, but not sure what to do regarding that update

danielcar

Only the paranoid survive, but I would give it a go, since knowing your serial number is harmless.