http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=185295

Today Microsoft will be cracking down on Xbox Live's "most serious" cheaters who have tampered with their Gamescore and Achievements - by setting their Gamerscore down to zero.

As if that wasn't bad enough, says Xbox Live foot soldier Major Nelson, offenders will also be labelled a cheater on Xbox.com and on their gamercard, so everyone can point and laugh at them being caught.

Cheaters can expect the following actions from The Microsoft Police:

• Resetting the entire Gamerscore for an account to zero
  
• The account will be unable to regain all previously obtained achievements and Gamerscore, however, the players will have the ability to gain future Achievements by earning them fairly, like the majority of the Xbox LIVE community does
  
• The account will be clearly labelled as a cheater for the community to view on xbox.com. You can see an example here. The personal view of the gamercard will be labelled as well.

Does finishing Halo 3 Legendary with three camping mates count as cheating? If so our weekend might not turn out to be as productive as we thought...

How dare they do this to people who have paid hard earned money for a subsciption of a mediocre online service. If people want to cheat let them cheat. They are only cheating themselves, no need to police the world.

How do you cheat and get your gamerscore up?

I think this is great :D
but ... how do you cheat on a console game ?
it's not like there's a gameshark for 360 games =D

Why not let someone play the games for you under your account and get the scores up.

"im a dirty cheat"

"cheaterMCcheat"

haha that gamer tag is awesome i want one!

Not sure if people know this but the 360 has been hacked for a while now. There are people playing on live with bootleg versions that may be modified etc. So yes there is a "gameshark". Other forms of cheating include messing with save files so that you get credit for a game that someone else beat.

^ thanks for the info .. i didn't know that :)

I don't fully understand the obsession with achievements and gamescore. Do people actually care that much about them that they have to cheat to get them? Do other people care if you cheated to get a higher gamerscore?

Sounds good to me... but I wonder how accurate they are... will there be mass reports of false positivies....