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Have just received the following e-mail has anyone got it as well and is it a correct one.

From Windows Live™ Team ([email protected])
You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as junk
Sent: 10 May 2010 23:49:53
To: [email protected]

Dear Account Owner

This Email is from Hotmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every Hotmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety. we are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of Hotmail accounts so we are shutting down some Hotmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We send this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account.

* Username: ...............................
* Password: ................................
* Date of Birth: ............................
* Country Or Territory: ................

Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Sincerely,
The Windows Live Hotmail Team.

I know not to give out personnal details in request to emails, but just wanted verification. Haven't replied.

Helen

I don't know, I don't have an account...It sounds very dodgy to me and I especially don't like the threatening nature towards the end of the message.

Personally I would have deleted.

Gwyn

It's a scam - don't answer it!!!

If in doubt look at the phrasing.

For example the phrase 'we are having congestions' - not right is it!!

hi helen. you are right not to give out any info. i had a similar email supposedly from the halifax bank telling me unless i changed my password immediatley my on line acc would be suspended. i got onto the bank straight away and it was a scam, the bank said it would never ask for my password etc. so i think if you give out the details, some one else may then just be able to access you emails etc.
you have to on the ball these days all the time. my emails are split into 2 lots. junk and other. the computer sortts them for me and i can tell from the title in the junk pile mostly that they are just that.

if their is a customer care centre for hotmail, you could try contacting them and tell them exactly what and from whom you received.

good of you to alert others through here in the hope noone gets caught out.
thanks helen ,flo

I've had quite a lot of e-mails from banks asking for passwords etc or my account would be frozen.
I knew they were scams as I wasn't with them, and as Florence said, they would never ask for your password (or PIN number either)
I either sent them to the banks phishing scam address or deleted them.
They're now on my 'junk' list.

didnt Huia get this email?

its a scam!!!

AND she DID get caught out!
bob

most definately a phishing scam, so in your hotmail don't mark the emails as safe and report it as a phishing scam

Cheers

Rachelle

One way to check whether any email is a phishing one

.................. if it has a web address OR says "click here", hold the mouse pointer over that phrase.


The actual web address will show in a bar that appears.


You'd be amazed!



One thing to remember is that NO bank will ever ask you to provide information over the itnernet.



Huia was caught out by this Hotmail email, and it does carry a virus. She ahs had to go to another email address, change all her addresse, etc etc



sylvia