Tech: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing

Subject: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 11:14 AM

Dear Account User
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 are sending 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.
Due to the congestion in all Hotmail users and removal of all unused Hotmail Accounts, Hotmail would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.
* Username: .............................. * Password: ................................ * Date of Birth: ............................ * Country Or Territory: ................
After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

Sincerely,The Windows Live Hotmail Team

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Oh sure! Sent by "[e-mail]".... sure sounds like a businiess addy to me! Not to mention the GREAT copy-writing job composing the message.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 03:52 PM

hee hee!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: Peace
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 04:03 PM

Do ya have to send yer bank account number also?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 05:07 PM

Don't forget the routing number and all the credit card numbers too!
(Yer mothers maiden name?)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 03:01 AM

In Alaska we have General Communications, Inc. as one of our main providers. Several times this year I've gotten something of the sort that you refer to, although they asked only for my current email address and password (of all things!). It is sent under the correct gci.net url.

I have not responded to the email, of course, but after the second time I called GCI and asked if by chance it was theirs. They said No, that they were aware of it and wree trying to track it so they could shut it down.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: Peace
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 03:09 AM

Would be nice if they blanket informed their customers. To your e-mail address. Sheesh. That's like Google knowing it's got screwed up chat or e-mail and saying NOTHING. A Aitches.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 09:23 AM

Eb, it might LOOK like it came from the correct url/mail address, but if you look a little more closely (look at the headers, or right-click on the addy to copy shortcut and paste the result somewhere to look at it but not answer it), it's probably a "spoofed" address nothing like the one it should be.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 12:39 PM

If it comes again, Susan, I'll check.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Windows Live Team' Hotmail Phishing
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 07:59 PM

I found a similar message in my Trash recently. The address link in the email showed the ISP address, but waving mouse over gave another, very strange address! I've learnt to always check Trash before emptying since I found a regularly received newsletter there sometime back.

Next time I went to ISP site I saw a warning about the phishing email, telling folks who has replied to immediately change their password. I assume there are similar warnings on other ISP sites.

sandra

Strangely enough I found a newsletter I sent in Trash a few days ago. I've been sending that newsletter for over 12 months, always using the info@ club's website address & its the first (& I hope last) time it's ever happened. One of Life's Little Mysteries.