Is Microsoft asking you to update your email account?
Bendinggrass
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Is this legitimate?
I got this very strange request in my email:
| OUTLOOK account details 2022 |
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Dear OUTLOOK User:
Your Email account is outdated as of July 9th.
To Re-Update follow the link below Click here |
| Thank you for doing your part to defend our service |
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The link goes to opinionstage.com so definitely a scam. Besides I've never heard of "outdated email accounts" before.
No. It isn't addressed to you directly ("Dear Outlook user") and the link clearly isn't one owned by Mircorosoft - it wants to steal your log-in details. Flag as Phishing
https://www.itgovernance.co.uk/blog/5-ways-to-detect-a-phishing-email
There's a ton of phishing scams going on at any time. I get at least two or three pretending to be from various banks telling me to update my information every day. "Amazon" and "Paypal" also regularly show up with more ot less threatening emails about closing my account "unless you react at once!" There's also some nasty phone scams going on (automtic calls pretending to be from the IRS, FBI, etc.). If you answer to them you end up in oversea criminal call centers and those guys & gals are really nasty business. They prey on elderly and trusting people. Check out youtube channels like 'Scammer Payback' or 'Kitboga', they have plenty of documentation.
Thank you, everybody. Much appreciated.
Randy
Suspicious it is. And quite likely foney.
Any politician able to get something effective done about these types of things, gets my vote.
...I get a few supposedly from MacAfee. I haven't used their software or services for over a decade. I've also got similar scam emails supposedly from Norton and Amazon as well but a quick check of the sender address usually confirms its a scam.
Lately a new scam has appeared, one using the normal mail that is targeted at us seniors in which you are sent notices that sound all official telling you about deadlines & such for your coverage but are just private insurance companies trying to lure people into those expensive and convoluted Medicare Advantage plans. If one even looks "legitimate", I contact the SSA or Medicare to verify it, and pretty much every time it turns out to be a scam.
I have been getting a lot of those lately. Strangely I don't have a MacAfee account and a quick mouseover of the address is a lot of random characters at strange sites. I don't even open them; just move them tp my ever growing spam folder.
Since I delete all my emails I scan through them. Read the ones from only people I know. Delete them. For any emails that stay on the online server after 180 days, the government doesn't need a warrant to look at them. This includes drafts, documents, and photos. So don't store that stuff there.
It used to seem that those advertisements came only around renewal time, but now they seem to be "whenever". I toss them immediately unless it's from my choice of Advantage Plan.
Yes, I have an Advantage Plan. But so far I've been satisfied, although not particularly happy with it. It works. Most of my prescription costs are covered (thank God I don't require any drug so expensive that it exceeds the pay-out half way through the year). My hospital visits have been mostly taken care of but I still have to shell out a few hundred here & there to keep the hospital in the black, or to pay that damn daily-rate TV cable bill for three days of basic cable trapped in a bed with hoses poking out of me. It would be cheaper for them to sedate me for three days while they do unspeakable things to my body. Yeah, my plan works, but I don't have very good dental or eye coverage.
And each year around renewal time I have to try to decipher the new coverage manual and recalculate how sick I'm going to be in the coming year.
...I have such a plan through my state due to my extremely meagre SS benefit (nowhere near even the "average" ) It actually covers thing's pretty well including the Medicare monthly premium (which skyrocketed this year). When I took that bad fall a few years ago all I had to pay for was an insulin shot (34$) as the meds they had me on interacted with Metformin which I was still on at the time. The total charges would have been about 17,500$.
Most of the inexpensive private ones I've looked at have lousy coverage, huge out network outlays, along with a laundry list of restrictions an conditions not treated. To get the level of coverage I have through the state programme, I'm looking at premiums that are upwards of 400$ - 600$ a month (the high end being more than my rent).
Oh, and that's in addition to the standard 171$ Medicare monthly premium.
You know I get mine thru the AARP for zero dollars. The only thing that kills me is the donut hole. My Trulicity jumps from 47 dollars to over 237 or more. and I'm in the donut hole right now. All my other meds are just a few dollars. I'll have to pay for 7 days if I go to the hospital and the rest is covered. Oh, they take out the medicare premium right off the top.
I've had nothing from Microsoft and I do have a hotmail account (still addressed as hotmail, still works). My main email account is Gmail and did have a series of messages from Google asking me whether I still want to receive emails from DAZ and also the DAZ-Deals promo emails. I said yes I do but then started worrying what I had agreed to.
My personal (!) golden rule: never check "yes" when a message from google comes up asking you to agree to ANYTHING! Their software is so advanced, they should know the answer anyway, so no need to ask you which makes it sure it's a scam.
There is alot of piracy on the World Wide Web. For some people this is the only way to make a living for others it is a power trip. My suggestion go on Youtube and learn a little internet security it will help you stay out of trouble.
The way it was worded suggested that they would block those emails from DAZ as spam unless I agreed to continue receiving them. As you say, I don't like clicking yes on anything, Google or anyone else.
I have been receiving those emails from Google as well - for several of the regular e-zines. Just once per.
yes, I got one on a Renderosity gmail too but it was from Renderosity with a gmail query so nothing suspicious, get a very similar one on anything it deems spam where you can mark not spam.
was not a separate email
Totally bogus, although I ignore most such things in any case. I do have an MS email account and they, even though the email is from MS itself, put almost all new mail in their Mail app junk folder. Even so, the email you got is real spam, not spam from overzealous flagging.
Apparently there's some new PayPal and US Post Office scams going around. I just got a message saying I've been charged $899.99 for some obscure service. It had PayPal logos on it. But the tip off was in the sender's adress. It was some obscure adress and had a .in code ( meaning it came from India). The Post Office one claimed I had a package due and asked me to click on the tracking number and confirm my address. Shouldn't the Post Office have my addess? Straight to the trash with that one.
Never click on any email you're not 100% sure of. Also never return any phone calls that come from someone you don't know. The IRS, Social Security Admin and FTC other government agencies will NOT call. Insted they send letters. If you call back it tells the scammers the phone number is active and you'll just get more calls.
Also look at the spelling and grammer of any suspicious emails. Often scammers don't have a grasp of English spelling or grammer.
Definitley check out Scammer Payback and Kitboga You Tube Channels. Not only are they informative, but they're funny too!
Yeah, I got an email a couple of days ago saying I had some charge or other on a bankcard that I never had. Kinda figured it was phishing for phools.
Don't forget the phone scams. I am getting monthly Netflix late payment scams on my messages app in June.
I have never used Netflix, even when it was a box outside of CVS.
That is in addition to the sex solicitations.
Hmmm... I never get email sex solicitations.
Do you think they know something I don't?
Or perhaps my reputation preceeds me.
Or perhaps it's that other reputation that preceeds me.
Or maybe I just don't wander in the right dark alleys.
Maybe you live in the wrong area... I live out in the countryside. There's maybe ten houses scattered around the fields, some vacant and others occupied by senior citizens and every now and then I get messages (with pictures) from women that look like they were in their twenties and thirties, that they are living within half a mile of me and they would like to meet...
Don't actually know what the elderly ladies in my neighborhood have in mind, sending me pictures taken fifty years ago....
What I find interesting is how many of them come from addesses ending in '.edu'. Makes me wonder what is being taught in higher education today.
I always assume it's because some of the kids are not as savvy as they think and are more likely to get their accounts compromised than the population at large.
Yeah, my son in the day managed to kill a series of my computers, and then his, everytime he came within five feet of them. He is now a lot more cautious as a parent now.
Dear DAZ user peoples:
Today our attention has been shown that your user account knowledge has been in default.
To avoid unhappy suspension of suspicious doing it is kindly important that you email us the following information words to confirm that you are actual.
Please send immediately:
1- Email login information
2- First five number digits of social security
8- $500 of Apple giving cards
4- Bank account numbers
6- last four number digits of social security
3- copy of your signature
8- copy of driver's certificate and document giving power of attorney to us.
It is important that you right away send this information to us to avoid police action and keep safe out of jail for you and family.
Send information to: www.notanotherphishingscamwepromise.com
Thanks many times for you.
Ah, that's probably a scam. I mean, 1,2,8 ... surely DAZ can count? Right?
Does understanding the implication of time zones require the ability to count?
Understanding time zones actually requires a degree in advanced mathematics.