Phishing or Fake Emails - "Account Close Alert/We require you to Verify Your Email Address"

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Phishing or Fake Emails - Account Close Alert We require you to Verify Your Email Address

The email messages below: "We require you to verify your email address," are fakes and were not sent from any legitimate organizations like Google, Microsoft or AOL. The messages are fakes or phishing scams designed by cyber-criminals to steal their victims’ user names and passwords, by tricking them into entering this information on fake or phishing websites.

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Copies of the Fake or Phishing Email Messages

Dear User,

We require you to verify your email address with one, simple click, to confirm the validity of your account.

Thanks again for choosing our Service

Sincerely,
Hotmail Service Team

From: Microsoft account team (account-security-noreply@ account.microsoft.com)
Sent: 08 August 2013 10:48AM

I trust account-security-noreply @account.microsoft.com. Always show content.

Dear User,

We require you to verify your email address with one, simple click ,to confirm the validity of your account.

Customer Care Team
Case number: ******* ---

We require you to verify your email address with one, simple click, to confirm the validity of your account.

Verification

Thank you for using Google.

Dear User,
We require you to verify your email address with one, simple click ,to confirm the validity of your account.

Customer Care Team
Case number: 1097654

Most of the links in these email messages will take you to the fake or phishing websites below:

  • http://windowslivememberupdate .yolasite.com/
  • http://outlookliveaccountupdate .yolasite.com/
  • http://securitylegitimateverification .yolasite.com/

So, if you receive any of these email messages, please do not follow the instructions in it and delete it.

If you were tricked into entering your user name and password on one of these websites, please change the password for that account immediately.

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May 9, 2017 at 7:01 PM by
Phishing or Fake Emails - "Account Close Alert/We require you to Verify Your Email Address"
an anonymous user from: Resinard, Castries, Saint Lucia

I am told that my account was hacked and has violated the outlook agreement, and my account was suspended, everywhere I tried to recover, I was told to try again, or there was an error etc. I have been trying for about five days and the same thing I was told when verifying my account, I can get some of my emails, and I can send emails, but not the normal way, please look into that for me.
Anthony.

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May 10, 2017 at 2:51 AM by
Phishing or Fake Emails - "Account Close Alert/We require you to Verify Your Email Address"
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The email that you have received about violating Outlook agreement is a fake, therefore, you should not have followed the instructions in it. Please change your Outlook password immediately.

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Dec 18, 2015 at 5:56 AM by
Phishing or Fake Emails - "Account Close Alert/We require you to Verify Your Email Address"
an anonymous user from: Needham, Massachusetts, United States

I received the following:
- - -
"Microsoft account team
Verify your email address
To finish setting up this Microsoft account, we just need to make sure this email address is yours.
Verify [email address removed]
Or you may be asked to enter this security code: 0671
If you didn't make this request, click here to cancel.
Thanks,
The Microsoft account team"
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I was on freelancer.com and I had bid on a project, the project creator sent me a document(which is not uncommon) and I did it and it said I didn't have Microsoft 365. I went onto sign up for a free month, received email to verify email, clicked the link, received another email and got more suspicious, I wound up Googling and I'm pretty sure this is a phishing attempt.

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Dec 18, 2015 at 9:18 AM by
Phishing or Fake Emails - "Account Close Alert/We require you to Verify Your Email Address"
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Please forward the email message to us at info@onlinethreatalerts.com, so we may research.

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Feb 23, 2015 at 9:13 PM by
Phishing or Fake Emails - "Account Close Alert/We require you to Verify Your Email Address"
an anonymous user from: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Whenever I have changed my password for any of my Outlook accounts within the last year, I have been receiving and e-mail from account-security-noreply @account.microsoft.com.
This has been what is going on with all of my Outlook e-mail accounts.
I think the reason that many people fall for these scams is that they do not understand domains. I have getting the account verification e-mail on all of my accounts on Outlook.com and Google.
It's a very clever trap.

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Oct 3, 2014 at 2:40 AM by
Phishing or Fake Emails - "Account Close Alert/We require you to Verify Your Email Address"
an anonymous user from: London, England, United Kingdom

Same with this. Warning Message!?
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Warning Message!
Hotmail Security Team (account-security-noreply @microsoft.com)
account-security-noreply @microsoft.com
Show contentI trust account-security-noreply @microsoft.com. Always show content.
Microsoft Account

Dear Hotmail User,

It has come to our notice that your account is not yet upgraded after several notice of verification you are yet to upgrade your account.
Kindly be informed that we'll not be held responsible for your account deactivation once you fail to upgrade your account after this Final Warning.to remove your account from our deactivation list kindly click Upgrade now below

To upgrade click: Upgrade Now

Click Here To Unblock Or Move This Message Inbox And Click Here To Verify.

WARNING: ACCOUNT OWNER THAT REFUSES TO UPDATE HIS/HER ACCOUNT AFTER 5 DAYS OF RECEIVING THIS WARNING WILL LOSE HIS OR HER ACCOUNT PERMANENTLY.DO NOT IGNORE THIS NOTICE.

Regards,
Thanks for using Outlook!
The Microsoft account team
Copyright © 2014 Microsoft.
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