Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The email message below: "Attempts have been made to access your email in a suspicious manner." is a fake. The email message was not sent by Microsoft and is a phishing scam designed to steal your Microsoft Hotmail, Live or Outlook user name and password. So, do not click on the link or follow the instructions in the email message.
From: HOTMAIL CUSTOMER CARE <kooiman0847 @msn.com>Date: January 13, 2014 at 23:16:45 GMT+7Subject: RE: RESET CONFIRMATION™2014Dear User,Attempts have been made to access your email in a suspicious manner.to prevent shutdown of your email for security reasons, click Show content on the yellow header in this message and click below to sign in your email from your home or work computer. After you sign in, your email will be verified and security will be upgraded.Click hereThanks.Microsoft Team======
From: HOTMAIL CUSTOMER CARE <kooiman0847 @msn.com>Date: January 13, 2014 at 23:16:45 GMT+7Subject: RE: RESET CONFIRMATION™2014
Dear User,
Attempts have been made to access your email in a suspicious manner.to prevent shutdown of your email for security reasons, click Show content on the yellow header in this message and click below to sign in your email from your home or work computer. After you sign in, your email will be verified and security will be upgraded.
Click hereThanks.Microsoft Team
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The link in this email message will take you to the fake Microsoft Hotmail website below if you click the links within it:hxxp://www.iphysio.co .za/includes/Sigina.html
If you enter your Hotmail user name and password on this phishing website, it will be sent to the cybercriminals behind this scam, via the website below:hxxp://www.formbuddy.com/cgi-bin/form.pl
If you were tricked into entering your user name and password on the fake website, please change your password immediately.
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My friend got this email and responded. Now she isn't getting any new emails even though she changed her password.
Tell her to try sending herself an email message for testing purposes.
This problem is back, as now Microsoft are trying to move people over to the new outlook and 'one Microsoft' concept for all accounts similar to google.This time the hackers don't even send email, they seem to be creating pages which are not Microsoft, but look like the image above.user logs in and can't resets password, receive a code to mobile phone.User goes back to login and cant so keeps trying and then tries to send the SMS to phone, but the page doesn't allow it as the hacker has changed the phone number.Hotmail support said the email account had been compromised by someone in Mexico!!! No in my country!Cheers and beware.
I have got one right now stating I have a virus in my files. Everything else conceptually is the same. Who can I send it to for handling?Thanks,Joanne.
Just delete the email. You can help others by sharing this article with them.
I can't log into my hotmail account and can't change password.
