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The email messages below: "Reactivate Your Email Account", are phishing scams designed to steal Microsoft Hotmail/Live/Outlook user names and passwords. The email messages were not sent by Microsoft, but by cybercriminals, whose intentions are to gain access to Microsoft email account users' accounts and use it for malicious purposes.
Subject: REACTIVATE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT!!!Attention;In compliance with the email upgrade instructions from Microsoft Corporation and WWW email domain host, all unverified email accounts would be suspended for verification.To avoid suspension of your email account and also to retain all email Contents, please perform one time automatic verification by completing the online verification form.Please CLICK HERE for the online verification form.As a confirmation of complete and successful verification, you shall be automatically be redirected to your email web page.Please move this message to your inbox, if found in bulk folder. Please do this for all your email accounts.Thank you.WWW. mail Support Team.© 2014 Microsoft Corporation.----------Attention;In compliance with the email upgrade instructions from Microsoft Corporation and your email domain host, all unverified email accounts would be suspended for verification.To avoid suspension of your email account, and also to retain all email contents, please perform a one time automatic verification by completing the online verification form.Please CLICK HERE for the online verification form.As a confirmation of complete and successful verification, you shall be automatically redirected to your email web page.Please do this for all your email accounts.Thank you.Email Support Team.© 2013 Microsoft Corporation.----------
Subject: REACTIVATE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT!!!
Attention;
In compliance with the email upgrade instructions from Microsoft Corporation and WWW email domain host, all unverified email accounts would be suspended for verification.
To avoid suspension of your email account and also to retain all email Contents, please perform one time automatic verification by completing the online verification form.
Please CLICK HERE for the online verification form.
As a confirmation of complete and successful verification, you shall be automatically be redirected to your email web page.
Please move this message to your inbox, if found in bulk folder. Please do this for all your email accounts.
Thank you.WWW. mail Support Team.© 2014 Microsoft Corporation.
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In compliance with the email upgrade instructions from Microsoft Corporation and your email domain host, all unverified email accounts would be suspended for verification.
To avoid suspension of your email account, and also to retain all email contents, please perform a one time automatic verification by completing the online verification form.
As a confirmation of complete and successful verification, you shall be automatically redirected to your email web page.
Please do this for all your email accounts.
Thank you.Email Support Team.© 2013 Microsoft Corporation.----------
If you receive email messages like these, please go directly to your email account instead of clicking on the links in these email messages. If there is anything wrong with your account, it will be shown to you after signing into account.
If you were tricked by one of these malicious phishing scams, please change your Hotmail/Live/Outlook immediately.
If you are unable to, click here to report it to Microsoft.
This scam is similar to the following:
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I did enter my password. What should I do now? Should I change my password?
Yes, change your password.
How do I reactivate a live.com email address?
Try logging into the inactive account using the same username and password, and follow the instructions that come after.Also, try using the Forgot Password option to recover your password if you have forgotten it.
My hotmail/outlook account has been suspended and can't receive or send emails, how do I get it back?I was silly enough to click on one of the scam emails to re-activate my account.
Click here for help.
