Stange mail
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I just got Microsoft/Hotmail/Live.com an e-mail from saying that I requested password reset for my Windows Live ID (which I did not). It looks like it was sent from genuine address and all the links in the mail look right but I'm still suspicious (after all I didn't ask to reset my password). From: Microsoft Customer Support postmaster@live.com Subject: Reset your Windows Live ID password To: ********@hotmail.com Hello ********@hotmail.com: You recently asked to reset your Windows Live ID password by e-mail. Follow the instructions below to reset your password, or to cancel your password reset request. TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. IF YOU DID NOT REQUEST TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. Thank you, Windows Live ID Customer Support NOTE:Please do not reply to this message, which was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Now:
- Why don't they call me by my name (they have that information) but by my e-mail address?
- Why did they send password reset request to the mail account for which I "want" to reset password?
- Usually when I get those kinds of mails they say to ignore them if I didn't ask for the reset, but this one explicitly says that I should fallow the (other) link?
- Why do I need copy-past link to address bar and not just click on the link?
I changed my password immediately using setting panel, but still I'm curious about that mail.
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I just got Microsoft/Hotmail/Live.com an e-mail from saying that I requested password reset for my Windows Live ID (which I did not). It looks like it was sent from genuine address and all the links in the mail look right but I'm still suspicious (after all I didn't ask to reset my password). From: Microsoft Customer Support postmaster@live.com Subject: Reset your Windows Live ID password To: ********@hotmail.com Hello ********@hotmail.com: You recently asked to reset your Windows Live ID password by e-mail. Follow the instructions below to reset your password, or to cancel your password reset request. TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. IF YOU DID NOT REQUEST TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. Thank you, Windows Live ID Customer Support NOTE:Please do not reply to this message, which was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Now:
- Why don't they call me by my name (they have that information) but by my e-mail address?
- Why did they send password reset request to the mail account for which I "want" to reset password?
- Usually when I get those kinds of mails they say to ignore them if I didn't ask for the reset, but this one explicitly says that I should fallow the (other) link?
- Why do I need copy-past link to address bar and not just click on the link?
I changed my password immediately using setting panel, but still I'm curious about that mail.
A good spam - the link may be fake (e.g. the link does not have to be the same as the text you can see). Just go and log in normally directly from the website and if it succeeds the email is definitely fake.
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
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I just got Microsoft/Hotmail/Live.com an e-mail from saying that I requested password reset for my Windows Live ID (which I did not). It looks like it was sent from genuine address and all the links in the mail look right but I'm still suspicious (after all I didn't ask to reset my password). From: Microsoft Customer Support postmaster@live.com Subject: Reset your Windows Live ID password To: ********@hotmail.com Hello ********@hotmail.com: You recently asked to reset your Windows Live ID password by e-mail. Follow the instructions below to reset your password, or to cancel your password reset request. TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. IF YOU DID NOT REQUEST TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. Thank you, Windows Live ID Customer Support NOTE:Please do not reply to this message, which was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Now:
- Why don't they call me by my name (they have that information) but by my e-mail address?
- Why did they send password reset request to the mail account for which I "want" to reset password?
- Usually when I get those kinds of mails they say to ignore them if I didn't ask for the reset, but this one explicitly says that I should fallow the (other) link?
- Why do I need copy-past link to address bar and not just click on the link?
I changed my password immediately using setting panel, but still I'm curious about that mail.
Mladen Jankovic wrote:
curious about that mail
Smells really fishy :suss:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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A good spam - the link may be fake (e.g. the link does not have to be the same as the text you can see). Just go and log in normally directly from the website and if it succeeds the email is definitely fake.
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Links are not fake and that makes me more suspicious. E-mail is pure text (no html, that's why it says I have to copy-paste the links and not jus click them) so there is chance for faking real URL. I googled for it and some people suggested that it is possible that somebody tried too many times to login on my account with wrong password, which makes me a little nervous. Of course I immediately changed the password just in case.
modified on Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:06 PM
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Links are not fake and that makes me more suspicious. E-mail is pure text (no html, that's why it says I have to copy-paste the links and not jus click them) so there is chance for faking real URL. I googled for it and some people suggested that it is possible that somebody tried too many times to login on my account with wrong password, which makes me a little nervous. Of course I immediately changed the password just in case.
modified on Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:06 PM
Mladen Jankovic wrote:
Links are not fake and that makes me more suspicious. E-mail is pure text
I had a spam mail like that once, too. I took a closer look and it had a HTML section with malicious links, but the HTML was incorrect and even the MIME header was malformed, so my mail client showed the text-only version (which was unmodified and and still had the real links).
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I just got Microsoft/Hotmail/Live.com an e-mail from saying that I requested password reset for my Windows Live ID (which I did not). It looks like it was sent from genuine address and all the links in the mail look right but I'm still suspicious (after all I didn't ask to reset my password). From: Microsoft Customer Support postmaster@live.com Subject: Reset your Windows Live ID password To: ********@hotmail.com Hello ********@hotmail.com: You recently asked to reset your Windows Live ID password by e-mail. Follow the instructions below to reset your password, or to cancel your password reset request. TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. IF YOU DID NOT REQUEST TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. Thank you, Windows Live ID Customer Support NOTE:Please do not reply to this message, which was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Now:
- Why don't they call me by my name (they have that information) but by my e-mail address?
- Why did they send password reset request to the mail account for which I "want" to reset password?
- Usually when I get those kinds of mails they say to ignore them if I didn't ask for the reset, but this one explicitly says that I should fallow the (other) link?
- Why do I need copy-past link to address bar and not just click on the link?
I changed my password immediately using setting panel, but still I'm curious about that mail.
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I just got Microsoft/Hotmail/Live.com an e-mail from saying that I requested password reset for my Windows Live ID (which I did not). It looks like it was sent from genuine address and all the links in the mail look right but I'm still suspicious (after all I didn't ask to reset my password). From: Microsoft Customer Support postmaster@live.com Subject: Reset your Windows Live ID password To: ********@hotmail.com Hello ********@hotmail.com: You recently asked to reset your Windows Live ID password by e-mail. Follow the instructions below to reset your password, or to cancel your password reset request. TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. IF YOU DID NOT REQUEST TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. Thank you, Windows Live ID Customer Support NOTE:Please do not reply to this message, which was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Now:
- Why don't they call me by my name (they have that information) but by my e-mail address?
- Why did they send password reset request to the mail account for which I "want" to reset password?
- Usually when I get those kinds of mails they say to ignore them if I didn't ask for the reset, but this one explicitly says that I should fallow the (other) link?
- Why do I need copy-past link to address bar and not just click on the link?
I changed my password immediately using setting panel, but still I'm curious about that mail.
Odd; I've seen spam e-mails like that where the reset link looks genuine, such as for MySpace, but the actual domain is a random few letters, and myspace becomes part of a subdomain, for example
http://reset.myspace.s67.com, in hope that someone won't notice the actual domain name.. It's never sucked me in though :) Regards, --PerspxDon't trust a computer you can't throw out a window
-- Steve Wozniak
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I just got Microsoft/Hotmail/Live.com an e-mail from saying that I requested password reset for my Windows Live ID (which I did not). It looks like it was sent from genuine address and all the links in the mail look right but I'm still suspicious (after all I didn't ask to reset my password). From: Microsoft Customer Support postmaster@live.com Subject: Reset your Windows Live ID password To: ********@hotmail.com Hello ********@hotmail.com: You recently asked to reset your Windows Live ID password by e-mail. Follow the instructions below to reset your password, or to cancel your password reset request. TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. IF YOU DID NOT REQUEST TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD: 1. Select and copy the following Internet address. https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.srf?LONG\_SEQENCE\_OF\_NUMBERS 2. Open a browser, paste the link in the address bar, then press Enter or Return on your keyboard. Thank you, Windows Live ID Customer Support NOTE:Please do not reply to this message, which was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. Now:
- Why don't they call me by my name (they have that information) but by my e-mail address?
- Why did they send password reset request to the mail account for which I "want" to reset password?
- Usually when I get those kinds of mails they say to ignore them if I didn't ask for the reset, but this one explicitly says that I should fallow the (other) link?
- Why do I need copy-past link to address bar and not just click on the link?
I changed my password immediately using setting panel, but still I'm curious about that mail.
Just try to do a reset your self, and if the mail is the same as the one sent to you, then someone knows your address clicked forget password and tried to reset it, else this is obviously a spam.