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| Thread ID: 138414 | 2014-11-26 07:17:00 | Odd E-Mail | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 1389000 | 2014-11-26 07:17:00 | Can anyone throw any light on this E-Mail? 6046 I received it in my clear.net E-Mail account but it appears to possibly relate to my Hotmail account?????????? I have no idea who the owner of bu*****@hotmail.com might be. I thought of checking the IP address given, 103.30.93.220 but thought I’d run it past you guy first. Google wasn’t much help this time. :D :thanks |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1389001 | 2014-11-26 10:32:00 | If you have a hotmail account log into it and see if everything is ok, mine got locked after someone apparently tried to use it from another country. Chances are it's a phishing e-mail though. If you don't have an account or are sure this is not relevant to yours then just delete it. Never click any links etc on E-mails like this even if legit, always go to the official site yourself to check out any such claims. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1389002 | 2014-11-26 17:43:00 | I have no idea who the owner of bu*****@hotmail.com might be. Then it's bogus. Whats the return address of the email, bet it isn't Microsoft...and I bet the link doesn't take you to the real login screen. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1389003 | 2014-11-26 19:45:00 | I know “Curiosity Killed the Cat” :D but sometimes you’ve just got to know, so I “right- clicked” the link and copied it, which I then pasted in a word doc and I get account.live.com Does anybody know if that is that a genuine Hotmail link? If it’s a scam of some sort it’s pretty cunning because I can’t find anything clear cut on Google and there are plenty of people getting the same message and querying it with a lot of replies suggesting the message is genuine. Bit of a head scratcher this one. :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1389004 | 2014-11-26 19:51:00 | Then it's bogus. Whats the return address of the email Good point but it does appear to be Microsoft? 6047 |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1389005 | 2014-11-26 19:55:00 | If you have a hotmail account log into it and see if everything is ok Yep, my hotmail account is fine so far. :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1389006 | 2014-11-26 20:54:00 | I know “Curiosity Killed the Cat” :D but sometimes you’ve just got to know, so I “right- clicked” the link and copied it, which I then pasted in a word doc and I get account.live.com Does anybody know if that is that a genuine Hotmail link? Thats genuine. Chances are someones hacked your hotmail a/c. Just login & close it down/delete the a/c. Hotmail is/was famous for security issues. I had my hotmail a/c hacked this year, an unused a/c that had an unguessable password . So they do have issues. However , sometimes email links look genuine untill you click them . So copy & paste into a browser is allways the safer way |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1389007 | 2014-11-26 21:53:00 | Usually get theses from time to time from gmail when I use a VPN service or some Aussie sites that belong saying I can't log in because it's outside their ip range If you have not used a VPN I would change your password for this account just to be safe |
Lawrence (2987) | ||
| 1389008 | 2014-11-26 23:11:00 | This is real queer so let’s start again. :confused: 1: The account they refer to bu*****@hotmail.com is not mine and has not the slightest resemblance to mine. 2: My account, gon*****_******@hotmail.com seems fine. 3: The notification came to my @clear.net mailbox so where would Microsoft have got that address from. When I set up the Hotmail account years ago I was with a different ISP and have had at least 3 new ISP’s since set-up. 4: The return address, whilst being a “noreply”, seems genuine, as does the Link provided in their E-Mail. 5: This doesn’t appear to be an isolated case, as going by google there appears to be large numbers of people worldwide that have received similar E-Mails over quite an extended period of time. Don’t you hate it when you know there must be a logical answer but you can’t work it out? :angry |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1389009 | 2014-11-27 03:02:00 | 1: The account they refer to bu*****@hotmail.com is not mine and has not the slightest resemblance to mine. 2: My account, gon*****_******@hotmail.com seems fine. 3: The notification came to my @clear.net mailbox so where would Microsoft have got that address from. When I set up the Hotmail account years ago I was with a different ISP and have had at least 3 new ISP’s since set-up. y The link seems right. Ignore it, it's not your email so just ditch it... |
pctek (84) | ||
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