...you do not include sender's email address....that might be some indication...

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

This is a genuine microsoft email (received yesterday).

 

Came from [email protected] 

 

 

Looks like the young fella has been caught by the family looking at adult sites.

Some kind of intervention going on in that photo!

I saw it, my BS meter went off, marked it as spam and deleted it.

If you do have an MS account, the next time you use it you'll be prompted to accept their terms and conditions if there are any changes.

Regarding Windows 7.  Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 on Jan 14, 2020.  Until then Microsoft will be sending out patches for the Windows 7 operating system the second Tuesday of every month as usual.  If there is a exploit that is know Microsoft will address it in Window 7 updates until the end of service date.  After that date, if you wish to be safer, yes, upgrading to Windows 10 is probably a good idea.  Or imho, try a flavor of Linux like Ubuntu 18.04.  You may find that you actually have no use of Microsoft. 

DONT DO ANYTHING!!!! Who ever it is will HACK your computer

3 hours ago, ianezy0 said:

Yep this is indeed genuine.

I had a similar email last week, they asked me to send them money to South Africa, which I did. The money went out my account with no problem ????

These are the sort of non-friends I like to have........................

 

It would help if you showed the email address the message was sent from. You can usually tell from that.

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln.

 

   I found a good website to understand why these scammers are sending such "spam" mails, it also explains what a "backdoor" attack is and how to avoid it.

 

 Please see:

 

   https://www.securitymetrics.com/blog/7-ways-recognize-phishing-email

2 hours ago, elgenon said:

It would help if you showed the email address the message was sent from. You can usually tell from that.

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From: Outlook Admin <[email protected]>
Sent: 04 July 2019 14:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: MICROSOFT ACCOUNT DE-ACTIVATION

13 minutes ago, lelapin said:

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From: Outlook Admin <[email protected]>
Sent: 04 July 2019 14:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: MICROSOFT ACCOUNT DE-ACTIVATION

Exactly.  It's a no brainer.

4 hours ago, connda said:

I saw it, my BS meter went off, marked it as spam and deleted it.

If you do have an MS account, the next time you use it you'll be prompted to accept their terms and conditions if there are any changes.

Regarding Windows 7.  Microsoft is ending support for Windows 7 on Jan 14, 2020.  Until then Microsoft will be sending out patches for the Windows 7 operating system the second Tuesday of every month as usual.  If there is a exploit that is know Microsoft will address it in Window 7 updates until the end of service date.  After that date, if you wish to be safer, yes, upgrading to Windows 10 is probably a good idea.  Or imho, try a flavor of Linux like Ubuntu 18.04.  You may find that you actually have no use of Microsoft. 

For an easier transition from Windows you might consider Linux Mint 19.1 with the Cinnamon desktop.  A very polished OS and very Windows-like in appearance.  Overall, a much more secure system as well.  The only caveat is with printer support but this is improving all the time. 

 

You can try a 'live' version that will run from a USB stick, to see if it works for you and is compatible with your hardware.  If you are happy with it, you can then install it on your system.  You can even set it up as dual boot with Windows, if you want to do that.

 

As connda said, you may find that you have no further need for Microsoft - unless you are really into Windows gaming.

I just received a similar mail in my Microsoft based email account.

It looks like this - Microsoft's spam filter does not like it...

That's the 1 I received a couple of days ago to multiple email addresses... I usually just ignore them, don't even read them...

 

I got something like that three weeks back. I cut and pasted some of their blather then deleted it and sent to MS. They actually retruned my e mail and said. "it was not thiers"

 

Just phishing

I get Apple emails about my account. The fact they call me "costumer" instead of "customer" kind of gives them away. In this case "MicrosoftAccounts" without the gap gives it away. I know people have bad spelling these days but think multinationals like these would be checking their spelling and grammar.

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