Posted on 05/28/2018 7:51:01 AM PDT by pabianice
My wife and I got this spoof yesterday. The sender demands you change your Microsoft password. When does Microsoft ever do such a thing?
Microsoft account Your password changed Your password for the Microsoft account xx*****@verizon.net was changed on 5/28/2018 10:43 AM (GMT). If this was you, then you can safely ignore this email. Security info used: xxxxxx@verizon.net
Country/region: United States Platform: Windows Browser: Microsoft Edge IP address: 70.20.23.77 If this wasn't you, your account has been compromised. Please follow these steps: 1. Reset your password.
2. Review your security info.
3. Learn how to make your account more secure.
You can also opt out or change where you receive security notifications. Thanks, The Microsoft account team
This is standard. It’s telling you that your password was changed. If you didn’t change it then someone else did and you have problems to fix.
“The Microsoft account team”
“The Microsoft Help Desk”
Were the calls from either Bombay or Calcutta?
Do not click on any links in the email. If you have a Microsoft account and wish to change your password then go to Microsoft using your own link. It is more than likely that the email you received is an attempt to send you to a phony website and then collect your information.
And now we know your IP address too. Please don’t do that. It looks like it could be legitimate, but without the original, it’s imposible to tell. Call Verizon if in doubt. They shouldn’t have anything to do with your windows login password, so it very well could be a phishing scam too. If you’re instinctively suspicious, you probably are right to concerned.
If your password on a Verizon account was changed, Verizon would contact you, not anyone from Microsoft.
I have no Microsoft password. Besides, we got this email seven times for the same account, all from a made-up account name.
You can use any email you want for your Microsoft account.
Do you use that account with some Microsoft product? If not it is a spoof. If you do it could be a real warning that someone changed the password. Always be careful of any links they send you. It could look like a Micrsoft link but it really sends you to passwordtheif.com or the even more subtle mircosoft.com.
Ping. Any ideas on this my FRiend?
If you ever want to check your Microsoft account, go directly to Microsoft https://account.microsoft.com/security and click “Review Activity”
Verizon was the email address used to sign up the microsoft account. You don’t need to use outlook.com or Hotmail. You can use any email you want.
If you use windows 10 you have a Microsoft account. Unless you took extra steps not to do so. Maybe you did it once upon a time. Then never used it.
Or more insidious, it is a fake message your password was changed and the link in the email will take you to a fake Microsoft site where it requests you to login with your user ID and password, resulting in the hacker getting your real account info!
Whenever I get one of these sorts of emails, which may or may not be fakes, I first hover the mouse over the link in the email. If this reveals a completely bogus web server address, I toss the email in the spam folder. If the address looks legit, I still don't click the link. Instead I go to my browser and navigate myself to Microsoft, Apple, or wherever the email purports to be from and login directly.
This happened to me a few days back and after logging directly in, it looked like someone was attempting to hack into my Apple ID, having generated a case number to try and "fix" a failed login issue, caused by their hacking attempt. The simplest option the Apple site suggested was changing my password, which I did.
I use a really long, randomly generated password (thanks 1Password!) and 2-factor authentication, to make life miserable for any would-be password hackers.
There was no link though. It looks just like the email I get when I change my password.
sign out and sign back in- if you can still do so, then none has changed your password and the email is a scam
He doesn’t think he has a Microsoft account with that address.
He’s either using a pin and didn’t realize he had a Microsoft account. Or he had signed up for a Microsoft account with that email and doesn’t use it. In which case it may be hacked and he won’t know it. He needs to reset password on it by going to Microsoft link listed above.
You can see the IP address in the last (lowermost) “Received” header; that’sthe real sender. You can look it up in a reverse IP resolver. Typical results: Nigeria, Russia, Romania...
well that’s what i meant- sign into the MS account if he still knows his password- if not- resetting password is good advice- he’ll need to know the email he signed up with though to do so- so they can verify and send new password to
I like their product as well.
I use to change my login creds every 3-6 months.
Now I let them handle it.
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