Thanks to deoetdoctrinae for the ping!
Posted on 05/28/2018 7:51:01 AM PDT by pabianice
I got the email and deleted it, didn’t click on anything.
Then I went to Microsoft’s web page (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us) and logged in. It told me someone had accessed my account and I needed to change the password. So I did.
Something odd is going on.
First off, it's suspicious, so I would NOT click on any link in the email, just in case it's malware.
Next step would depend on whether I had a Microsoft-related account (hotmail.com, live.com, etc.) using that Verizon email address as the "username".
If I had such an account, I would hit the Microsoft site I had the account on, using a known-good link such as a past bookmark to the site, and change my password. Should be no harm in that. And then wonder how it got changed without me doing it, but that's a larger question.
If no such account, then just delete and ignore the email.
Thanks to deoetdoctrinae for the ping!
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The malware out there is surging.
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Concur with lefty-lie-spy - please hit the abuse button and ask the moderators to edit out the IP address. The little bots that surf the web don’t need any help!
Nah, no big deal.
It is a dynamic assigned Verizon-owned IP. It gets changed and reassigned at will among Verizon's millions of customers. Chances are slim that it will remain in the possession of any one individual modem or phone or whatever device, for more than a day, and possibly just a few minutes at a time.
Heck you have to try very hard to KEEP the same dynamic IP for those times when it's handy.
no kidding. It’s getting nuts.
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