Microsoft Spoofed Phishing E-mails Yet Again Circulating

According to security specialists, phishing e-mails posing as messages from Microsoft the software giant have been hitting consumers while fooling them into disclosing personal information particularly their login details, published Help Net Security dated February 14, 2014.

Displaying a caption, "REACTIVATE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT!!!" and addressing Microsoft customers, the fraudulent electronic mails state that to abide by Microsoft Corporation's directions for upgrading e-mail along with those of World Wide Web domain host for e-mail, there'll be suspension of each-and-every unsubstantiated e-mail account so they can be validated. But, the user can eschew his e-mail account's suspension as well as keep his entire e-mail content intact by doing a once-for-all automatic validation via filling up a given Internet form obtainable via clicking a given web-link.

The e-mail continues that once the verification form is wholly and successfully completed, the user will be confirmed about it via getting him led onto his e-mail account page. It's requested that he drag the message to place it inside his inbox, incase it's inside the bulk folder. The same may be done for each of his electronic mail account, the e-mail ends.

But, Microsoft hasn't sent the aforementioned e-mail. It's only one phishing scam where following the web-link leads onto a similar fake site, which directs the user to provide his e-mail id and password, along with birth-date.

When all the asked information is provided on the fake site, the user is mechanically diverted onto somewhere else. Meanwhile, the fraudsters are equipped with utilizing the stolen information for compromising and gaining admission into the victim's e-mail a/c from where to execute more scam and spam attacks. And because scam/spam messages get dispatched from the compromised A/Cs, the actual perpetrators of the e-mails can't get traced.

Compromised e-mail accounts mean much to cyber-criminals therefore, phishing e-mails, which steal passwords for e-mail A/Cs, remain extremely common. A few educe greater sophistication compared to the aforementioned edition as also assert as being sent from the high-profile Yahoo or Gmail providers.

Thus, incase one finds the aforementioned kinds of phishing e-mails in his account, he must delete them instantly, the specialists advise.

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