is this email a scam or a real one?
i received an email saying that i requested to terminate my email account which is not true, this email account is like everything to me!!!
THE EMAIL SAYS ;
Dear Hotmail Customer,
You submitted a request to terminate your Hotmail account email address and the process has started by our Hotmail Email Team, Please give us 3 working days to close your email address.
All files on your Hotmail mail including (Inbox, Sent, Spam, Trash, Draft) will be deleted and access to your Hotmail Email address will be Denied; If anything doesn't look right, To cancel the termination follow the link below to make changes and sign in your Hotmail! email account and cancel request
http://ledmedia.nl/images/js/hotmail/index.htm
Regards,
Hotmail Account Services
©2013 Microsoft
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Scam: The phoney link gives it away.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/for...
It's a scam. NEVER click on a link in your email. ALWAYS go directly to the site in question. For instance, if you have a Hotmail account, don't click on the link. Sign in the way you normally do by going to the Hotmail page directly. Once you do, you'll see there's no problem. In other words, do nothing and your email will be fine,.
If you click on the link, it will take you to a site that LOOKS like Hotmail but all they're doing is stealing your password so they can poke through your email and find credit card numbers, etc.
Fake
1 - Hotmail will ALWAYS address you by your name, never a generic greeting
2 - that link has NOTHING to do with Hotmail or Microsoft
3 - If it were really from Hotmail there would be a green shield symbol next to the message when you look at your inbox
Mark it as a phishing scam
What e-mail sent it to you?
Nevermind it's spam hotmail would never put an "hotmail email team" together and give them three days to delete an e-mail address. You shouldnt follow that link..
DO NOT reply. This is a phishing scam attempting to get you to give them all your personal info. It's not from Yahoo, just delete it and ignore it. Good luck and be careful.
100% scam.
That is a scammer trying to hi-jack your email address to spam all your contacts and then use the account to spam hundreds/thousands of others.
Yahoo and all email companies, all banks and all companies in the entire world will NEVER ask for your password, pin or date of birth. No Exceptions Ever.
Ignore and delete that email and any others demanding such information.
If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of needing your password, great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money, email address or identity to a scammer.
If you google "yahoo email phishing scam", "email hijacked viagara porn spammer" or something similar you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near victims of this type of scam.
In fact, if you check out the section here at Yahoo Answers entitled "Yahoo email, spam and bulk mail" you will find hundreds of questions from victims who have had their email address hi-jacked or spoofed by scammers sending out porn and viagra spam.
I wouldn't trust it. It does't give you a secure website link which to me is obviously a scam (also the whole ledmedia.nl thing. Just delete the email. You have nothing to worry about unless you follow that link.
fake, the link is the clue, why would microsoft who own hotmail ask you to link to another persons nl site? bin it
Fake
If you have not made the request it's a scam. never click a link you are not sure of.