Hotmail Hackers
I wrote about my Hotmail experience in an old post. It was a positive experience from the customer service of Windows Hotmail.
Recently, I received email letters from windows updates but with an email address(gloriarankin@hotmail.com) and (sisu74@hotmail.com). These were two separate emails sent on different dates. The letters have the same content warning users to update their account or else the account will be closed in two weeks. The letter has the following subject:
Window Live Hotmail! Warning! Verify Your Account Now To Avoid Closure ( VX2G99AAJ ) !!!
The content of the letter is as follows:
Dear Account User,
This Email is from Hotmail Customer Care and we are sending it to every Hotmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety. We are having congestions due to to the anonymous registration of Hotmail accounts so we are shutting down some Hotmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account. If you are still interested please confirm your account by filling the space below.Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information would be needed to verify your account.
Due to the congestion in all Hotmail users and removal of all unused Hotmail Accounts, Hotmail would be shutting down all unused Accounts, You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.
* Username: ………………………….
* Password: …………………………..
* Date of Birth: ……………………….
* Country Or Territory: …………….After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconveniences.
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
Sincerely,
The Windows Live Hotmail Team
So, Hotmail account users, beware! The hackers never give up.
one thing that pisses me off whenever i go online is seeing these spams and internet hoaxes. Well thats not the worst thing for me actually, religious chain letters will be in my No. 1 list
Aaarrgh.
It doesn’t piss me off that people do it…. It pisses me off that people FALL for it. No wonder the internet attracts so many trolls… It’s like shooting fish in a barell.
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hi unemployed – you do have a point. i agree with you. i guess it’s too much to hope that other people stop taking advantage other people.
hi arvinsign – yeah, it’s irritating to receive all and any kind of chain letters.
people FALL for it because of ignorance. So id rather blame the sender than the receiver. Its like blaming the predator than the prey. I supposed nobody will fall for something that they know is 100% fake, thats no longer ignorance..its stupidity.
“Its like blaming the predator than the prey”…what??? Blame the predator for eating his prey? Wow! This is some intelligent remark…I may be stupid…but I never really thought about this!
que ???
Hackers=predators people who are victimized= prey…
why are you using the biological concept of predator and prey?? (Blame the predator for eating his prey?)
Are we not discussing about hackers and their victims?
Oh! Yeah, nice arithmetic there! Well, it could have been nice if you just went straight to the point rather than playing with words. It does make things much simpler…
And don’t get pissy about me mistakenly referring to a hacker as a predator and the victim as a prey. I am just human, I make mistake. At least now I know and thanks! Let me try this one…uhhhhmmm…In the middle of the dark wilderness, the hacker ate the victim. I am crossing my fingers that now I got it right…
i received similar emails too but i didnt bother to reply because even though i have an msn account, i think i haven’t opened it for like 4-5 months already (could be really shut down by now even though i try to update it) and i thought it was really so foolish for them to ask users for such very important information over mail… yeah, hackers really dont give up…
Do you have any conditions Ishould know about?