Hotmail Account Alert | Free Ebooks
I started my day with a good belly laugh. Why? This was in my Hotmail Inbox this morning.
From: Windows Live™
Subject: Hotmail Account Alert
Dear Account Owner
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 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.
Confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 48 hours for security reasons.
* User Name: ………………………..
* 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.
Sincerely,
The Windows Live Hotmail Team
- Bring in your contacts from your Yahoo! or Gmail address book
- Personalize your email by changing the color of your inbox
Hotmail is part of Windows Live.
It has been a long time since I have received one of these lame phishing attempts.. and I had thought the *people* behind them had finally figured out that the days when people might fall for this were over. This form is so.. 90’s!
Send me your user name and password.
Right.
Sure.
Let me get right on that.
Too funny! “Dear Account Owner”… like, Hotmail doesn’t know my user name.
Free Ebooks: Amazon is offering 4 classic e-Books for free – here’s the links:
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Pride and Prejudice $0.00 | Treasure Island $0.00 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland $0.00 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea $0.00 |
Copyright 2007-2010 © “Tech Paul” (Paul Eckstrom). All Rights Reserved. 
post to jaanix.
>> Folks, don’t miss an article! To get Tech – for Everyone articles delivered to your e-mail Inbox, click here, or to subscribe in your RSS reader, click here. <<
5 Comments »
Post your Comment/Question
• About Tech Paul
I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
Note: You are responsible for using this blog and its content. I am in no way liable for any losses caused by user error, viruses and/or other malware, hardware or software failure, or any other conceivable reason.
-
Say "thank you!" Buy Tech Paul a cup of coffee (and keep T4E ad free).
-
-
McAfee® Cybersafety Resource Portal, an online help center designed to assist victims of computer crime and provide information on how to avoid becoming a victim.
-
Subscribe to Tech--for Everyone by EmailRecent Comments
-
-
-
-
Also:
-
-
Tech - for Everyone 
Unfortunatly Paul, I believe that “the days when people might fall for this” are still alive and well.
LikeLike
Dave B,
Good to see your name here again.
You can’t blame a guy for hoping, but, yes – there really is a sucker born every minute. So.. I put the word out, every so often.
LikeLike
Nice Information.. Thx for sharing this
LikeLike
how much time ot required for you to write this good article ?
LikeLike
theknight,
The time required to write an article varies greatly. This particular one was mostly Copy>Paste from a spam email, so it did not take me too long.
I use a WYSIWYG html editor for writing articles — Windows Live Writer (available free via Microsoft’s “Live Essentials” package.)
LikeLike