i got this email yesterday...

[denko]

Account Warning! Verify Your Account‏
From: Windows! Live (genecox0723@embarqmail.com)
Sent: Wed 5/20/09 3:42 AM
To:

Dear Windows Live! Account User,

We encountered a problem with our database and a lot of records were lost, we are restoring our database to enable us serve you better. Your Windows Live! Account details are required so as to store in our database to keep your account active. Failure to do this will lose his or her
account permanently.
To update and enable us restore your account details in our data base to keep your account active, you are required to provide us the details below urgently. Click the reply button to enter details below .

E-mail Address:
Password :
Date of Birth:
Country or Territory:
Occupation:

Make sure the details above are correct to enable us restore your account details, this will help prevent your account from suspending or closing.

Note: YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED.

Users have often told us that the more they use Windows Live! Service, the more they discover its benefits. We'll keep working on making Windows Live! the best email service around, and we appreciate your joining us for the ride.

Thanks,

Sandra O. John

The Windows Live! Team
Message Code: XV6289KK

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not too shady, right? anyone else get one of these?

[KingGeno]

Hello Gene. I, too, have the name Gene.

If you log into hotmail.com, you can report that as a phishing scam. And microsoft will do something cool to them.

[denko]

If you log into hotmail.com, you can report that as a phishing scam. And microsoft will do something cool to them.

done! i didn't know i could do that. thank you.

[razorboy]

I dunno, it sounds pretty serious. You better do what it says.

[silks]

Fill in the blanks with ludicrous responses and send it back.

[SatCam]

send BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER and my SHIPPER will be contacts you.

Kind Regards, Bill Gates

[Death Metal Moe]

Respond with an offer to make them 1 million dollars if they can help you get your 30 million dollars over to Africa.

[cougarjake13]

Account Warning! Verify Your Account‏
From: Windows! Live (genecox0723@embarqmail.com)
Sent: Wed 5/20/09 3:42 AM
To:

Dear Windows Live! Account User,

We encountered a problem with our database and a lot of records were lost, we are restoring our database to enable us serve you better. Your Windows Live! Account details are required so as to store in our database to keep your account active. Failure to do this will lose his or her
account permanently.
To update and enable us restore your account details in our data base to keep your account active, you are required to provide us the details below urgently. Click the reply button to enter details below .

E-mail Address:
Password :
Date of Birth:
Country or Territory:
Occupation:

Make sure the details above are correct to enable us restore your account details, this will help prevent your account from suspending or closing.

Note: YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED.

Users have often told us that the more they use Windows Live! Service, the more they discover its benefits. We'll keep working on making Windows Live! the best email service around, and we appreciate your joining us for the ride.

Thanks,

Sandra O. John

The Windows Live! Team
Message Code: XV6289KK

--------------------------------------------

not too shady, right? anyone else get one of these?



why would they ever need to know your occupation ???

[STC-Dub]

Or date of birth. My favorites are the ones for banks that do not have a branch within 1000 miles of here.