Is Microsoft asking you to update your email account?

[SallysDad]

Is this legitimate?

I got this very strange request in my email:

 

OUTLOOK account details 2022

Dear OUTLOOK User:

Your Email account is outdated as of July 9th. 

To Re-Update follow the link below Click here

Thank you for doing your part to defend our service

[lasermonkey]

I’m not a Microsoft customer, but I’m willing to bet that’s a scam.

[Chimpion]

Almost certainly a scam. If in doubt go to www.microsoft.com by entering it in the address bar and log in to your account from there. Don't click the link in the email.

 

[Moggy]

It's called phishing.

 

It's the arch-classic way to get your (Outlook) credentials.

 

NEVER click on a link in your e-mail; specially when asked to "renew"  an account regardless of if it sounds legit or not.

No bank or serious IT-actor would ever demand such things on an e-mail.

 

@Chimpion has it right "if in doubt go to www.microsoft.com by entering it in the address bar and log in to your account from there. Don't click the link in the email."

Excellent advice

 

Cheers, Moggy

 

 

[SallysDad]

Thanks, Model-Brothers.

This is very much appreciated.

Randy

[dogsbody]

Outlook/Microsoft hasn't contacted me about anything like this, so I'm calling this bull!

 

 

 

Chris

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

The only thing I've gotten like that was yesterday I received an email saying Google were changing there terms. If I kept using google after August 15th I accepted their terms. But nothing asking me to confirm or log into. 

[silverkite211]

WITHOUT clicking on it, move your cursor over the hyperlink and it will open a window showing the address of it. I used to get emails purporting to be from eBay, they looked to be completely legitimate, however none of the hyperlinks worked, except for the one at the bottom of the page and it wasn't from eBay.

[MikeC]

16 hours ago, SallysDad said:

Is this legitimate?

I got this very strange request in my email:

 

OUTLOOK account details 2022

Dear OUTLOOK User:

Your Email account is outdated as of July 9th. 

To Re-Update follow the link below Click here

Thank you for doing your part to defend our service

"Dear Outlook User": first clear sign it's a scam, if it really was MS they'd have called you by the name you registered your email account in.

"Outdated": what does that even mean in relation to an email account?

As others have said, hover over the link, DON'T CLICK IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.  I'd put money that the address is nothing to do with MS.

IMO it's not just "likely" this is a scam, it is 100% certain it is.

 

Have a look on the MS site, if they have a means of reporting suspicious emails I suggest you use it.

 

 

[Bullbasket]

43 minutes ago, MikeC said:

"Dear Outlook User": first clear sign it's a scam, if it really was MS they'd have called you by the name you registered your email account in.

"Outdated": what does that even mean in relation to an email account?

As others have said, hover over the link, DON'T CLICK IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.  I'd put money that the address is nothing to do with MS.

IMO it's not just "likely" this is a scam, it is 100% certain it is.

And frequently written by somebody for whom English is not their first language.

 

John.