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Microsoft - Update your information! Spam detected! - Spoof Email Phishing Scam
1st March 2004

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Report Summary
Date Reported
1st March 2004
Apparent Sender
Microsoft
Return Address
Microsoft [mailto:nospam_center@microsoft.com]
Subject
Update your information! Spam detected!
Format
HTML
Method
bogus form in email
Bogus Web Content?
No
URL of web content
N/A
RISK LEVEL
Medium
WARNINGS

none

"Apparently our mail server detected spam activity coming from your email address. You or a third party used your email address to send spam to our microsoft mail server. "...

This spoof Microsoft email (see image below) is an HTML form in which you are required to provide information which could lose your email account to fraudsters. The bogus web page that the form directs you to on submission, has a syntax error in the code, so it will not show any content.

We expect that the bogus web page that the form would have sent you to, would have included another form, as in other phishing scams, and which would have asked for much more information including bank and/or credit or debit card details.

If you have received this email, please remember that it is very common for these email scams to be redistributed at a later date with only slightly different content or the same but with the fake page(s) hosted by a different provider. Also, once you have received one of these hoaxes, it is also common place to receive at least another one and usually a day or two after the first, although not necessarily from the same apparent sender.

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Microsoft - Update your information! Spam detected! - Spoof Email Phishing Scam

 

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