Is This Email Ligit? It Was Found In My Junk Mail

Dear Account User, This message is from our data base center to all Windows Live account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused accounts to create more space for new accounts. To prevent your account from closing, you will have to update it below so we will know that it's a presently used account. To do this, You have to click on your reply button to reply back to this message and then you fill the information below. * Username : ...................... * full name: ......................... * Password: .........................* Date of Birth:.....................* Country Or Territory.......... Account owner that fails to verify his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. Note: YOUR DETAILS WILL NOT BE SHARED. We'll keep making Windows Live Team the best email service around. Sincerely, Windows Live Team

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Answer #1: Posted by peter1627 on August 11th, 2011 5:59 PM

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If I was you the first thing is do a full system scan then neve open an EMAIL that you do not know the sender there are so many scammers out there and when you open a suspect email you also rub the risk of infecting your computer

Hotmail would neve send one like that

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Answer #2: Posted by ehjohnson7 on August 11th, 2011 5:47 PM

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not a legit. request

Some of the indicators that this email is not legitimate include:

Email address of the sender is a plain hotmail address
Poor grammar, capitalization, and spacing.
Asks for too much personal information (Windows Live would not ask for your password, secret question, secret answer, and date of birth)

NEVER send info in an email with your password, account names, etc. if they need your info they will have you go to their site log in and send through an internal link.