So many recipients of this type of spam probably would not appreciate the grammatical points you make in this article. And for many recipients, English would not be their first language, and they might think that the spam is actually good English!
Cut him some slack. Picky, picky, picky! Microsoft is not immune to grammatical idiocy either. That would give them something else to do.. I cannot believe that anyone, even a new computer user luser could be so naive that they would even begin to think that this is a legit email. Just goes to show.
How does grammar come into this? Grammar is a false construct, attempting to rigidly control that which is by nature fluid and changeable. All languages change with use, and their grammar changes also. It seems that microsoft does not recognize my email address.
I have been using for two tears. What is the problem? I feel victim by answering the scam, now all my contacts are receiveing emails that I am at a conference in england and lost my money please send money. I can not access my account or change my password. The convoluted English used gives me the impression that it comes from Nigeria, e. Thanks a mil Leo! How do I veryfy?! As usual Leo has it right. I have been getting these emails for quite some time. They have been very proactive in closing down the email accounts associated with this phishing scam.
Everyone who receives one of these emails should report it—tis quick and easy. A greek girl i was with got this email and thought it was real, luckaly she asked me befor sending her info.
Ok, I was really tired and taking medication so I did not pay enough attention. The e-mail seemed legit, the microsoft and return address again looked legit. I was really concerned that my account would be closed so I went ahead and sent them the information.
I should have known better, now that I think about it this would be the same scheme people would use to get your bank account and I would NEVER give them that information. So now I have a big problem. Is there any way to recover my hotmail account? If not, how to I close it? So I just deleted the email right away, I didnt reply, nothing. Just deleted it. I still doubted that hotmail actually disabled my account, so I asked a bunch of friends if their hotmail still works, and all of them said yes.
I have this Windows Live Hotmail about to close your account several times and regular scam mails from most banks, Pay Pal, Inland revenue etc since her account was Hi Jacked. My bank is clear in advising that on no account would they ever e-mail me about anything in regards to my account and would only contact me by posted mail if they needed to contact me, or by phone inviting me to call in to my branch.
They would never ask for any details about my account unless I phoned them. It is worth a mention that if a persons account is hi jacked one account could give a scamer hundreds of names and addresses and for this reason always delete previous addresses and use B. C when forwarding a e-mail. Leo, thank you so much for your postings, as I do appreciate them. It looks like they are becoming more and more savy with their scam approach, the email I received was very well worded and even included a signature of I suppose the head of the WindowsLive Team.
We are having congestion due to the anonymous registration of Msn-Live-Hotmail accounts so we are shutting down some Msn-Live-Hotmail accounts and your account is among those to be deactivated. We are sending this email to you so that you can verify and let us know if this account is still valid?
If it is,The following information is needed to verify your account: Your User name, password, date of birth and your country information. Click on the reply button and fill in your information:. After following the above instructions your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this effect. We apologize for any inconveniences.
You will need to confirm your E-mail by filling out your log-in information below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons. Hotmail, Windows Live, and Outlook. Click on the Your Info tab at the top of the page. Scroll down to the Help with Microsoft account section. Click on How to close your account. Just to clarify, accounts will be purged after days of inactivity. After days five days short of a typical year of inactivity, a Windows Live Hotmail account is permanently deleted.
Select the account that you want to remove, and then select Remove to confirm. Tap the red X to remove the service. Click Accounts, scroll down, and then click the Microsoft account you would like to delete. Click Remove, and then click Yes. You can delete your Hotmail account without a password — with a catch.
The option available is to reset your password. For this to occur, however, you need to have access to the contact email that you used to set up your Hotmail account. Click on Settings. Click on Account. Now click on Family and other users. I have tried to stop my account and to no avail and I have had issues with someone hacking this account and contacting my young nieces pretending to be me and asking them to undress etc.. Interestingly enough I tried your method 5 years ago.
However, just recently, my account was hacked and is now sending spam email under my name to my old contacts list. This is the reason people want to delete their accounts. It should not be this hard to close an account. I just want the account closed. Is it really so hard to answer the question instead of questioning the help you are suppose to give us? Comments violating those rules will be removed.
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I'll see you there! Ron Reply. Please read the article you just commented on. Hotmail is. Just stop. Ignore it, log out of it, and never ever sign into it again. In your position I would contact the police. Your account was compomised? You must MUST have control of an account in order to close it.
This article, already on Ask Leo, discusses recovery options for the various ways that Hotmail accounts can be lost or compromised: What are my Lost Hotmail Account and Password Recovery Options? Tell all your contacts to ignore email coming from the old account and move on. I found this finally. It closed the account once and for all for me.
Log in with your Windows Live ID and password. At that point you want this article which discusses the recovery options for the various ways that Hotmail accounts can be lost or compromised: What are my Lost Hotmail Account and Password Recovery Options? Leave a reply: Before commenting please: Read the article. Comment on the article.
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