On 6 October 2012, I have received an email from *** Email address is removed for privacy *** asking me to give my full name, hotmail username, date of birth and password to my hotmail account within 24 hours otherwise I would lose my hotmail account permanently.  My question is " *** Email address is removed for privacy *** a genuine hotmail team tasked with updating all hotmail accounts or some of hotmail users, like me?