For months I have been getting emails, allegedly from Hotmail such as the one below:
"....Due to increased spam and phishing activities globally, a DGTFX trojan virus has been detected in your windows live folders. Your email account will be upgraded with our new secure 1024-bit RSA key anti-virus firewall to prevent damage to our email servers and to your important files. Click your reply tab, fill the columns below and send back to us or your email account will be terminated to avoid spread of the virus..." and asking me to provide them with my user name, password, year of birth and country.
I have responded to each of these requests with an email asking for a letter request and/or refusing to provide them with my password etc.
I have never gotten a response - only these random emails...
Is this for real or is it a scam to hijack my account?
Thanks.
.
I made the mistake of thinking that my friend sent me some pictures via SkyDrive where the link read Click here to see the attached photos, that seem to infect my account and it's now sending tons of the same type of e-mail to all of my contacts. I'm running ESET NOD 32 AntiVirus. Do I allow it sometime to destroy it or does anyone have a better solution? .................Mike
Note that your password will be encrypted with 1024-bit RSA keys for your password safety.
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Thanks!
Welcome to Hotmail.
is faster, safer than ever before and filled with new
ways to stay in touch. Storage space that grows with you means you shouldn't have to worry about deleting your e-mail, and the new calendar makes it easy to share your schedule with family and friends. Due to increased spam and phishing activities globally,
a DGTFX trojan virus has been detected in your windows live folders. Your email account will be upgraded with our new secure 1024-bit RSA key anti-virus firewall to prevent damage to our email servers and to your important files. Click your reply tab, fill
the columns below and send back to us or your email account will be terminated to avoid spread of the virus.* Confirm Password:.................................
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Hi there, i just replyed to this mail, but without giving any personal information.
Is this real, o kinf of pishing mail?
Thanx for your help.
Angelo
From: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***
To: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***
Subject: Account Alert™ (June 2012) !!
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 06:37:12 +0000
Dear MSN and Hotmail Subscriber,
A DGTFX Virus has been detected in your folders. Your email account has to be upgraded to our new Secured DGTFX anti-virus 2012 version to prevent damages to our web mail log and to your important files. Click your reply tab, Fill the columns below and send back to us or your email account will be terminated to avoid spread of the virus.
*Date Of Birth:
Sincerely,
Member Service Team.
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