Windows Live Email Account has Exceeded it Storage Limit – Phishing Scam

Windows Live Email Account has Exceeded it Storage Limit – Phishing Scam

The email messages below: "Windows Live Email account has exceeded storage limit" are fakes. These email messages were not sent by Microsoft and are phishing scams designed to steal your Microsoft Hotmail, Live or Outlook user name and password.

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Windows Live Email Account has Exceeded it Storage Limit Phishing Email Scam

From: Microsoft account team microsoftaccount@microsoft.com
Sent:Tue 1/07/14 6:59 PM
Subject: FW: Billing Account

Dear Customer,

*Your Windows Outlook Live account has exceeded its storage limit as set by our Administrator, and you will not be able to receive new emails until you Re-Validate your account to avoid suspension.

Please click on the link below to Re-Validate your account.
https://accountservices.msn.com/EmailPage.sr8?emailid4847

Signed,
Windows Live ID Customer Support. 
Copyright 2014 Inc. 
All rights reserved. Terms of Service
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Dear Customer,
Your Windows Live Email account has exceeded its limit and needs to be verified, if not verified within 24 hours, we shall suspend your account.

Click here to verify your email account now
Thank you

Windows Live
2013 Microsoft
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Never click on the links in these email messages. Clicking on any of the links in these email messages will take you to a fake Microsoft Hotmail, Live or Outlook, and ask you to sign-in with your user name and password.

If you enter your user name and password on these fake websites, it will be sent to the cybercriminals behind these phishing scams.

If you were tricked into entering your user name and password on one of the fake websites, please change your password immediately.

Also, Microsoft will never ask you for your personal information, will never call you, send your antivirus messages, or ask to connect to your machine remotely.

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Jul 23, 2016 at 4:47 PM by
Windows Live Email Account has Exceeded it Storage Limit – Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

Here is another scam:

"Dear Customer,

*Your account has exceeded its storage limit as set by our Administrator, and you might not be able to receive new emails until you Re-Validate your account to avoid deactivation and irregular received of message.

Please click on the link below to Re-Validate your account.

CLICK HERE TO RE-VALIDATE

Signed,

Windows Live ID Customer Support. Windows Live ID Customer Support.

Copyright 2016 Inc.

All rights reserved. Terms of Service,

Administrator."

Received this email yesterday I deleted it but want all to be on the look out.

Delete

Mar 7, 2016 at 10:05 AM by
Windows Live Email Account has Exceeded it Storage Limit – Phishing Scam
info

Here is another scam:

"From: kshleifer@ msn.com

Subject: RESET CONFIRMATION™ 2016

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 05:45:41 0000

Dear Customer,

Your Windows Live Email account has exceeded

its limit and needs to be verified, if not verified

within 24 hours, we shall suspend your account.

Click here to verify your email account now

Thank you

Copyright © 2016 Microsoft. All rights reserved."

Delete

Jun 22, 2014 at 10:15 PM by
Windows Live Email Account has Exceeded it Storage Limit – Phishing Scam
an anonymous user from: Taipei City, Taiwan, Taiwan

Hi everyone,

I received an email this morning, and the content is below:

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"Your profile has been updated.to avoid suspension

View Notifications (Link)

Thanks,

The Microsoft account team

Microsoft account security alert?"

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I kept receiving these kinds of email and feel annoyed.

Delete

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Windows Live Email Account has Exceeded it Storage Limit – Phishing Scam