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Students and Windows 7 - Anyone got the e-mail?

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Has anyone got an e-mail in their student e-mail account from jeremy @ bluehornet.com? It ended up in my spam folder, so don't know if it's legit. Below is the email, with all links removed.
Dear ,

Click the link below to automatically confirm your subscription to the Microsoft Office for Windows 7 Email List:
Confirm your Subscription
You have 30 days to submit your confirmation.

If you do not want to join, simply do not respond.

To find out the exact date and location your email address was entered, follow the link below:
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If you think your email address may have been used without your consent, follow the link below:
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Thank You,

Microsoft Office for Windows 7
If it's not genuine, how did I get it because I never get spam at this address. And how'd they know I purchased Windows 7? Having Googled it, there seems to be quite a few people who are suspicious of this.
Northern Ireland club member No 382 :j

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  • bluehornet is legit for this.
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  • bluehornet is legit for this.

    I know bluehornet is a legit organisation, although quite a few people have said that Microsoft don't work with bluehornet.
    Northern Ireland club member No 382 :j
  • John_Gray
    John_Gray Posts: 5,843 Forumite
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    Has anyone got an e-mail in their student e-mail account from jeremy @ bluehornet.com? It ended up in my spam folder, so don't know if it's legit. Below is the email, with all links removed.
    What is "Microsoft Office for Windows 7" when it's at home? Virtually any version of Office works on Windows 7!

    Blue Hornet seems to be an anti-spam organisation - and I would guess that 'someone' is trying to destroy their reputation by sending out spam purporting to come from Blue Hornet.
  • John_Gray wrote: »
    What is "Microsoft Office for Windows 7" when it's at home? Virtually any version of Office works on Windows 7!

    Blue Hornet seems to be an anti-spam organisation - and I would guess that 'someone' is trying to destroy their reputation by sending out spam purporting to come from Blue Hornet.

    But how would they have known that I had purchased Windows 7, and through that e-mail account, the address of which has never been given out anywhere except to Mircosodt for this purpose?
    Northern Ireland club member No 382 :j
  • Sol00
    Sol00 Posts: 1,230 Forumite
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    I got this as well and clicked the link. It just said something about activating from what I can remember.
  • hc25036
    hc25036 Posts: 387 Forumite
    Despite agreeing that I don't see how anyone other than MS got my address, this does doesn't look genuine -and doesn't read like any other MS communication I have received! Went straight into the "delete" box.....
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