Rogue Hotmail email

Robisere

This morning I received a message on my android phone: "Hotmail not signed in." But I had not attempted to sign in, on my phone, linked tablet and/or desktop. So I did nothing on the phone, went to the desktop and my Gmail account which is linked to my Hotmail account. In there, and on my Hotmail inbox, was a message that looked a genuine Hotmail message, but I knew there was something wrong.

The message informed me that there were "... 8 blocked emails in your Hotmail account. Please click this link to free these messages."
I used View Source in Hotmail to check the origin and sure enough, the real address was not a Microsoft one. Used Microsoft's Spoof service and blocked the address. returned to the phone and the "Hotmail not signed in" had disappeared. I used MWB and Kaspersky to carry out a search: nothing found.

Please check any such messages carefully if you have Outlook or Hotmail. (I am on Windows 7, migrating soon.)

Chino

Why, I wonder, in 2019 do posters on this forum still feel the need to tell the world when they've received spam?

Robisere

Chino wrote: »

Why, I wonder, in 2019 do posters on this forum still feel the need to tell the world when they've received spam?

Because I wanted to warn others! This is subject to further information, btw: this morning I received another such message, forwarded to Microsoft. Brfore I did, I checked the message Source again. This is the address of the source: -

scan@serenafilm.com

Listed in the source as "Customer Care." It was a phishing attempt, recognised by Microsoft. Do you object to me warning others who may not have your own obviously highly advanced technical knowledge? Not forgetting your own supercilious attitude.

Neil_Jones

Robisere wrote: »

Do you object to me warning others who may not have your own obviously highly advanced technical knowledge? Not forgetting your own supercilious attitude.

While your intentions are admired, unfortunately junk email is part of the internet these days (that's what the spam filter is for) and if people are stupid enough to click on the link that their great Uncle Bulgaria supposedly sent them then that's their own fault.

The sources and the "used" email addresses may or may be genuine; its easy to spoof them so they will not match every single time.

The easiest solution is just to do the "report as spam" if the filter hasn't picked it up and then delete it. Simple as. You can't warn everybody and for nine out of ten people the message will just go in one ear and out the other.

forgotmyname

The people who respond to the messages and fall victim to the spam/scam emails don't tend to read the Techie Stuff threads.

Stupid email apps and programs only showing the senders name rather than the real email address does not help.

Stupid idea.

How can I tell if my Viagra and granny dating site adverts are genuine when the email software hides the senders email?

Email from MrRockHard@Amazon selling Viagra did make me giggle. Added a list of reply to emails with a couple actually being genuine Amazon emails addresses. Real senders details from the headers was actually in the reply to box also.

Wonder if the scammer hoped someone would reply all, or pot luck they chose his email out of the other fake ones.