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I received a suspicious email purporting to be from One Drive

Anonymous
2021-07-16T17:43:48+00:00

Today I received an email from OneDrive <******@onedrive.com>. The message said, "Look back on your memories from this day." This email contained images of photos from my One Drive Backup. I was afraid, so I did not allow Thunderbird to unblock remote access to this email message, and I immediately deleted the email. My question is how did someone gain access to my cloud documents and publish on the internet? What and how much do I need to be afraid of? What can I do to protect myself.😟

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-07-16T18:42:44+00:00

    Hi,

    I believe that's not a fake, but a genuine mail from OneDrive. It basically sends you a mail which links to photos backed up in your OneDrive account on the same date of previous years.

    If you can, please post a screenshot of that mail here, and someone can check if it's fake or not.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-07-16T18:43:22+00:00

    Hello loyall, I warmly welcome you to the Community. I'm Israel, an Independent Advisor and I would like to give you some advice to solve this problem. I will be exchanging with you to finally solve the problem.

    The pourpose of this message was get access to your personal information.

    If you consider that your data is unsafe, change your credentials.

    first, you will need to follow the recomendations of Microsoft to keep your account safe, see:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-bil...

    Also, you can follow the recomendations in the section "How you can safeguard your data" in this Microsoft article:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-...

    Additionally, you can see all the sections in the previous article to understand how are safe your information.

    I hope that you can solve the problem, please let me know about it. I'm at your disposal to continue supporting you.

    Virtual Greetings!

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-07-16T19:00:25+00:00

    Stranger_Hanyo. You say it is from One Drive, the other responder said it is a scam. WHICH ONE IS IT? I don't know how to remove my email address from the screenshot, otherwise I could post it here. If you are correct, then how does One Drive get access to my private documents? Documents are supposed to be safe on One Drive.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-07-16T19:09:04+00:00

    Hi,

    You could edit out your email address using MS Paint, Photos app or any other photo editing tool and then post it here.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-07-16T19:21:46+00:00

    Here you go. Here is the top part. I am still working on the rest of the message.

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