Is this a legitimate email address ******@accountprotection.microsoft.com?

Question

I received a email, I did not understand and want to know if it is from Microsoft and I wanted to check to see if it is legitimate or not? It came from

******@accountprotection.microsoft.com. Is this from Microsoft?

Answer 1

Hi, I am an Independent Advisor, and welcome to Microsoft Q&A.

Please read below

"If you get an email from Microsoft account team and the email address domain is @accountprotection.microsoft.com, it is safe to trust the message and open it.

Microsoft uses this domain to send email notifications about your Microsoft account. These notifications can include security codes for two-step verification and account update information, such as password changes.

You can check the validity of the email by inspecting the following areas:

Check the email address contains the domain @accountprotection.microsoft.com. You can also view the email's message headers to be sure the email is from Microsoft.

Check the account the email is hinting to belongs to you, and that you have requested the code."

Source link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/can-i-trust-email-from-the-microsoft-account-team-685fd302-f52f-1a9f-cc13-065dec46fe25