Security...Can someone verify if the below email is a valid email from Microsoft

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Security...Can someone verify if the below email is a valid email from Microsoft

Shelly Curry 26

Hello,

Can someone verify if the below email is a valid email from Microsoft?

Microsoft account team <info@wewe .global>
Sun 1/16/2022 10:54 PM
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The following security info was recently added to the Microsoft account shellycurry@Karima ben .com:
cpeyton@Stuff .com
If this was you, then you can safely ignore this email.
If this wasn't you, a malicious user has access to your account. Please review your recent activity and we'll help you secure your account.
No it wasn't me
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Thanks,
The Microsoft account team

Diana Montgomery 6 Reputation points

2022-03-30T02:09:08.92+00:00

I received the same email with "Microsoft account team <******@notifications.skype.com>" as the supposed return email address. Skype is Microsoft. So, it could appear to be genuine. However, this looks suspicious. How would someone add an address to my email account? It is possible but not likely. So, I checked.

What I always do with suspicious emails is to reply to the email. When you do so, check to see who you are really replying to. It will say in the To: box. In my case, the reply address was astriti100@Stuff .com. Gmail and Microsoft definitely have nothing to do with each other. Also, phishers love to use Gmail addresses. It must be easy for scammers to get a Gmail address. If you receive anything supposedly from Microsoft with anything to do with Gmail, like cpeyton@Stuff .com, it is a phishing email.
Diana Montgomery 6 Reputation points

2022-03-30T02:09:28.98+00:00

I received the same email with "Microsoft account team <******@notifications.skype.com>" as the supposed return email address. Skype is Microsoft. So, it could appear to be genuine. However, this looks suspicious. How would someone add an address to my email account? It is possible but not likely. So, I checked.

What I always do with suspicious emails is to reply to the email. When you do so, check to see who you are really replying to. It will say in the To: box. In my case, the reply address was astriti100@Stuff .com. Gmail and Microsoft definitely have nothing to do with each other. Also, phishers love to use Gmail addresses. It must be easy for scammers to get a Gmail address. If you receive anything supposedly from Microsoft with anything to do with Gmail, like cpeyton@Stuff .com, it is a phishing email.

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Diana Montgomery 6 Reputation points

2022-03-30T02:09:08.92+00:00

I received the same email with "Microsoft account team <******@notifications.skype.com>" as the supposed return email address. Skype is Microsoft. So, it could appear to be genuine. However, this looks suspicious. How would someone add an address to my email account? It is possible but not likely. So, I checked.

What I always do with suspicious emails is to reply to the email. When you do so, check to see who you are really replying to. It will say in the To: box. In my case, the reply address was astriti100@Stuff .com. Gmail and Microsoft definitely have nothing to do with each other. Also, phishers love to use Gmail addresses. It must be easy for scammers to get a Gmail address. If you receive anything supposedly from Microsoft with anything to do with Gmail, like cpeyton@Stuff .com, it is a phishing email.
Diana Montgomery 6 Reputation points

2022-03-30T02:09:28.98+00:00

I received the same email with "Microsoft account team <******@notifications.skype.com>" as the supposed return email address. Skype is Microsoft. So, it could appear to be genuine. However, this looks suspicious. How would someone add an address to my email account? It is possible but not likely. So, I checked.

What I always do with suspicious emails is to reply to the email. When you do so, check to see who you are really replying to. It will say in the To: box. In my case, the reply address was astriti100@Stuff .com. Gmail and Microsoft definitely have nothing to do with each other. Also, phishers love to use Gmail addresses. It must be easy for scammers to get a Gmail address. If you receive anything supposedly from Microsoft with anything to do with Gmail, like cpeyton@Stuff .com, it is a phishing email.

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no, it isn't. Check the "account team" email address
https://news.trendmicro.com/2022/01/18/beware-of-spam-scam-emails-from-wewe-global-microsoft-paypal-facebook-more/

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Margarita Storey 0 Reputation points

2023-03-01T04:19:35.3+00:00

I want to know if this is a valid email address: ******@hotmail.com?
Diana Montgomery 6 Reputation points

2023-03-01T05:36:00.1333333+00:00

That only works with Microsoft accounts and the link you provided is dead.

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Margarita Storey 0

******@hotmail.com is a valid email address?

Diana Montgomery 6 Reputation points

2023-03-01T05:33:54.5566667+00:00

That is a really hard question. That could be an Army email address. The U.S. Government does use Outlook and might have some Hotmail email addresses even though Hotmail is usually an older account. You can still choose a Hotmail address when starting a new Microsoft email account but, from what I saw, they mostly use Outlook.

If you think that it is a scam, reply. Don't send it. Just check to see if the sender address is the same as what you see as the supposed email address.

Scammers spoof email addresses. That is, they make it look like they are sending the email from a different email address than they are actually sending it from. When you start to reply, you see where it actually came from or it will be blank if they make it blank.

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