I call this spam

[chrisrob]

What do you think?

I have a little-used hotmail account. I've just received this email: "Dear Windows Live User,

We are contacting you regarding your communication preference settings for Windows Live and MSN.

Currently, your settings do not allow Microsoft to send you promotional information or survey invitations about Windows Live and MSN. We would like to communicate important product updates to you, so if you would like to change your settings, please visit your account profile here to change your preferences.

Sincerely,
The Windows Live Team "

The reason I have the settings as they are is I do not want spam!

[BilluSugger]

Microsoft is Evil !

[VHG]

Are you sure this IS from Microsoft.

Sounds like a phishing email to me, trying to get personal information off you.

Can you find out what web site it directs you to and let us know, then we can advise if it is genuine or not.

[chrisrob]

I was wondering whether it was phishing though looks genuine enough. (But I guess most phishing does.)

It comes from [email protected] and if I were to follow the link it would take me to this page: https://account.live.com/marketingpreferences.aspx?mkt=en-us&%24ru=%2C&id=9&vv=650&lc=1033 which is exactly the same page as I would get if I were to go through the links from my genuine hotmail account.

I did mark it as "phishing scam" (which is supposedly then reported back to msn?)

I would somehow like to give them the message that this is totally unacceptable and made me very angry.

I wondered if anyone else had had this?

Chris

[johnpol78]

are you sure that you get the mail is from the Microsoft .

why Microsoft wants to change your account settings.
its your personal mail so check the first that may be it will be phishing mail

some send you this mail so that he get all your account settings. so careful about the account settings and the privacy.