Is This A Scam?

[elliemay1]

I received an email supposedly from 'Microsoft account team' saying 'Unusual signin activity'. It said that 'a user from Spain/Madrid has just logged into your account from a new device'. It then tells you to click on Report The User if it isn't you.
Do you think this is a scam?

[THECORBYLOON]

"If you aren't sure about the source of an email, check the sender. You'll know it's legitimate if it's from the Microsoft account team at [email protected]"

[ToraToraTora]

I had that, just hover over the link, scam, delete.

[Buenchico]

Check the address that the email has come from:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/can-i-trust-email-from-the-microsoft-account-team-685fd302-f52f-1a9f-cc13-065dec46fe25

[elliemay1]

It's written like this:
Microsoft account team

[elliemay1]

Sorry! It's written like this:

Microsoft account team

[THECORBYLOON]

You need the e-mail address of the sender, if it says, "@accountprotection.microsoft.com", it's genuine, if no, delete and ignore it.

[elliemay1]

When I try to write it, and press send, it blanks out the last bit with the address

[elliemay1]

Thanks, I've just deleted it but opened it first. Is that still ok?

[elliemay1]

Thanks The Corbyloon, Tora Tora Tora and Buenchico

[Arrods]

I've had a couple of these recently. In one, the sender was from a 'genuine' French newspaper address. But today's one simply was from [email protected] - so could be thought to be genuine. As suggested though, I checked my hotmail account and there was no listing of suspicious activity. If there had, I would have got a text and an email to a backup email address - and there were none.

[elliemay1]

Thanks Arrods, mine was like that