Email from Windows Live Team

[dotty.]

Morning guys and gals, I'm thinking this is a phishing scam and have reported it to MS as such , not opened the message but the title is:
'Windws Live Closure Notice (virus ID: QK7GHV)'
Anyone else had this and suspicious?

[AB Editor]

No, but it sounds like it. Windows live is very unlikely to close in the near future.

[dotty.]

Exactly Ed, which makes the eejits that thought up the title of the email pretty much, well, eejits really lol

[AB Editor]

Quite right Dot.

I hope you're keeping well.

[ChuckFickens]

The normal one for these is they'd tell you your account is about to be closed for some reason or another unless you clicked on a link in the email and confirmed your username and password.

Of course the link would be to a fake site and you'd just be telling some nasty scammer your details.

[daffy654]

The ones that make me laugh are those that have the word 'SPAM' in the title. I get a couple of them daily in one of my accounts.

[ChuckFickens]

That'll be your mail providers anti-spam service tagging them with the [SPAM] in the subject heading. The normal way it works is each mail is assessed for the likelihood of it being spam and scored out of ten, the higher the score the more likely it is to be spam, then anything with a score of (for example) 3-5 is delivered to you with a [SPAM] tag added to it, anything that scores over 5 is just deleted, anything that scores under 3 is assumed not to be spam and delivered as normal.