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Virus - Email from Microsoft Internet Technical Assistance

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Virus - Email from Microsoft Internet Technical Assistance

 

Received this today for the first time.

 

Outlook blocked the exe automatically, but for those who do get an exe - do not run it!! - can u say virus! - back door!

 

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i love this part

 

Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any replies.

 

Why would microsoft send an email from an unmonitored email address...lol

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unmonitored e-mail address... laugh

 

;; edited ;;

 

You have to give this guy some credits for creativity wink

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Although this is a fake message and has been doing the rounds for a little while, it isn't unheard of for MS to use unmonitored e-mail accounts.

A lot of the Beta e-mail addresses are simply used to send mail messages out and replying to those messages gets you nowhere.

In fact the wording:

"Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any replies"

is exactly what does appear at the bottom of lots of beta related e-mail's.

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But surely the big giveaway is that the e-mail didn't actually come from Microsoft.com...?! laugh

 

AndyF

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But surely the big giveaway is that the e-mail didn't actually come from Microsoft.com...?! laugh

AndyF


That's fairly easy to fake.

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Although this is a fake message and has been doing the rounds for a little while, it isn't unheard of for MS to use unmonitored e-mail accounts.
A lot of the Beta e-mail addresses are simply used to send mail messages out and replying to those messages gets you nowhere.
In fact the wording:
"Please do not reply to this message. It was sent from an unmonitored e-mail address and we are unable to respond to any replies"
is exactly what does appear at the bottom of lots of beta related e-mail's.


Agreed. Actually, most all of the emails I have personally recieved from Microsoft have that added, unless it's an engineer following up on a bug report, etc.

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