[Mr.Guvernment]

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!



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

[nebulus]

unmonitored e-mail address...

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You have to give this guy some credits for creativity

[adamvjackson]

This has been circulating for a while now. Obviously not from Microsoft.

[BladeRunner]

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.

[AndyFair]

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

AndyF

[ViolentGreen]

Quote:

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

AndyF

That's fairly easy to fake.

[adamvjackson]

Quote:

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.