Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

JimmyJoeBob Alooba — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:35:27 GMT

@Alun - I sometimes do exactly what Jeff does, except that I also engage the IE9 dev tools and NetMon to see exactly what's happening.

Like Jeff, I use a VM todo this work, but unlike Jeff, that VM has no logical or physical connection to my workstation (XP mode may have drives mapped, etc.).

Sadly, as in Jeff's example, I rarely discover anything useful - they're almost always Canada pharma ads.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

Jim Harrison — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:31:51 GMT

@Jeffrey - Don't waste your time responding to these spam-mails.

No one is listening, no one will respond and you may well do nothing more than verify to the spammers and malware distributors that a real human is reading these mails.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

Aciana — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:48:40 GMT

I just delete them or forward them to spam@uce.gov and then delete them and the forward.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

Jeffrey T Valerie — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:02:37 GMT

I just made a comment, but I now save these mail to send to the proper office, that may include me phoning before even emailing (forwarding) that mail. but I would love to send them somewhere like here for professional analysis.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

Jeffrey T Valerie — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:57:39 GMT

I been getting these and usually write them back asking where they know me from and if they don't answer in 48 hours, their blocked and deleted.

I have been getting other mail also, ones from DHL, Lloydes Bank and a booking in some hotel.

This morning a guy who was pissing about getting off a bus said he got some transactions and blaming the driver for not waiting for him to get off, asked me if I would be a third party using my bank account. I told him I get enough emails asking the same thing.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

Jeff Jones - MSFT — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:11:00 GMT

Alun - Im with you. The bigger risk is that instead of redirecting to a Pharma site, it could have taken people to a pre-staged attack page. My assumption is that ones like this might be using URLs in a way to gets the SPAMmer some click ad revenue or some ohter way of monetizing.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

Alun Jones — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:51:10 GMT

I am, quite frankly, mystified as to why someone would click on a 'friend request', see that they are taken to a pharmacy site, and then actually buy something from that site.

If someone phoned me, said "I'm trying to see if you're the same guy I went to school with", I might be inclined to chat for a while - but then if he steps into a pitch selling pharmaceuticals, I can see he's wasting my time with a scam and hang up. I find it hard to understand how people actually spend their money during such a process.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

Ed — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:14:15 GMT

Canada still has cheap prices on Viagra? :-)

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

SteveR — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:30:56 GMT

I received today what at first appeared to be a notification of 2 friend requests from facebook. Tapping on the "2 friend requests" link took me to this same canada site, which I did not explore.

re: Warning : Fake Microsoft notification allegedly from Windows Live

rashid — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:28:31 GMT

it's so important to pay close attention to those e-mail's, that will get you every time.