URGENT! E-mail Account Phishing Scam BEWARE!

I just received the below e-mail and it is a phishing scam to gain access to your e-mail accounts. Your accounts may hold e-mailed information regarding logins to different accounts that you do business with. DO NOT respond to this e-mail if you get it.

Notice how they cover ALL of the major e-mail accounts like Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Gmail. Notice how they sign it Microsoft AND Yahoo. Right! Please do not provide ANY information to these scumbags! Here is the e-mail to watch for:


Dear Account User,

This message is from the yahoo/Microsoft Inc to all our yahoo, hotmail and gmail account users. We are having congestions due to the anonymous registration of yahoo, hotmail and gmail accounts.

In view of the above and in order to give our account users better services, we are carrying out account validation in order to ascertain anonymous email accounts users as well as update current users.

If you are still interested and want to continue using your current email account, you are hereby requested to kindly fill your login information in the space below. Upon the successful filling of the information, your account will be upgraded and continue to function as normal.

* User name: ...............................
* Password: ................................
* Date of Birth: ...........................
* Country or Territory: ....................

Warning!!! If you fail to provide the required information within 72 hours of receipt of this message, we shall have no option than to delete your account permanently as one of the anonymous email accounts users.

We apologize for any inconveniences this might have caused you.

Sincerely,

Microsoft/ Yahoo Account Services
Copyright © 2010 Microsoft/Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved

Be safe out there!

Mary