Is this email legit?

[Leothelion]

Dear Msn customer,

During one of our regular automated verification procedures we've encountered

a tech problem caused by the fact that we could not verify the information that you provided to us.

Please, give us the following information so that we could fully verify your identity.

Otherwise your access to MSN services will be deactivated.

 

To verify your data please follow this link https://start.msnupdating.info/track?verify

 

Thank you for using MSN services.

MSNRestrict Center.

Inc. All Rights Reserved, Redistribution prohibited.

 

The link doesn't seem right either.

 

It looks too simple, bland, unsophisticated.

 

What do you think?

 

Leo

[XpipedreamR]

I'm not sure, but msnupdating.info is registered to a David Fouse if Gilman, Illinois.

 

 

link

 

 

 

Maybe you should take a day trip there and ask him yourself?

 

 

 

 

[Hoot]

Not a chance this is legit. The text is almost word-for-word what the eBay and PayPal scams say. Ignore it.

 

Hoot

[Leothelion]

Gilman's south of Chicago about 100 miles, I could get there in roughly 4 hours or less! Me and the 5th Calvery, that is!

More later!

 

Leo

[scroll]

Send it to spoof@msn.com.

 

I get these spoofs all the time.

[jom]

Geez...even if it was legit I'd ignore it. If they need to get a hold of me write a letter fer chrissakes.

 

jom

[Leothelion]

Hey! There's an interesting article titled, "Don't take the bait!" in Readers Digest concerning ebay and the fraud emails we've all been receiving! "Phishing" is what they're calling it! An estimated 57 million have received these, "email attacks" costing us 1.2 billion dollars in a 12 month period. Looks like we'll eventually need passwords to access our accounts! Like who isn't aware of all this!

 

Leo

[spy88]

Wouldn't it be nice if there was some way to block anyone without prior official authorization from sending out more then 50 emails at one time? Seems there should be technology available to accomplish this and put an end to this kind of [#@$%!!!]!!!! I definitely think that with just a small portion of that $1.2 billion it could be done.

[Leothelion]

David

The good news is, that you and I were not among the 1.75 million who took the bait and gave out their sensitive information to scammers!

That's right! We are smarter than all them dumb people!

And that my friend, is a good feeling!

 

Leo