when i had that problem with hotmail hackers, this is the enail that i got first that i think triggered it. it came into my hotmail inbox and messed everything up. that's why i don't have hotmail anymore.

now i got it on my verizon account. so be very careful. this is a scam and the info is used to get into your account. they never did anything with my info except make make me nuts, but i think they could have.

my advice is do not give this information out to anyone.

From: ©Webmail Administrator Internet Technical Support <[email protected]>
Subject: Dear Webmail Email User
To:
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 2:33 PM

Attention E-mail Account Holder,

Dear Webmail Email User. All mailhub systems will undergo regularly
scheduled maintenance, and access to your mailbox via our mail portal will
be unavailable for some time during this maintenance period.

We shall be carrying out service maintenance/upgrade on our database and
e-mail account center for better online services. We are also deleting all
unused e-mail accounts to create more space for new accounts.In order to
ensure you do not experience service interruptions or possible deactivation
of your e-mail account, Please you must reply to this mail immediately
confirming your e-mail account details below for confirmation and
identification.
_____________________________________
1. First Name & Last:
2. Full Login Email:
3. Username:
4 Password:
5. Current Password:
_____________________________________
Failure to do this may automatically render your e-mail account
deactivated from our e-mail database/mail server. To enable us upgrade
your e-mail account, please do reply to this mail.

Webmaster Information
Technical Services
Account Management.

I have earthlink and have gotten this message about 10 times in the past 3 months. I have never sent in my info and forwarded it to customer service.

So yes please beware!


Sheila

There's absolutely no reason to give out this information... they obviously already have your email address, and they already know your password...they send it to you if YOU forget it...

I have not received anything like this, but I do appreciate the information so I can be on the lookout for it.

I have a Gmail account and never had a single problem

Never never never answer an email requesting your password or account info. ESPECIALLY if it is from a "bank". I regularly get emails from random banks telling me they need my bank account information. Occasionally the email is named from a bank I use. Never will banks or email account providers or credit card companys ask for this information! If you recieve an email like this, contact the fraud department of the email account provider (I.e. Hotmail) or the bank whose name is being used and report the email! I have done that on several occasions. Never never never give this information to phone solicitors either!

There's a reason you have a password....it's so idiots like that can't get into your accounts. Do NOT give out passwords or personal info. If, in fact, they are cleaning out the e-mail logon IDs -- then they can do a data file that will search them out by "last accessed date". Anything that hasn't had an access since xx/xx/2009 for example. What you have is a scam!!!

Every couple of months I get one of those in my yahoo account. I always delete them.

i had one in my old hotmail account. it screwed up all my profile info, changed my password, my user id, everything. i couldn't get my own email. i couldn't get out of the account because i couldn't sign in. it went around in circles. finally i got an answer from hotmail telling me that because i was not a paid user (i didn't pay for msn - i had free hotmail) i had no support, but they would try to close the account. we never could. i still don't know why. they got me in only long enough to delete my entire contact list, but only after my contacts got emails from 'me', saying i was in london and needed money. there was recently an article in the local paper telling about that particular scam. then, i was suddenly unable to get in again and i didn't care. the account is still open, as far as i know. i have my info out of there, so i don't care. i never had that problem with gmail.

now, for the first time i got this email in my verizon! yahoo account. 2x in one day. so it's going around again. so just be on the lookout. i was so stupid.

In addition to all the above, one huge tip off is spelling and punctuation errors.