Hello everyone.
I just woke up today, and I checked my e-mails. And I received an e-mail from Microsoft, about the changes in the Terms of Services.
But I’m quite paranoid about phishing e-mails, but this time I clicked before checking the sender.
The e-mail is from: msa@communication.microsoft.com
The e-mail doesn’t look a phishing one (I didn’t oticed any mistakes normally found in phishing ones).
There’s some links in the e-mail, but I didn’t clicked on them. I also didn’t had any type of attachment.
I also searched in the internet, but I didn’t find anything about this e-mail.
So, this is a fake one? Or a legitimate one?
why would they notify you of a change in the terms of service - you agree to T & S on virtually every software installation.
you don’t have to click on a link to see the underlying location (what is seen on the screen isn’t necessarily the same), when you hover your mouse over it, it should display the url on the screen or status bar at the bottom of the email window.
finally do you have the product or service that the email relates to.
I have never had an email from MS in all of my time and I wouldn’t expect one. Can you imagine the hundreds of millions of users MS has, this could swamp email servers and or get it added to spam listings.
1. does have MS have your email address ?
2. why would they notify you of a change in the terms of service - you agree to T & S on virtually every software installation.
1. yes if you have a MS account
2. it is about this > https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-eu-us-privacy-shield
1 - Yes, since I have a MS account
2 - It’s not the first time they have sent an e-mail for this types of changes, but in this case, it’s a new sender, that I never saw anywhere else
3 - I know, I don’t go clicking on every link (used to do it, but learned from my mistakes).
4 - Well, Windows?
I just kinda paranoid about phishing, since that there’s a probability of an e-mail looks a legitimate one (even the sender e-mail).
That’s something really nice, but in my case, I’m using the Mail app from Windows 10, and the e-mail account that received the e-mail is from Yahoo (and in the Yahoo webmail, only Yahoo e-mails are marked with a symbol).
@ Nori-chan
I was forgetting that you have to create an account in windows 10 (I have been avoiding this for some time). I’m considering it still, but my thoughts were to create a local account and not an internet account. I had heard that this is better privacy wise, but haven’t researched it any further.
So it could well be legit given what Pondus has also said.
Creating an account will let you to sync some configs between computers, activate windows (with the Anniversary Update, the key is linked to your MS account) and be able to use the Store, where I download some apps.
I bet it must be pretty bad, privacy wise, but well, we can disable some of those privacy issues (I think that Spybot can do it).
I bet that MS would like nothing more than to lock everyone into the MS App Store, in much the same way as Apple’s App Store. I really do hate walled garden companies to get you locked into their product.
Privacy wise there are some tools that will disable the major ones, but I’m really against having to use those, your privacy shouldn’t require you to have to switch off a number of functions to prevent that. Cortana most people thing this helps them, but it helps itself by monitoring what you say and are looking for. This could be used for targeted marketing or sold as anonymous data for marketing companies, to MS you are just another cash cow.
I never used the Apple Store, so I can’t say much about it, but at least most of the programs aren’t available in the store since they probably need to run in that metro interface (also run inside of a sandbox, etc), so I don’t think it will have all needed programs for normal users (example: Anti-virus, professional-grade programs like full photohop, etc).
hope you made the wise decision, nori-chan … and chose to not click any of the links in the email … it’s as davidr speculated … ms wouldn’t send you email. this is a dark era humanity is entering … and i see no light at the end of the tunnel. as you have witnessed from some of the unsubstantiable replies … members post just for attention … they care nothing of any ramifications.
this would be especially imperative inside a company … one’s actions could bring down a whole organization … just by opening/clicking link inside email. the question arises … “should you forward the email to your it-dept as a heads-up?” … obviously, the answer would be “no”. there probably are ‘trackers’ within the metadata of the email … alerting the hackers the chain of command within your company.
it’s fairly easy to be lulled into a false sense of security … one must always be on their toes … when dealing with security in commerce. best wishes to you, nori-chan … and others out there as well.
