'Your Password Expires Today' Email Scam
The Internet is full of traps and tricks, all intending to induce computer users into downloading software, clicking on a presented button, accessing a link and other techniques, all of which will result in monetary gains for its operators. The 'Your Password Expires Today' email scam is one of these misleading traps. It impersonates Microsoft, to inform computer users that they need to confirm their passwords for their Microsoft accounts.
The email that will be presented to the users is:
'Subject: Ticket [AF270438] was opened 16_08 PM 07 Feb 2022
Microsoft
Your Password Expires Today
Your 90 day(s) account security validity period expires today for *******, you must re-validate your account today.
To avoid temporary issues relating to your microsoft account, you must re-validate your account.
Use the button below to keep current password or change it to a new one.
Keep Password>
Note: We will not be held responsible for any account loss.
Account information
Account ID: DA034250-R37
Organization name: -
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Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
Microsoft'
Although the email can be very tricky since it appears to be genuine, due to all the elements it contains, nothing on it is true and there's no need to follow the instructions of the fraudsters. The objective of the 'Your Password Expires Today' email scam is to lead you into pressing a 'Keep Password' button, which contains a hyperlink that will trigger the launching of several corrupted websites that will offer unsafe applications posing as useful security tools, false updates and other programs that may be appealing to the computer user.
Do not be fooled by the 'Your Password Expires Today' email scam. Instead, remove it from your machine with a malware scanner.
