{"id":72880,"date":"2010-05-11T07:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T07:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72880"},"modified":"2010-05-11T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T07:28:37","slug":"account-alert-mail-nothing-but-a-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/account-alert-mail-nothing-but-a-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Account Alert&#8221; mail&#8230;..Nothing but a spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/account_alert_live_mail.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like everyone, I keep on getting such stupid\/funny mails. Yesterday, I received one such mail (shown above) on my Windows Live ID.<\/p>\n<p>The Subject is \u201cACCOUNT ALERT\u201d which will make anyone to open the mail and so did I. The From field displays the name \u201cWindows Live Team\u201d but the email-id shown is totally irrelevant unless Microsoft would have been in scooter spares business. The mail body tries to explain that congestion due to \u201canonymous\u201d registration is the reason why \u201cgenuine\u201d accounts (like the one I have) will be deleted\u2026\u2026Wow\u2026\u2026.Superb! Next, it asks for Username, Password and other personal information. Lastly it displays a warning, which is enough for many of the users to make them reply with their personal information.<\/p>\n<p>No genuine email service asks you for your personal information in the way the mail does.<\/p>\n<p>So the first thing to do after reading such mail is\u2026\u2026\u2026.DELETE IT.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like everyone, I keep on getting such stupid\/funny mails. Yesterday, I received one such mail (shown above) on my Windows Live ID. The Subject is \u201cACCOUNT ALERT\u201d which will make anyone to open the mail and so did I. The From field displays the name \u201cWindows Live Team\u201d but the email-id shown is totally irrelevant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}