Re: New Passport profile I didn't sign up for

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 08/12/05


Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:41:15 -0500

They are probably fake. If the address doesn't exist then how did it get to
you,...since it would have been sent to the fake address (and failed) and
not you?....if it was "real".

-- 
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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"KitKat" <KitKat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:61B3BFB7-7405-46D0-886A-F850C56D0CEE@microsoft.com...
> Today I logged into my corporate e-mail account and saw two emails from MS
> Passport service. One was to confirm the email address that doesn't exist
on
> my corporate email system. The next message was a welcome to MS Passport
for
> the same nonexistent email address.
>
> This causes me a lot of concern - did someone hack into my corporate email
> account to confirm the address to get the second welcome email after they
> signed up using an arbitrary email with my domain name? The two emails
have
> exactly the same time stamp.
>
> I clicked on a link in the first confirmation email to delete the account,
> but should I take any further precautions?


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