The latest phish to go around arrives in your inbox as a Microsoft Azure Alert:
This email is quite convincing. The sender’s address truly is from a Microsoft.com domain, so it is likely to skirt your spam filter. It uses real Microsoft graphics and links. The language is fairly clean. There’s a lot of truthiness to this scam, because someone’s Microsoft Azure account has been compromised, and the bad guys are inside of it, sending these messages from a normally-legitimate source.
But this is a scam, and you must beware. I know recipients of this will find the email confusing. But that’s part of the intent. The cybercriminals want to frustrate and confound their victims, so that they are more likely to call the phone number buried in the body of the email. Please, whatever you do, do not call the phone number in this sort of message! Anyone who dials the number will encounter remote control scammers. They will talk fast and try to get into your computer. Victims may soon find their bank accounts emptied and their computers in shambles!
If you recognize this email in your inbox, mark it as spam or phishing and get rid of it!