. . . . designed to steal your AOL, Gmail, Yahoo or Windows Live passwords.

Security firm Sophos has warned users to be wary of emails which claim to come from privacy@microsoft.com. The emails, which are cleverly designed to resemble official alerts from Microsoft, tell users that their computer is at high risk and advises visiting a supposed "update" page.

Upon clicking the link, however, users are directed to a phishing site which attempts to harvest email addresses for webmail services including Gmail and AOL mail. Once the fraudsters have access to your account they can gather personal information and potentially use it to commit identity theft.

To view the full details of this Action Fraud warning and to see an example of the email go to : Hackers target Gmail, Yahoo and AOL passwords

Has anyone else had the one from ?? HMRC asking you to contact them regading a tax refund !!

I have had dozens. But I don't get to see them for they go directly into my Spam folder. In fact I've had 276 spam emails in the last 22 hours.

Michael Crane wrote:I have had dozens. But I don't get to see them for they go directly into my Spam folder. In fact I've had 276 spam emails in the last 22 hours.

My fingers are worn to the bone !!

HMRC have a phishing site to send them on to, hopefully they will get taxed on them, or is Spam exempt from VAT.