Just received a request to join Microsoft's

[Windows Central Question]

Received email, supposedly from Microsoft, asking me to assist in their "Spam Fighter" program. They will allow one spam email per day to get through to me, and I am to confirm whether it is spam.

Sounds phony to me. Could be carrying malware.

 

[xandros9]

I have never heard of this program, but that's just me.

 

[theefman]

Microsoft typically doesn't initiate contact for test programs unless you specifically sign up to notifications and their current method is to use preview programs. Sounds dodgy.

 

[Chintan Gohel]

Received email, supposedly from Microsoft, asking me to assist in their "Spam Fighter" program. They will allow one spam email per day to get through to me, and I am to confirm whether it is spam.

Sounds phony to me. Could be carrying malware.

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[tgp]

Yes that sure sounds like a scam to me. If Microsoft wanted to test spam like that, they could easily set up their own "personal" email accounts At the very least they could arrange it with Microsoft employees.

I'm just curious here, but was the email written with poor English? I've heard that scammers use bad English on purpose to weed out people who are likely to catch on to the fact that it's a scam right at the onset. If someone replies to something like that, the battle is half won!