The email message below with the subject: "Account de-Activation Alert (Confirm Request)," which appears as if it came from Microsoft Outlook, claiming a deactivation request for the recipient's account has been received, is a phishing scam. The phishing email scam was sent by cyber-criminals and not by Outlook or Microsoft, to steal Outlook users’ account credentials by frightening them into clicking on a link that the cyber-thieves claim will cancel the deactivation request. So, recipients of the same email message should delete it and should never follow the instructions in it. Continue reading...