The email message below with the subject: "Your E-mail Upgrade Notice," which claims that the recipients' Hotmail, Outlook or Live email accounts should be upgraded or else their accounts will be deactivated, is a phishing scam sent by cybercriminals to frighten the recipients into clicking on a link within the same email message. The link in the fake email message goes to a phishing website that will ask the recipients who have clicked on it to sign-in with their user names and passwords to update their Hotmail, Outlook or Live accounts. But, once the requested information is submitted, it will be sent to the cybercriminals behind the phishing scam. To protect against phishing scams, online users are asked to never click on a link to sign into their online accounts. They should instead, go directly to their online account provider's website by typing the website's address in their web browsers, or use a popular search engine to find their online provider's website. Also, Microsoft will never threaten Hotmail, Outlook or Live users to upgrade their accounts, and threaten deactivation if their users do not comply. Continue reading...