Beware of Phishing Scam "Microsoft Reactivate Your Email Account"

An email pretending to be from Microsoft Corporation is at the moment in circulation and is asking recipient to reactivate their email account. This is pure phishing and a way for cyber criminal to harvest email addresses and passwords.
The email content goes as follow:
Subject: REACTIVATE YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT!!!

Attention;
In compliance with the email upgrade instructions from
Microsoft Corporation and WWW email domain host, all unverified email accounts would be suspended for verification.
To avoid suspension of your email account and also to retain all email Contents, please perform one time automatic verification by completing the online verification form.
Please CLICK HERE
for the online verification form.
As a confirmation of complete and successful verification, you shall be automatically be redirected to your email web page.
Please move this message to your inbox, if found in bulk folder. Please do this for all your email accounts.
Thank you.
WWW. mail Support Team.
© 2014 Microsoft Corporation.

When users click on the link provided, they are directed to a fake website where they are asked to provide their personal information such as email address, password, phone number date of birth and whether they are using a public or private computer.
We advise our readers not to provide information to such stuffs! No email provider will send these request. If you have been a victim of this scam, change your password immediately.

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