Hotmail wants me to send new/old password to verify that it's really me: do I followed through?

Recently, I received an email from Hotmail support staff.

and they said it (bottom)--> so should I actually send them my password or is it fake?
It seems that if your account has been the subject of many password changes, but also a security answer change attempts in the last 24-72 hours. We would like as a precautionary procedure, allows you to change your password and to respond to this email with your old password and the new as in the example below:

Old password:
New password:

This will help to verify that you are the user of this account. If the information provided does not match our system, or if this email is not answered at the then we will be forced to close this account within a period of monitoring for security purposes.

Windows Live Hotmail password personal support

Don't answer until you ask the question to the forum of Hotmail.

For me, it's a scam.

But, you should make sure the Hormail forum moderators.

Hotmail - forum security and authorization

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/Forum/Hotmail-wlsecurity?tab=unanswered

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