I received an email from my hotmail stating that my account would be closed if I don't answer within 72 hours with my email address, user name and password.

Need to know if it is a scam or not.

This seems to be a phishing attempt. Although any link may look similar to going to a legitimate site of Hotmail, it will probably go to some infamous web page designed to collect your personal information.

Delete it with prejudice.

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