Security of hotmail, windows live hotmail

I received an email (supposedly for UPGRADE of MSN 2011 saying my account was create congestion and I needed to check my name of user and password and my date of birth and country...) I know that it is a blatant phishing scam, but thought that some people might need to know about it.

Thanks for the heads up. For more information, see:

How to avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently

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