Keep receiving a password reset email.

Anonymous
2020-05-14T17:51:44+00:00

Hi, 

I have been receiving an email about resetting my Microsoft password so far today i received 6 messages with the code to reset. This email has not been open in awhile, however i do have it linked to my phone for easy accessibility to emails.  How do i get the emails to stop.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T16:11:09+00:00

    I am getting that message every day several times.  If you get that message every time you click on the forgot password, that means that someone else is trying to get into your email and I don't think that you can do anything about that.  Just make sure that your password is long (mine is 17 characters)  Just wish that you could just have a way that it would stop notifying you and either waking you up or bothering you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T15:46:18+00:00

    What do you mean random points? Looking into doing this too on top of changing the Outlook primary login.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T15:38:45+00:00

    Even better is rewriting your existing gmail address by adding random points in between. For example ******@gmail.com. Gmail ignores these points so you'll still get reset mails but "they" will not guess you recovery mail ;)

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T12:28:26+00:00

    Just done this and changed it to my Gmail account. Lets see if it works.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T12:28:18+00:00

    I am getting these e-mail also. I checked my access page and there are numerous attempts from different countries via an IMAP protocol from multiple IP addresses. It said they are trying an  "Automatic Sync". These attempts are happening 2 to 3 times a day.  You need to see if the IP addresses are being spoofed or if they are coming from a VPN because this is getting very annoying. With all of these people complaining you need to do something.

    Thanks!

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