Microsoft account unusual sign-in activity email, -----> Is this phishing?

I received this email - and it went to my junk email. Although the from address looks legit, some of the links look suspect - they have mailchimp in them and an email address @ northmarket.uk . Is this a legitimate email from Microsoft?

Me as well. Also went to junk email. Nothing in the sign-in activity log, appears to be spoofing.

Sign-in details

Country/region: Russia/Moscow

IP address: 103.225.77.255

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:51:03 +0000

Platform: Google Pixel 4

Browser: Mozilla Firefox

A user from Russia/Moscow just logged into your account from a new device, If this wasn't you, please report the user. If this was you, we'll trust similar activity in the future.

I have the same issue as usingthisisapain!

I read the above advise, and clicked the It was not me link. Well and good, but the a reply email that popped had a Google address for my response. *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

I'm concerned. Why would Microsoft use Gmail to receive it's response? Yes, I have a Chromebook and alternate using both Win10 and Chrome browsers on my Windows laptop, but it Still seems like Phishing to me. I'm not sending this until I get some clarification, and taking it out of my SPAM folder and putting into my Inbox so it won't disappear in another 7 days.
Thank you to anyone that can give me some peace of mind
Donna

Donna, those emails are indeed phishing. Microsoft would not use a Google address. The actual address was removed from your post, but I suspect it said "googlemail.com" and not even "gmail.com". Another sign it is bogus. You should re-mark that mail as spam / delete it.

It would not surprise me if the secondary aim of those mails were to get people to stop paying attention to any actual alerts that come through by just overloading us.

If you are ever concerned about activity, see https://account.live.com/Activity. You can learn more about the Recent Activity page at What is the Recent activity page? (microsoft.com)

That is exactly the same thing that happened with me it went to my junk mail! I had to jump thru a bunch of hoops and answer a ton of questions to verify my account and then had to wait until they approved my answers that I gave enough and correct answers to verify my account then it finally let me change my password so I’m going to see if that helps and this doesn’t happen again! It just seems really weird to me that so many people are getting the same email about unusual sign in activity and from the same place Russia definitely seems like something is up!