If you receive the following email, you may be at risk
from a malicious attack if you follow the instructions
contained within. Can anyone verify the validity of this
email?:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Microsoft .NET Passport
[mailto:PPMSVCMG@PASSPORT.NET]
Sent: May 5, 2004 12:15 AM
To:
Subject: Important message from Microsoft .NET Passport -
action
required
Hello :
This is an important message from Microsoft concerning
the Microsoft .NET Passport account associated with your
sympatico.ca e-mail address.
Both Microsoft and Bell Canada are committed to
simplifying your online experience. Therefore we are
taking efforts to ensure that active Bell Sympatico
Internet customers can continue to use the .NET Passport
that is associated with their sympatico.ca e-mail
address.
Since there is a Passport account associated to your
Sympatico e-mail address, we ask that you please verify
that you are the user of the Passport account and that
you give consent to Bell Canada to manage your
Microsoft .NET Passport account. It's a quick and easy
process to verify your account.
Instructions on how to verify your account are below, as
well as some important questions and answers.
To verify your Passport account:
1. In your Web browser, type passport.net in the
Address bar and press Enter.
2. On the Passport home page, click the Sign In
button, and sign in to your Passport account.
3. Follow the instructions to verify your e-mail
address.
If you did not register the Passport using this e-mail
address, or if you do not agree to give Bell Canada
consent to manage your Passport account, take no action,
and we will disable the Passport account 20 days from the
date this message was sent. This will have no affect on
your Sympatico subscription or sympatico.ca e-mail
address.
To request additional help from Passport Customer
Support, click
http://register.passport.net/contactus.srf?LC=1033.
Important Questions and Answers
What is a .NET Passport account?
Microsoft .NET Passport is a service that enables you to
sign in to multiple services, such as MSN Messenger or
Hotmail, with a single e-mail address and password. For
more information, visit the Passport home page at
http://www.passport.net.
I don't have a Passport account. Why am I seeing this
message?
Another person may have created a Passport account with
your current sympatico.ca e-mail address (such as a
family member, or an individual who had the e-mail
address before you). This does not mean that the user has
access to your e-mail messages or any other personal
information - it simply means that they have used the e-
mail address as a sign-in name for their Passport account.
If this is the case, you can ignore this e-mail message
and do nothing, and 20 days from the date this message
was sent, we will disable the user from using your e-mail
address as their Passport sign-in name.
What does it mean to give consent to Bell Canada to
manage my sympatico.ca .NET Passport?
As the owner of the sympatico.ca domain, Bell Canada
assigns sympatico.ca e-mail addresses. In addition,
sympatico.ca is now a 'sponsored domain' which is
associated with a special kind of .NET Passport where
Bell Canada will ensure only Bell Sympatico Internet
customers can obtain sympatico.ca .NET Passports.
What happens if I don't verify my e-mail address or give
Sympatico consent to manage my Passport account?
After 20 days from the date this e-mail message was sent,
if you have not yet verified your e-mail address with
Passport, you will no longer be able to sign in to any
Passport participating site until you change the e-mail
address in your Passport account.
In addition, you will lose data associated with your
Passport sign-in e-mail address, such as your MSN
Messenger contact list.
No matter what your decision is, your existing Sympatico
subscription and e-mail account will not be affected.
Only your Passport account will be affected.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Passport is committed to protecting your privacy. We
encourage you to review the Passport privacy statement
at:
http://www.passport.net/privacypolicy.asp
To request additional help from Passport Customer
Support, click
http://register.passport.net/contactus.srf?LC=1033
Please do not reply to this message; it was sent from an
unmonitored e-mail address and we are unable to respond
to any replies.