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Copper Contributor

Feb 16, 2022

Legitimate email address

Hi, we keep getting email from this address: maccount@microsoft.com and a quick search online shoes it as both suspicious and legitimate! Obviously can't be both so does anyone know if it is a genuin...

Copper Contributor

Feb 18, 2022

Email address removed is used for approval mails. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/power-automate-approval-email-delivery-information-cfcc9bff-673b-493e-cc99-ff31fc7b6f66 If the originating IP address of the mail you received is listed, the email is genuine.

jrpentland24
Copper Contributor
Apr 16, 2023
Davy_A I have a similar question. I received an email from email address removed for privacy reasons and the IP isn't anywhere in the link you sent over (SPF - 40.92.18.249 <-- the IP from my message). When I ran a who.is on it it came back as hosted by Microsoft, but I'm still bothered by the content of the message. It was regarding getting myself back into a secondary email account I had created to act as a 'spam' catch all, and it was telling me that they couldn't grant access to me for my account without some more information, and they included links for me to click on, which I didn't do. I never requested any of this, this is a fairly new account (>1 month old) so I went to log into outlook for this account and I got right in without any issues. There was also nowhere to click on "I didn't request this" or another link to report a fraudulent request as I've seen when I really did try to reset my account or password somewhere.

If you'd like a copy of the email and headers, please let me know.

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