Is this email safe?

[madsriisager]

A person in my family got an email from " outlook@email2.office.com". It was about updating his Windows Live Mail 2011 to 2012.

Is this email fake or real? Can it be trusted?

 

[COLGeek]

Without seeing the header information of the complete message, we really can't assess if this is legit or not.

 

[JamesSneed]

When in doubt toss it out.

 

[COLGeek]

When in doubt toss it out.

+1

 

[Solandri]

Just to reiterate, the From: line in an email is trivial to fake. Unfortunately, this part of the email protocol dates back from 1982, when "the Internet" was a place where everyone trusted each other, so the receiving email server just believes the sending site with it says the email is from president@whitehouse.gov.

You should never "trust" an email just because the From: line says it's from an official source.