Hotmail service desk rip-off

[gremlin1812]

G’day All, just the other day a spammer got into my Hotmail account and put out a heap of rubbish e-mail’s.
Consequently hotmail suspended my account, so I follow the links to try and get my account fixed and lo and behold I’m on a call centre in India (what a surprise) they waffled on for a while about how bad this spamming and hacking is I then said about getting the account reactivated and (surprise again) they wanted $325A to fix the “problem” I won’t put here what I said but I am almost betting that these are the spammers.
Just be aware as I had a similar thing happen with yahoo and only had to change my password and all was good.
Regards
Barrie

[buffy500]

I'd suggest that you are correct and it was the spammers you were talking to.
Can't see MS would charge to reset an account.

[gremlin1812]

G'day, I have left the account locked and am using a different e mail client now.
Regards
Barrie