Email

According to this email, which purports to be from AOL, you recently made a request to shut down your email account. The message claims that the request will be processed shortly. 

Inboxes are currently being hit by emails that urge you to click to view documents on Microsoft’s file hosting service OneDrive.

The newsletter will feature articles from Hoax-Slayer and other interesting and relevant websites. It will help you stay informed about current Internet scams and hoaxes, important computer security issues, and related tech topics.

Brief emails claiming that you have messages waiting and can click to view the notifications are currently hitting inboxes. 

According to this email, which claims to be a high-level security warning,  your email account is about to be terminated.

According to this email, which may look like it was sent by your email service provider, you need to enable “2nd step security” on your email account.

This supposed “Security Alert” message warns that your email account will be deactivated if you do not click a button and add a recovery number.

Most modern browsers have built-in mechanisms that try to protect users from phishing scams. If a user clicks a link in a reported phishing scam email, the browser will display a page that warns that the user is about to go to a fraudulent website

Journalists have often asked me if I think modern technology such as email, social media, and the Internet has made it easier to perpetrate hoaxes than it was in earlier times.

According to this supposed server upgrade warning, you have messages pending because you have used 98% of your email account storage.