Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
That email is not necessary for Outlook, and it should be treated as suspicious unless it came from a legitimate Microsoft account-protection address.
Supported guidance from similar Outlook account phishing cases:
- Emails that ask to click a link to keep Outlook access, accept terms, or avoid deactivation are commonly phishing.
- A message coming from a non-Microsoft sender, such as an AOL address, is not a legitimate Microsoft account update message.
- Microsoft account-related notices are described as coming from domains ending in
@accountprotection.microsoft.com. - Outlook access is not maintained by agreeing to a random “Optonline” email.
What to do next:
- Do not click links or open buttons in that message.
- Report it as phishing or junk.
- Delete it.
- If any link was already clicked, change the Outlook password as a precaution.
The context does not identify any legitimate Outlook application named Optonline or any requirement for Outlook to function that depends on agreeing to it.
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