On august 8th I received a suspicious looking email from Windows Live Hotmail, asking for my name, email address, D.O.B., password, profession and 
country of origin.   I was asked to forward this info to *** Email address is removed for privacy ***  and that failure to do so would result in the immediate closing of my hotmail account.  I need to know if this is legitimate or a scam . Can anyone help??  Please reply.  Thanks,  Angela