Alert! Simple methods are being used for stealing e-mail accounts!!

The following was the email received by me, which, on the first glance appears genuine and one might fall prey to it. If you reply to such mails, your mail account is going to be hijacked and your address book will be used for misleading and extortion of money by scamsters. So do not, I repeat, do not ever provide your login and password details. Genuine mail providers never ask for such details.

The mail received is produced hereunder:
From: "Support"
Subject: Dear Internet user, E-mail Account termination Alert
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:47:23 IST

Dear Account User,

Your email address needs verification for User safety.There is on going email congestion due to anonymous registration of our service so we are shutting down some email accounts and your account was automatically to be deleted. Still interested to use our email services please filling the space below for verification purpose by clicking the reply button.

User name: ...........................
Password: ............................
Date Of Birth ........................
Country: ................................

Your account will not be interrupted after following the instructions and your service will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention

Notice: Account owner that refuses to verify his/her email account after one week of receiving this notice will lose his or her account permanently. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Your's sincerely

Rediffmail