MSN Phishing Emails and Blunder Reply

I received a phishing email with a trojan claiming to be from MSN, concerned about the spreading of such trojan I reported to abuse@microsoft.com.   I nearly fall out of my chair when I received the below:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Customer Service.

I understand that you have received an e-mail form MSN Feature.

I would like you to know that MSN feature offer is, in fact, a free subscription for newsletter, advertisement, and many other newsletters. You can subscribe to it to your field of interest like sports, medicine, celebrities, and the list goes on.

Some content in MSN newsletters and offers may relate to products and services provided by third parties. This allows you to receive content about different third party offerings without having to provide your e-mail address to each of these companies.

You may visit the following for more information on MSN Feature offer: http://newsletters.msn.com/Subscribe.aspx

However, if you would like to unsubscribe to this feature, please click on the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the email you received. After clicking on the “unsubscribe” button you will received a contact details, please request them to remove your email address from their database.

Please note that if “unsubscribe” button is not present, we cannot guarantee that it is a valid MSN Newsletters.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do for you relating to this case.

Thank you,

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The rep obviously did not bother to even check the authenticity.  This is a big joke compared to how spoof@ebay.com and spoof@paypal.com had been doing their work.