Well of COURSE it's legit!

Dear User,
 
    We are sorry to inform you that we are currently working on securing our
    server for the year, during this process accounts which are not manually verified by us
    will be deleted, Please confirm and submit your information for manual
    verification.
 
    Information which is to be provided is below:
    User Name:
    User Id:
    Password:
    Date Of Birth:
    Occupation:
 
    Upon confirmation of information from you, we will manually verify your
    Hot mail! Account and reserve it from being deleted, we are sorry for any
    inconveniences this might have caused providing your information over the
    email.
    Warning Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two
    weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
    Thanks  Hot mail.. 


Spammers would be greatly benefited by some self-study on grammar and punctuation.  :)