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Microsoft 365 scam
emperorbruce
Posts: 8 Forumite
On 21 December 2024 I received an email from Microsoft telling me that they would be taking £59.99 from my credit card for my annual Microsoft 365 Personal subscription. On 20th January 2025 I received an email saying that they would be charging £84.99 next year. There is a video on YouTube explaining what Microsoft are up to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVPThx7yss&list=LL&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB
If you have a Microsoft 365 account make sure you spot what they are trying to do to you
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This has also happened to me. Theres no way I can see to contact them to find out why this has happened and how to get a refund!!0
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contact your card company? tell.them the 89.99 was unauthorised companies cannot just add chargeable things without your agreement0
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I've just realised they were warning me of NEXT year's charge. I have changed my account to 'Basic' from next year which only costs £16
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So not a scam then. How about amending the thread title?emperorbruce said:I've just realised they were warning me of NEXT year's charge. I have changed my account to 'Basic' from next year which only costs £1610 -
Sadly not, as they are warning you a year in advance of the change of subscription.Olinda99 said:contact your card company? tell.them the 89.99 was unauthorised companies cannot just add chargeable things without your agreement
Which gives you a whole year to action as per @emperorbruce has done.
SCAM has to be the most over used word on this site....Life in the slow lane9 -
Warning you in advance of a price increase happening next year would seem to be the exact opposite of of a scam.5
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shortly followed by rip offborn_again said:
Sadly not, as they are warning you a year in advance of the change of subscription.Olinda99 said:contact your card company? tell.them the 89.99 was unauthorised companies cannot just add chargeable things without your agreement
Which gives you a whole year to action as per @emperorbruce has done.
SCAM has to be the most over used word on this site....1 -
born_again said:Olinda99 said:contact your card company? tell.them the 89.99 was unauthorised companies cannot just add chargeable things without your agreement
SCAM has to be the most over used word on this site....
It probably isn't the most overused, but I'd be fairly confident that it's the most misused word! It's rare indeed to read SCAM in a thread title and find when you read the thread that it actually is about a scam.
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That will be next year 🤣friolento said:
shortly followed by rip offborn_again said:
Sadly not, as they are warning you a year in advance of the change of subscription.Olinda99 said:contact your card company? tell.them the 89.99 was unauthorised companies cannot just add chargeable things without your agreement
Which gives you a whole year to action as per @emperorbruce has done.
SCAM has to be the most over used word on this site....Life in the slow lane1
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