'Independent Advisors' work for contractors hired by Microsoft. Support I am an unpaid volunteer and do not work for Microsoft. Protect yourself from phishing schemes and other forms of online fraud - Office It is an attempt to take over your computer, steal your data, your money and your identity. Questions and comments are answered in the forums themselves, not elsewhere.Ī request asking you to contact someone is fake. Do not click links to phony agents in your web No legitimate person or entity will ever ask you to call or contact them. Just in case, here's my warning:ĭo NOT respond to replies asking you to contact Microsoft Support, Executive, agent, tech, MVP, advisor or anyone else.
You may have not seen the message (it was deleted from the forum),īut if you had subscribed to the thread would you have received an email with the scam message. This is a standard warning that I give whenever I see a thread had a message from a support scammer.
