Greetings,
My elderly Father got an email from stremail<at>microsoft.com, stating:
“Thanks for subscribing to Assure Software Support. We’re happy you’re here.
You’ll be charged the next recurring payment for your subscription soon. On Friday, September 24, 2021, we’ll charge $99.00 plus applicable taxes to your Visa **xxxx.
Your subscription will continue for 1 year unless you cancel at least two days before Friday, September 24, 2021.
To cancel or make other changes, sign into your Microsoft account to manage your subscription.”
I’m in the IT Biz but I mainly work with Business m365 customers, is this his subscription renewal to his personal 365 App rental, or is this something else? (I don’t have admin access to his personal account). He is certain he never signed up for “Assure”. Is this some kind of marketing “upsell”, kind of like those “fake” invoices for yellow page ads you may have seen arrive in the snail mail that look like an invoice (which we ignored), or is this a modern day equivalent of a long distance phone company “slamming” a customer?