A popular tactic of criminals is the "fake order" scam. The way it works is that you get a message, usually in email or text, that appears to be a routine confirmation for an order. Of course, you never ordered whatever product or service it's confirming. The message looks common enough, and it says that money will be charged to your credit card or withdrawn from your bank account for the ...

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Here are the most likely causes for an unrecognized charge: A Microsoft subscription has recurring billing enabled. Someone you know, such as a family member, bought something with your card. You can now investigate this on the Manage your payments page. A previously declined charge was charged again. A pre-order or split order was shipped. Someone made an in-app purchase from an app, game, or ...

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Whenever you sign in to your Microsoft account, you may also get sign-in approval notifications in the Outlook mobile app. You will see sign-in requests appear either on the lock screen or in the Outlook mobile app. You'll also be able to get one-time passcodes, which you can copy/paste into other sign-in screens.

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Your Outlook.com account might be temporarily blocked because we noticed some unusual sign-in activity. We know that having your account blocked is frustrating, but we also want to protect you from fraud or abuse. To unblock your account, select the button to begin: Sign-in Helper

Learn more about why Microsoft 365 users can't open or view attachments in Outlook on the web. Share your files safely There are several ways to send and receive a blocked file. You can save the file to the cloud and send a link to the file, use a file compression utility like WinZip, or even rename the file with another extension, then have your recipient change the name back to the original ...

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