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Have you seen the domains Microsoft uses? Half the time I am not sure if they are genuine or not, it's actually crazy. Sometimes they use .com, other times .ms. Sometimes Microsoft is in the top-level other times it's in the second-level. Sometimes they have no subdomain, sometimes they have two. It's utterly inconsistent and it's insane to me how close some of them look to actual phishing domains...


If you get credits for Azure they're accessed through microsoftazuresponsorships.com. Why not sponsorships.azure.microsoft.com or something like that? I checked it three times when I got the link, because it's exactly the kind of domain someone would use if they were going to steal your Azure credits.


That's hilarious..


It is not actually important as you know you cannot trust microsoft more than the usual scammer anyway.




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