Tax invoice from Microsoft?

[King Herald]

Last night I bought a Xbox live Gold membership, using PayPal.

This morning I get an email informing me my Microsoft tax invoice is ready. It looks exactly like the mail informing me I purchased Xbox Gold, same format etc.

I'm worried about opening it, just in case of the obvious, but is it genuine? 'Invoice' makes me think I have to pay something....

[AndrewEH1]

IIRC that's just the way Microsoft do things. You can always just download and virus scan the file to be sure.

[SS2.]

If you're worried about the email (but want a copy of the invoice), log in to your Microsoft account and view / download it from there.

[LordGrover]

This one is/was genuine - obvs can't vouch for yours, but so long as you have decent protection in place should be fine to check it out.

[FN2TypeR]

I get one similar to the post above mine when I buy something from Xbox live - same again, can't vouch for yours, but they do send them out after you've made a purchase or renewed a subscription.

[King Herald]

Okay, sounds kosher then. I don't need to see it, just wandered if it was a scam/virus that had somehow found out I had bought something from Microsoft and was, er, trying to scam me.

I will assume the 'invoice' doesn't mean they are asking me to pay something else.

[Vocal Minority]

Its the equivalent of the piece of paper you get in the box with your Amazon order

I send invoices out for stuff already paid (on the rare occasion clients are on the button) just to keep the paper work sorted

[King Herald]

So basically a receipt, I guess then? Okay, no worries, no need to change all my passwords etc

[Vocal Minority]

bob on

[CoolHands]

Why would MS be so stupid to create something that looks exactly like a scam virus email? They're idiots.

[King Herald]

CoolHands said:

Why would MS be so stupid to create something that looks exactly like a scam virus email? They're idiots.

Exactly. In the last week I have had several very similar mails from the tax office, and a couple from people I used to work with. A each with a clicky link to the information the mail pertains to.