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On really sketchy websites, you may just be purchasing a completely fake key or an already-known key that was used to pirate Windows on multiple systems that has been blocked by Microsoft. Other keys may be вЂњvolume licenseвЂќ keys, which are not supposed to be resold individually. Some keys may be education keys intended for students but obtained fraudulently. When the credit cards are reported as stolen and the chargebacks occur, Microsoft deactivates the keys, and those Windows installations are no longer activated-but the criminal gets away with the money people paid for them. A criminal acquires some credit card numbers, purchases a bunch of Windows keys online, and sells them through third-party websites at a cut rate. Other keys could have been purchased with stolen credit card numbers. For example, Windows keys were once much cheaper in China. They may be legitimate, but they were sold for cheaper in other countries. These are referred to as вЂњgray marketвЂќ keys. Some of these keys just come from other countries where Windows licenses are cheaper.

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That lack of action is in stark contrast to the stern words and platitudes from the companies.The websites selling cheap Windows 10 and Windows 7 keys arenвЂ™t getting legitimate retail keys straight from Microsoft. Microsoft doesnвЂ™t seem to be at all proactive in finding these bogus offers and either forcing the site to stop or pursuing the sellers. When specific scams are brought to the attention of the web site or Microsoft, the sale is usually deleted. After all they make money out of the sales and the extra web traffic generated. We understand why the likes of Ebay and Amazon turn a blind eye to these offers. Yet the scams keep appearing and last for weeks before, maybe, being shut down. Just the opposite, itвЂ™s hard to find legitimate offers among all the scams! It doesnвЂ™t take much to find these bogus offerings on Ebay. Why is it happening?ДЇor all the talk from Ebay, Amazon and Microsoft there doesnвЂ™t seem to be a lot of effort to stop these obviously illegal sales. We all pay via higher credit card fees and interest. For such small amounts, the banks just write off the amount and donвЂ™t follow up with the merchant. Most likely the same person or group is operating many different merchant accounts at the same time.Д¬redit card chargebacks wonвЂ™t cost the merchant anything. The seller can shut down their Ebay account and restart under another name. If people complain, theyвЂ™ll probably ignore them. The Ebay merchant is hoping to sell as many of these вЂOffice 365 licencesвЂ™ as possible before being shut down. Microsoft could also pursue people who bought this stolen product, though thatвЂ™s unlikely. Once detected, Microsoft can and probably will disable use of Office. It seems they are selling an organization or academic licence which is tied to a specific user/email address.ДЄnyway you look at it, whatвЂ™s being sold is illegal and a breach of the terms under which the Office 365 licence was issued. Microsoft licences are either business or academic, not both.

WeвЂ™re not sure what they mean by a вЂbusiness licence вЂ¦ part of an academic licenceвЂ™.

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It says the license is вЂlegitimateвЂ™ then explains how they a misusing an Office licence. There are workarounds for some of that, for example adding your own OneDrive account. That special account is shared with others, allowing them to see your Recent Documents list, OneDrive files and anything else saved by Office in a Microsoft Account. ThatвЂ™s not just for installation but also ongoing use of Office software.

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TheyвЂ™ll give you another email address and password to login. You wonвЂ™t be able to use your own email to login to your Microsoft account. This is some of the details with our warning marks. Selling for less than US$4.ДЄside from the stupidly low price and the mix of вЂ365вЂ™ and вЂ2016вЂ™, the вЂfine printвЂ™ gives the game away.

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Microsoft Office 365 2016 Pro Lifetime Subscription 5 Devices 5TB WINDOWS MAC Instant delivery! NEW subscription 24/7 support. LetвЂ™s dig into the details of one typical bogus Office 365 offer to see what theyвЂ™re up to. ThereвЂ™s no such thing as a вЂlifetimeвЂ™ Office 365 product key. Office 365 Home or Personal can be extended for up to five years by buying multiple yearly plans and adding them to your account. They are priced just under the regular street price to seem like a good, legitimate offer.ДЄll Office 365 plans are time-limited, usually for a year. Some deals are obviously scams, like this one for just US$3 but others are more plausible. Lifetime Office 365 for under $3 вЂ¦ yeah right WeвЂ™ve seen many cheap Office 365 Home, Personal, University and other plans sold as вЂlifetimeвЂ™, вЂperpetualвЂ™ or вЂnever-endingвЂ™.