Should I throw the letter away or delete the email? You should call Microsoft to confirm before handing any money or audit results over. There is often a phone number you can call to verify with Microsoft that the person named on the letter is authentic and not a scam. This has to be checked of course, but usually you will find it is legitimate and the email does come from Microsoft, or an affiliated company who was hired to do the audit. We offer low flat rate fees to take the pain out of the process.ĪSSURANCES I LIKE TO GET FROM MICROSOFT BEFORE ALLOWING A SAM AUDIT TO PROCEED Is this a scam? This blog will help you identify some of the potential legal issues and seeking the advice of a software compliance lawyer may be money well spent. Some clients assume they can just handle this themselves or use independent software consultants to help out, but we would recommend companies act cautiously and prudently when engaging one of the world's largest software companies in responding to one of these audits and the request to complete a deployment summary. The audit may be sold as a “benefit” to your company, but could be a way to make your company nervous, get you to admit to software piracy, and to force you to upgrade and purchase more software from Microsoft resellers and vendors. We are informed, but cannot confirm, that some of these companies are located out of the country, for example in India, and that the Microsoft representatives or “partners” may receive a commission or percentage of any software you are forced to purchase once you complete the audit and deficiencies in licensing or shortages are identified. This email (or it might be a software audit letter) raises several questions, especially if there is an ongoing edit. When companies get this they might often ask “is this legitimate or is it a scam?” Sometimes this request comes directly from a Microsoft representative to the Client (for example by email which looks like a scam, but which uses a Microsoft domain name (example ). One of the things that can arise in the world of software audits is a request from Microsoft asking a company to submit to a voluntary “software licensing verification process.” Also known as a SAM audit (software asset management).
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