I cannot see your support ticket, so I don’t know your original date, unfortunately. Mine goes back to September 19, 2023. From what I have seen in the comments thread, I’m just a baby around here.
The only thing I have learned from my experience here is that, for me, Microsoft Rewards has given me NO WAY AT ALL to prove who I am, so I can claim Gift Cards with my fairly earned efforts each day for what has been the past 11-13 years. Of course, they allow me to easily verify myself to join the sweepstakes and donate to Tax-Exempt organizations, which I have been doing to the tune of 52,000 points, which I consciously donated to (to avoid **** like this, by being straight up and not greedy).
Then I see in this thread that there are others who have been straight up accused of deceit.
I don’t f’ing get it. For me, all they need to do is create an alternative sign-in option other than a phone number, which does not work (even though I have had this same legitimate phone number since 2006). This customer service department even told me I should just use somebody else who I know’s phone number (sic).
Umm…that defeats the entire verification process. NOW THAT IS MESSED UP!
I can’t believe how massively stupid the Customer Service and Security leadership is at Microtheft.
THEY SO OBVIOUSLY COULD FIX THIS, but they don’t care, or don’t have leadership to tell this department to demand a fix for their users ASAP.