An organization still has my email address listed as their billing contact; how to I remove myself?

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An organization still has my email address listed as their billing contact; how to I remove myself?

Gavin Northey 20

Hello,

An organization with a Business 365 account still has me listed as one of their billing contacts. I am no longer affiliated with this organization and do not have a log in account to access the M365 Admin Center. How can I remove myself so that I no longer receive invoices? No one at the organization is responsive to my emails or will remove me from their account.

Thank you.

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Vivian-HT 17,900 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Dear @Gavin Northey,

I understand how frustrating it can be to continue receiving billing emails from an organization you’re no longer affiliated with, especially when you no longer have access to their Microsoft 365 environment.

As a forum moderator, I truly apologize that I do not have the ability to remove your email address from another organization’s billing contact list.

In this situation, billing contact details and invoice notification recipients are managed internally within the organization’s Microsoft 365 tenant. Only Global Administrator or Billing Administrator can update or remove email addresses from the billing notification list.

As an alternative way to proceed, you can create a free Microsoft 365 trial tenant to gain access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and then raise a support ticket with Microsoft from there. This allows you to engage Microsoft support as an authenticated business user, which can help expedite assistance.

You can sign up for a new Microsoft 365 Business trial using this link: Compare All Microsoft 365 Plans. You will need to use a different, personal email address to register.
Once you have the trial tenant set up, you can go to the Admin Center and use the Help & Support option to open a billing-related case. For reference: Get support for Microsoft 365 for business
In your request, clearly explain that your email address is still configured as a billing contact on another organization’s tenant without your consent, and that you no longer have any affiliation or access.

Important: Please remember to cancel the trial subscription after your original account issue is resolved to avoid any future charges.

This type of request can be treated as a billing or data/privacy concern, and the support team can review and escalate it appropriately on your behalf.

In the meantime, if the emails are disruptive, you may consider setting up an email rule to move or filter these invoice notifications until the issue is resolved. For more information, please follow: Manage email messages by using rules in Outlook

Note: Please understand that as a forum moderator, my role is to provide general guidance and troubleshooting support. I don’t have access to internal systems or backend tools, and I appreciate your understanding of these limits.

I hope the information shared helps point you in the right direction. Thank you for your patience and understanding. I'm looking forward for your reply.

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Gavin Northey 20 Reputation points

2026-05-28T02:27:53.3366667+00:00

Thanks. I have a Microsoft 365 business account and have used the admin center to submit a ticket. Hopefully someone can assist me. Since I have my own account, I cannot block the emails since I need to receive my own billing and invoice related emails.
Vivian-HT 17,900 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-28T02:33:09.4366667+00:00

Dear @Gavin Northey,

Thank you for your update. Since you can access to the admin center, please try submitting a ticket to the billing team. They will reach out to you as soon as possible to support you.

If you have any questions or difficulties, please feel free to reach out. I'm happy to assist further.

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Gavin Northey 20 Reputation points

2026-05-28T02:27:53.3366667+00:00

Thanks. I have a Microsoft 365 business account and have used the admin center to submit a ticket. Hopefully someone can assist me. Since I have my own account, I cannot block the emails since I need to receive my own billing and invoice related emails.
Vivian-HT 17,900 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-05-28T02:33:09.4366667+00:00

Dear @Gavin Northey,

Thank you for your update. Since you can access to the admin center, please try submitting a ticket to the billing team. They will reach out to you as soon as possible to support you.

If you have any questions or difficulties, please feel free to reach out. I'm happy to assist further.

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Vincent Choy 11,265 Volunteer Moderator

Your situation is tricky.

The Microsoft365 tenant can only be accessed by the appointed global administrators of the organization. So the correct process is to get the specific organization to replace you in their system.

Writing direct to Microsoft will be tricky for a few reasons -

Microsoft has no contract with you. Its contract is with the subscribing organization.
To Microsoft, you might be a compromised third party asking them to delete an entry in their organization
Microsoft may facilitate you by contacting the admin of the organization, but this is only a may.

If the organization no longer has a admin (perhaps you were the admin or the admin has left), then the first step for the organization is to regain the admin via the process suggested by Vivian earlier.

Gavin Northey 20 Reputation points

2026-05-28T21:01:48.5966667+00:00

I understand, I was hoping since I can authenticate my email address (I use the same email address for my M365 business account) that they can use that to verify me and remove me from the other tenant.

If not, I just saw a delinquent invoice notice; perhaps this situation will just work itself out like in the movie Office Space. :)
Vincent Choy 11,265 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2026-06-03T06:04:00.4266667+00:00

Being able to authenticate your email account is likely insufficient. It can also mean that specific email account has been compromised, and the attacker is now asking Microsoft to remotely delete the account.

Imagine your company, the boss's email was taken over (because he was careless with his passwords), and the attacker who can authenticate the email asks Microsoft to unilaterally delete his account, how would you react as the administrator? Microsoft would not override the company admin.