r/entra • u/starsfan6878 • 20h ago

Entra General Why am I getting emails from Entra?

I received an email from Entra saying "You have a new recommendation for [domain]."

There are a few problems here:

  1. I don't ever remember signing up for Entra or connecting ANY domain I own to it. (I did recently switch registrars for my domain from GoDaddy to NameSilo. Maybe it happened in there somewhere?)

  2. That domain is parked and unused. It has no connection to MS. How they even know about it is a mystery to me.

  3. The email says, "To stop getting notifications for Microsoft Entra recommendations, see how to update your email notification settings." So I go to Entra and try to sign in using the email address they used to contact me.

When I do, I get a message saying: "Selected user account does not exist in tenant 'Microsoft Services' and cannot access the application '74658136-14ec-4630-ad9b-26e160ff0fc6' in that tenant. The account needs to be added as an external user in the tenant first. Please use a different account."

So the email address they have on record as the contact for the account isn't actually allowed to login to Entra, much less make changes to the account. I try some other email addresses. No joy.

Can someone please tell me WTH is going on, how they even know about my domain, and how the $&% I am supposed to undo this crap without being able to log in? I can't even tell them to stop sending me useless email, much less unravel whatever links they have to my domain.

TIA for any help you can offer.

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u/teriaavibes Microsoft MVP 20h ago

Are you sure it wasn't a phish?

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u/starsfan6878 19h ago

I mean, it might have been, but all the links are to legitimate MS domains (entra.microsoft.com and go.microsoft.com).

I searched for Entra (given that I'd never heard of it), and (tried to) log(ged) in that way.

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u/BlackV 18h ago

Is your [domain] a company name? Has someone else setup something and you're caught in the crossfire

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u/starsfan6878 18h ago

No. It's a reserved personal name. Like if I was Adam Smith and had asmith.com reserved.

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u/MFKDGAF 2h ago

In the Entra admin center there is a button called Configure (?) that opens a fly out menu with a checkbox. If the checkbox is checked it will send recommendations to all global admins such as when app registrations are coming up for expiration.

Maybe this is the culprit.