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Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account
Hey all, I have a very stupid confession, back when DOGE was first introduced, I didn't think much of it and followed a bunch of tutorials on how to mine it on free (and much less limited) Azure account. I used up all of the credits and didn't think much of it... Now, I am infra engineer with about 5 years of experience, I have multiple Azure certs, I use it everyday at work but I still cannot get MSFT to unlock my personal account or allow me to create a new one, citing fraud. At the beginning of my career I even got to be a part of the terrible Azure technical customer service and internal requests to lift it off of me didn't help. Please advice is there any way to get to be a legitimate user of service again. Thank you.
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think about how they determine it is you that opens the account. theres only so much info you need to provide them, so it will be in there. i doubt they would give back your old account. perhaps they will block your cards/bank acct/email from making new accounts. most providers of servers/compute have strict rules against things like mining on their infra, and they dont take it lightly or unban. if it was against their TOS they will not do it. they cant stop you making a new account if they do not know it is you though. i can imagine if you have a different email and payment source its legitimate enough to allow u.
I actually forgot DOGE was a cryptocurrency and was really confused for a moment. I'm not sure but I wish you the best, OP.
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