What the heck happend to the EXCLUSIVE setting in Outlook - I'm getting Russian **** in my inbox!

I have been getting slammed with multiple email from @vertical-aff.com for the last 2 days. Most junk email used to go straight into my Junk Mail folder but these go directly into my inbox. I have a Hotmail (live.com) email account. I've tried blocking, sending to junk mail but nothing works. Hotmail rules will not allow me to block just the domain "@vertical-aff.com". The sender has a unique email address as well as a red balloon icon before the domain name in every email. I just checked and there are A LOT of other users with this exact same problem posting in the last 2 days (January 19-20, 2020). Microsoft, PLEASE fix this issue so that these emails can be blocked permanently. We do not have time to sort through dozens of spam emails on an hourly and daily basis. Thank you.

There is definitely a spam filter problem that MICROSOFT is refusing to acknowledge.

I did nothing to my mailbox. As a matter of fact, I reached out and the first level support was either ignorant or lying that there is an issue. This problem is both on the APP and the website OWA version. I cleared all rules and all allowed entries. I removed the app altogether and reinstalled and the same problem. All the **** that normally hits my spam is going straight to my inbox. AND, the images open up in my inbox without my authorizing to see them. This is a major security issue.

I'm at a point that unless Microsoft acknowledges their problem, I'm just going to straight move everything to my gmail accounts. No problems with junk/spam/phishing in GMAIL. **** microsoft.

I just created a rule to have all my emails sent to a folder I created called Bad Emails. It will be easier to see if any emails I care about end up there and I can move them to my Inbox since I don't get a lot of emails anyway. I didn't want to simply move them to Junk mail because a lot of Junk is still going there and I can easily delete those in one click. I just want to see if this rule will work and hopefully Microsoft will become aware of this issue and send a fix. We shall see . . . .

Same issue for me.  Went through all the troubleshooting tips everyone else went through here and still get it into my inbox.  

One thing I WAS able to do to help is that I actually have the full Outlook client as part of my Office suite.  I logged into that and set the exclusive filter in there.  It's not sorting them on the server side, but it is on the client side, so as long as I leave that up on a computer, it will take the spam and filter it back to junk which will then sync back to the web/phone versions and remove them from my inbox. 

Still messes with notifications and if you turn that computer off or close the Outlook client it will start piling up in your inbox again, but it's allowing me to not have to go through them all in my Inbox.  Not a fix by any stretch of the imagination, but it is saving my sanity for the time being....

Sorry to burst your bubble TonyDiamond23, but you may only be getting emails from addresses containing "TTCI" and that's fine to create a rule to block that, but you even acknowledged the flaw of it being a temporary relief for you.

fujirox made no mention of the address(es) they were receiving and it may not be worth implementing the same kind of rule (which is already known to a lot of people I would guess).

I can say there are addresses that are using unicode characters like ðŸ—»ðŸ—»ðŸ—»ðŸ—<at>labeltogo.ddns.net or a whole lot of other addresses.

It would be more trouble going through the headers to find a unique but common thread among all the junk emails sneaking through and creating a rule for each unique one rather than just doing a mass delete of each junk until Microsoft finally gets things right.

Assuming Microsoft doesn't get things fixed right in the next 24 hours, I will all but guarantee you'll have new junk mail sneaking into your inbox because it didn't fall under the rule you created. You're likely fighting against automation. It's easy to create a script to create new usernames/domains/hostnames... You won't manually win against a bot. Especially an A.I. bot.