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

Anonymous
2020-01-17T18:25:09+00:00

Just started getting Russian women and male body part emails in my inbox.  I used to have exclusive setting checked.  Where in the heck did that go???  I see that in 2013 lots of people had issues with unwanted spam in their inboxes.  They were told to set exclusive settting.  I really wish Microsoft would quit pushing me to go to gmail!

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

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T10:36:23+00:00

    noticing for about 4 or 5 days, spam coming into my inbox that has this character as part of the email address: ��   some of that is successfully being put into the spam folder, but not all - 50/60 emails a day that are somehow getting thru.  seems weird though that the filter sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T06:09:07+00:00

    May have a solution though not sure if it covers all instances. Have set up a rule as follows which has been working for me in the past hour.

    1. Create a Rule named Red Balloon
    2. Add condition - Message header includes ... cut and paste red balloon icon into the value box. (you can copy paste the red balloon icon from the email address of the sender e.g. <#####.red balloon icon here@######.com)
    3. Add Action - Move to - Junk Email

    Edited rule to include a mountain icon ... guess will need to amend as more special characters are coming in via email addresses.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T05:45:46+00:00

    Having the same problem which states today. I had my settings set to "exclusive" and it has worked for years. Then today both my wife and I started getting so these SPAM messages in our inbox. I made the suggested change you mentioned and it is still not working. Please help

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T04:58:07+00:00

    My husband and I experienced the same thing.  Ni changes to our settings and it happened over night.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T04:37:14+00:00

    I can now confirm that Microsoft is supposedly aware of the issue (yet to publicly acknowledge on social media) based on the reply to my submission via the "Help" procedure I previously mentioned which reflects the cookie-cutter response that was given to the IA as well: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail-ofolders/junk-email-going-to-inbox/da8e531e-d9c8-4d16-a45b-ef53e6bf8095

    I provided my correspondent with the requested information along with my question about their public acknowledgement.

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