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. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,526 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-01-20T12:54:40+00:00

    >> I just found a spam box and deleted  that. 

    Was it named Spam ? If its not called Junk Email or you are not using an Outlook.com mailbox, it's a different issue.  

    If it is an outlook.com address, the junk mail filters broke - we're waiting on a fix.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T12:40:15+00:00

    Hi, same thing happening to me.  I just found a spam box and deleted  that.  Not sure it will work.  I do not have outlook account through office.  It is awful!  Any idea how this happened? Have you fixed yours?  I have even tried blocking and that is not working.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I am thinking if getting a new email address.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T12:39:13+00:00

    It is now 7:37 am EST on 01/20/20 and the last spam I got in my Inbox was at 2:05 am and the usual 50 to 100 spam are in my Junk email. Hopefully its fixed. Time will tell.

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  4. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,526 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-01-20T12:37:53+00:00

    Correct, it is failure on the Microsoft side. We're just waiting for it to be fixed.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T12:25:59+00:00

    Exact same thing happened to me. Started a few days ago. Same spam mails mentioned above.  Most from the same sender. Doesnt stop even when I put them on block so think the issue is on MS end with a failure in spam filters. If its not resolved will have to shut down my MS account. :-(

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