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
    2020-01-21T00:21:09+00:00

    LUCKY YOU!!  =  >

    still a downpour or nonsense over here.

    this too shall pass??

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T20:43:20+00:00

    I am cautiously optimistic but also observed that things are getting back to normal over the last few hours. Other than some very old emails from storage folders showing up in either Junk or my Inbox. The flood of spam to Junk has slowed, and spam to Inbox has stopped.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T20:02:47+00:00

    same here... it seems to have ceased.....we shall see!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T17:13:09+00:00

    This has happened to me. Exact same thing. HELP MICROSOFT!!! ARE YOU LISTENING!! 1.25K are viewing/having this issue. HELLO????????????

    ive had Hotmail for 20 years. Then Outlook. 25 junk emails per day. Then starting in NOV2019 OMG 200-300 per day. As of 18JAN2020 that is all now coming to my INBOX. HELLO MS are you listening? MY email is now irrelevant.

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  5. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,526 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-01-20T14:41:20+00:00

    I hate to say this, but as of this am it seems to be working. Had 65 junk in my inbox this am. But so far so good today. We should be able to block domains instead of addresses. Especially @vertical-aff.com.  

    Open Outlook.com's settings: Settings (gear icon) > View all Outlook settings >  Junk Email and add that domain to the blocked list.

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