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
    2020-01-20T02:00:08+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T01:56:39+00:00

    DOES NOT WORK for ME...  either TTCl or vertical-aff.com or any of 100 blocked domains or blocked words nothing matter, outlook mail and platform was compromised under the attack and the only answer is gmail

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T01:46:23+00:00

    Same problem with my account.  Started last night, all from vertical-aff.com

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T01:41:42+00:00

    This doesn't seem to work anymore.  I tried the block setting but still getting tons of junk email even though I already block them.  Hope there will be a fix soon.  Thank you.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T01:34:24+00:00

    fujirox, please look at my post above yours, if you create a rule it will block those spam emails. if it works for you like its working for me, upvote my answer please so other people can be fixed.

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