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
    2020-01-18T16:07:34+00:00

    Same thing started happening to me yesterday. And now today my inbox is full of spam. I get hundreds of spam items every day, which is terrible to begin with, but they all went into junk. If this migration into my inbox continues I'll have to open another email account which will be a MAJOR headache.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-18T12:59:44+00:00

    I saw another person this morning with the same complaint. I'll pass the info along to my support contacts - it sounds like the junk mail filter has failed.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-18T12:56:45+00:00

    I am getting slammed now with spam in my inbox!  Ive made no setting changes . Yes some is going into junk but hardly everything . Very frustrating . Feels like an invasion .

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-18T04:56:19+00:00

    I'm not sure I'd call it isolated because that implies that its rare.... but it does seem the filters fail overnight (at least in the Eastern Time zone) every few weeks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-18T01:44:09+00:00

    Hi Diane!  Thanks so much for answering so quickly.  I found Junk Mail listed under Layouts and I've already clicked the filters - just all of a sudden the filters stopped working, i.e. Russian and porn landed in my inbox.  I dont think I've ever had that happen in all the years I've used Outlook.com

    Not sure what happened....hope this was an isolated event.

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