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
    2020-01-20T06:09:07+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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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T07:13:14+00:00

    See below - pasted the icon from the message email address - not as ASCII.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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