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
    2020-01-20T12:39:13+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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  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. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T13:06:33+00:00

    Yes it was named "Spam Box"....I probably should not have deleted it.  I am blocking those e-mails with my chrome computer and it appears to be working on some of the addresses.  I do not seem to be getting as many so fingers crossed they will cease.  If not, I will go back to gmail.

    Thanks for your reply.

    Yorkshirerose

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T13:35:35+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.

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