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
    2020-01-20T13:46:07+00:00

    All,

    Did anyone know to stop the following junk ?! or is there anyway in hotmail to block 'wild carded' domain block like '*xyz.com' ?

    From: Lending For Bad Credit <TTCl.��@vertical-aff.com> on behalf of Lending For Bad Credit <tpb2p0qa.��@vertical-aff.com>

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T14:17:40+00:00

    I wanted to add my voice to this issue.

    Additionally, today I saw items from my storage folders, suddenly appear in my Junk email.

    Something is badly broken with the filtering on the service side, MS. Please fix ASAP.

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  3. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,526 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-01-20T14:40:16+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

    If a 3rd party service created the spam folder and is still using it, it should recreate it. 

    Androids - Samsung specifically I believe - create a spambox folder - without the space, at least in older versions. 

    https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/moves-email-junk-folder/

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-20T17:07:53+00:00

    I think the filters are working again too. I woke up expecting to see a ton of spam in my inbox but it was clear of spam and my junk folder now full of spam.  We’ll see if this continues as the day goes.

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