Spam emails with no sender address

Anonymous
2022-08-17T21:51:44+00:00

I use a hotmail email address and I've been getting multiple spam emails a day and they don't have sender addresses. If I try to reply to them, Outlook would tell me the recipient cannot be empty. I also cannot block them since there's no sender addresses to block.

This is getting extremely irritating.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-31T21:29:56+00:00

    Most email programs have a method to view the header in plaintext. In Outook, you can go to File >> Properties and look at the content of the internet header. LOTS of good info for making rules. Select it all, save it in a plaintext editor like Notepad then search for these clues:

    spf=

    mailfrom= (if it says dkim=none, then you need to check for empty senders (tricky) see lots of how-to on that one.)

    from:

    subject:

    Please do not copy and paste the mail. It shows up as garbage characters (system trying to find characters matching bytes of code).

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-23T14:44:41+00:00

    They don't give a damn. There are 133 of us with the same problem looking for solutions and wasting hours. No doubt hundreds of thousands of others, but who say nothing. And we stay. We're not leaving outlook. Only a hundred to complain. Why would Microsoft have anything to do with us? I got to level 2 of support (it took me 3 weeks). It's been a year and my spam filter ("only contacts") is still impossible to activate. They told me they would get back to me, but nothing. They don't really give a ****. That's all.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-05T22:45:05+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-06T20:59:06+00:00

    Brilliant

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-28T17:59:46+00:00

    I have fixed this by performing the below steps:

    1. Select More actions button (...) at the top of the message window and select View message source.
    2. Scroll down in the Message source until you find the From: field.
    3. Highlight the email address enclosed within < > and right-click to Copy.
    4. Use this email address to block the sender.

    are you sure this will block the sender? I did the same thing, but still got the junk email from that hidden sender

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