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
    2023-02-02T10:45:41+00:00

    This is a great tip! I really hope it works, for I'm also receiving several e-mails a day without sender. At least I found it interesting to see that some of them do have the same sender, but are about different topics.

    Another interesting part about these e-mails -besides having no sender-, is that they all have the unsubscribe option at the bottom, but that leads to a not working page (and I'm a bit anxious as well that clicking that link is not recommendable and leads to more spam).

    I really hope Microsoft will continue working on this before it makes victims...

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-31T19:47:37+00:00

    Same thing just started happening to me. have a hotmail account through microsoft. If try to create a rule to block any of them it says "option not available, object not found" I am getting more and more every day. You cannot block them either beccuase no @domain, etc exists when it is sent to your inbox.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-30T18:08:25+00:00

    Just come across this thread. I'm getting loads of spam emails with no sender address too. Utterly pathetic by Microsoft. Trying to force people to go premium to stop unwanted spam ads in the phone app (I already have a lifetime use of MS Word so there's no way I'm paying for a 365 subscription for what is basically the same thing), and then the do naff all about such easy to identify spam emails. Time to get rid of my outlook account and use only Gmail.

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-25T01:16:49+00:00

    I found that field as

    "

    From: Attractive Russian Women, Attractive Russian Women <vodafone [replace as email address will be blocked here] email.vodafone.com.au>

    "

    It's either Vodafone or MS has been hacked.

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