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
    2022-09-07T16:03:19+00:00

    Thank you for trying, but there is no option for creating a rule to disallow or move emails with no sender address.

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  2. Karl Timmermans 3,685 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-09-07T16:20:46+00:00

    Thank you for trying, but there is no option for creating a rule to disallow or move emails with no sender address.

    Nothing in my reply you are responding to had any reference to a rule for emails with no sender address - no such rule can be created.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-13T17:32:15+00:00

    I‘m getting this type of spam daily into my Inbox since a couple of weeks. In my opinion it’s a crude bug and security issue that Microsoft delivers emails without any sending party.

    No other serious email provider would accept messages without a valid sending email address. And to consider these messages as not to be spam biggest brain fuu for me.

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  4. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2022-09-13T18:19:09+00:00

    try this rule:

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-13T19:15:39+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.

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