Spam emails with no sender address

Just 1 character

@

I have looked through the majority of the replies to on this thread and none seem to apply to my situation. The inclusion of a @ as an exception will not work for me as the latest email I have received has this as the From address:

From: "Akusoli – Relieve Foot Pain with Every Step", "è" <𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻-𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘀@𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻.co.uk>

You will see that it contains a @. Also, it will not accept a ð, for example, in the rules as it tells me that these types of character are not accepted in a From address! The emails continue to arrive.

Michael - Cheltenham UK

Same issue here with .......@{...com

@ odd character,

Here is something new to try. Short Read skip to 'What I Did'

My basic use of Rules was to have Rules that automatically deleted phishing, spam, malware type, - pure trash emails. I used Rules for quite a while trying to find what works and had some success against senders with specific names or domains, blank sender or from address (although this is false as there is always a sender or from address - this no sender address showing is an Outlook/Exchange failure - but there is a sender address if you look at the email with an editor like Note or Word Pad), and those that are being labeled as sent by me to me (this one is also an incredible Outlook failure and not to confused with: reply all, or copy me, or BCC, or a new email created by you where the to: is your email address).

Using Rules was becoming laborious, always creating a new rule, following updates on this thread, or adding to a Rule, for example:

Of course, this Rule never works automatically as indicated in the Rule and must be run manually once you're in the Junk folder. Prime example of Rule failure.

In desperation, I started trying this different approach and my Outlook mail 'Junk Folder' is basically back to normal. No phishing, no spam, no sent from me, and no missing sender address. Yes, I still get mail placed in the Junk folder but it is mail I expect to be in Junk because I don't have that sender or domain as a safe sender. I can't explain what is happening behind the scenes but it is working so far.

Caveat - my environment is Windows 11, Microsoft 365, (both with latest updates) and I am using Classic Outlook - not the 'new' Outlook. Under Junk Email Options - Safe Senders: - 'Automatically add people I email . . .' (is NOT *checked) - Also 'trust email from my Contacts' (*is Checked).

Because of my Junk Email Options selections all the phish, spam, no sender address, me as the sender to me, have been placed in the Junk email folder. Outlook does a fairly good job of this as none of the trash email makes it to my Inbox. The 'Sender as me to me' coming from outside the Outlook or Exchange domain is automatically placed in Junk. But I also have legitimate marketing, advertisements, tech updates, news updates, etc., that are in my Junk folder - which is great - this is how Outlook used to always work and allows my Inbox to be focused on the more important emails.

Also recently in a quite public thrashing by agencies of the US and Europe, Microsoft was accused of NOT placing the proper emphasis/awareness on security allowing unprecedented hacks of Azure domains, exposing all sorts of PII. And MS was forced to respond that a new direction is to make security a top priority. Perhaps what I am experiencing here (and all of Outlook) is finally the attention to the many complaints about these Outlook/Exchange security issues/failures and perhaps nothing to do with what I did.

And finally, in all fairness to Microsoft, no service provider can know immediately that out of the hundreds of new domains that pop-up overnight or daily, which ones are spamming or phishing or malware intrusive. But there does seem to be a growing set of email providers that do a much better job of Junk/trash email automatic deletion or blocking.

What I Did: In the Junk folder, I select a 'trash' mail, whether spam, phishing, me to me (outside domain), BS (malware type), and right click on the email and in the pop-up window select 'Report Phishing'. Then a pop-up window will show with some explanation text and offer you the choice to 'Ok' or 'Cancel'. Of course I select Ok. Once I started doing this my Junk trash email started to disappear. After about a week my Junk folder was back to normal. And I've not run Rules manually.

This so far, seems to be working quite nicely for me and I hope you get the same results.

Thanks for the reply. I have tried your suggestion over the last few days. There are still some getting through but I will persevere and see what happens.