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. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2023-09-05T22:04:46+00:00

    I can't find that menu (that lets me specify "blank sender") in Outlook 365, nor is it an option in "manage rules". Where did you find it?

    Use a web browser to sign in to your mailbox. The address is either outlook.live.com (for free hotmail/outlook users) or outlook.office.com (for school/business or 365 hosted users).

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

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-06T19:13:46+00:00

    That's a lot of work. I'm working on a macro that auto-deletes anything with an empty address, as well as ones with some choice words in the subject. My problem with it, at the moment, is that it won't run against things ALREADY in the inbox. Hope to get it done soon and can post it. Of course, macros are dangerous, if you don.t know the author or how to install them.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-09-07T00:15:00+00:00

    there is no such menu item. A script can test for it or use the trick of using the "@" EXCEPTION will do it. The logic is not straight forward, but it DOES work.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-21T09:13:34+00:00

    I'm not sure if it helps, but I"ve been noticing almost all of these "no adress" senders actually use the adress : <email AT enews.electrabel.com>

    You can make two rules to rule them out :

    Create a rule with :

    Add condition : From > email AT enews.electrabel.com
    Add action : Delete
    (or, mark as spam)

    Create a rule with :

    Add condition : All messages

    Add action : Delete (or mark as spam)

    Add exception : If mail adress holds an > @

    These two rules should help.

    Feel free to use the 3 dots on the top right corner of the mail (make sure you never click anything in the mail itself),
    and select "Show message as source", there you will be looking for :

    Date : 'the date of sending'To : 'You'

    From : .... (Here you will find the email used)You can also find the IP¨of the sender and trace it back

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