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
    2024-10-19T10:02:00+00:00

    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

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-18T07:10:04+00:00

    I want to BLOCK incoming scam emails without an email address

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  3. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2023-02-02T22:13:54+00:00

    Genius solution! works great.

    It is just insane that hotmail/live/outlook does not have SPF, DKIM or DMAC active.

    the reason why these emails are delivered in the inbox is because these have a 'list-unsubscribe' filled in in the header (which actually is pointing to a malicious website) and that bypasses the SPAM mark as you are marking them.

    Good to know it works for you. Wait... I check hotmail.com SPF record, it's there. Haven't had time to check their DKIM and DMARC records but I'm sure they're there.

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-21T01:22:13+00:00

    Wow! Thank you! I did see your comment but I was typing in the wrong thing for the last box. It was just the "@" sign by itself. The spam started going directly to the delete folder! Thanks a lot! I wouldn't have ever come up with it on my own.

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