Why do I continue to get so much spam in my hotmail account?

Anonymous
2023-03-31T18:52:00+00:00

Does MS get paid for delivering junk email? I get hardly any spam (like almost 0 per week) in my Gmail account, but in my Hotmail account, which is as old as my Gmail account (like 25 years), I have at least 50-100 a day, many of which come directly into my Inbox. The junk filter is just a joke as it filters wanted email and does nothing for spam. Is there any solution for this other than to not using hotmail?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-31T19:30:34+00:00

    Hello! My name is Mustafa, I will be assisting you today

    Note: This is a user-to-user support forum and I am a fellow user who doesn't work for Microsoft.

    The best way to deal with spam emails in Outlook for the web is to create rules to remove unwanted emails or block all unknown senders. You can learn how to do it in this article:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bloc...

    It will take a few minutes to set up multiple rules or to block all unknown senders.

    Please let me know if this doesn't work or if you need further assistance.

    Warm Regards,

    Mustafa

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-31T19:58:59+00:00

    Hi Mustafa,

    No offense, but do you believe I've had Hotmail for 25 years and never done that?

    1. I have, it has literally little to no effect on spam
    2. Why is spam allowed in by default - again I point to Gmail where I never have this issue.
    3. Even for email that I've blacklisted (or whitelisted), it has seemingly very little effect

    thanks,

    Dan

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-31T20:02:07+00:00

    Hello, I see,

    I know that there have been a lot of issues with spam protection. If you have tried these and it didn't have any effect then I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. Let's ask other advisors and fellow Microsoft users for other suggestions that might help.

    They would be able to respond to this thread and share their input.

    Your patience will be highly appreciated.

    Regards,

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T14:09:45+00:00

    Hi,

    I know this thread is from March 2023, and it's now November 2023, but I have the same issue as danbo, and it's worse than ever.

    1)

    Whatever build-in tool you try to use, it has absolutely no effect. None whatsoever.

    No matter which words, domains or senders you block, it has no effect.

    2.

    The problem has increased drastically on Live mail. At the same time, it's a complete non-issue on Gmail.

    The way I read this is:

    A) Something can be done.

    B) Microsoft is not doing it (Or are failing miserably).

    As much as I prefer Microsoft over Google, I'm at a point where I'm thinking about dropping my Live mail altogether. I spend so much time reporting and deleting phishing/spam-mail it's almost all I do with my Live mail.
    When I’m at my laptop and using the Outlook client, it’s even more annoying, since it’s my understanding blocking mails is a local client thing, not a server thing.

    With the hope that someone at Microsoft reads this, why are Microsoft not addressing this issue? Why can Google make it work on Gmail, when Microsoft can’t get it to work on Live mail?

    Thanks!

    Michael

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-26T01:29:58+00:00

    Every thing I read to help me with the over abundance of spam is for outlook page. Mine is hotmail and never has the same set up that is described by all the advice on the net. And like Dan, I too have tried everything using rules advice and it doesn't work. There has to be better than this!

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