Continuous spam emails from the same address: 73 Botley Road, PA20 7FZ, MIDPARK

Anonymous
2023-07-06T13:40:09+00:00

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Microsoft,

please take action in blocking in some way the continous spam emails from: 73 Botley Road, PA20 7FZ, MIDPARK

I have done everthing: unsubscribe from these emails, block, report as phising, set rules, ... but nothing works. They keep on comming in.

I read that a lot of people are encountering this issue, all comming from this same address: 73 Botley Road, PA20 7FZ, MIDPARK

Please take action here !

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Anonymous
2023-07-06T13:59:26+00:00

Maybe you didn't know, but clicking Unsubscribe in a message that isn't legit is just going to open you up to more spam.

Also, there's absolutely nothing you can do to prevent an email from arriving in your mailbox.

If the emails are going to your Junk Email folder then the system is working.

No one from Microsoft is going to see this and do anything about it. Just you moving the spams into the Junk Email folder reports it to the backend servers.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-25T09:16:41+00:00

    I'd just like to add I've been receiving similar spam emails for about six months now.

    Sometimes it's almost 1,000 a week.

    I'm fairly certain what's happening is our email addresses are somehow part of a leak and found their way onto a 'paste' and sold on the dark web.

    Now, granted, Microsoft can't do anything to block these, but they usually always arrive without a return address, so you can't easily block the domain. Only going into headers can you sift through and get a rough idea where they're from.

    I've used email for 25 years. I've never encountered this level of spam in all of that time. I think people's concerns are legitimate. Just continue to report these as phishing (not junk - these are mostly crafted to get you to enter personal details, so they're really phishing) and don't click anywhere at all on them.

    'Unsubscribing' is just a ruse to get you to click - and who knows what script that might lead you to.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-30T08:07:53+00:00

    One other thing, why can't Rule be set up on your Junk folder? You could set a rule up that all 'blocked' emails are automatically deleted.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-13T16:38:16+00:00

    It is a legit answer. Just because it's not what you wanted to hear doesn't make it invalid. It's completely true and legit advice for managing spam from anyone.

    At least I provided a solution, what have you provided?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-13T16:34:27+00:00

    No that is a very helpful answer.
    You could just as well, or maybe better not have answered.

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