My Outlook inbox is suddenly getting a ton of spam and I don't know how to stop it

Anonymous
2022-10-25T16:57:23+00:00

Last week, my personal Outlook email started getting ~50 spam emails per day. I barely ever use this email address, so I am not sure how or why this began to happen. How can I stop all of this spam from getting to my inbox?

I have been flagging all of the emails as spam, but it doesn't seem to be stopping the influx of emails I am getting.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-06T17:28:09+00:00

    You think this is funny Microsoft?! 🤬🤬🤬🤬. Hopefully BOTH photos are in here! This is unprofessional, possibly illegal and right now, you can add price gouging! Fix the darn spam email issue!!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-02-05T04:27:01+00:00

    Best of Luck, after 6 months I finally got to speak to a microsoft help desk operator about this, and they basically stated that the emails are a result of a third party being given our email addresses from something we have signed up to or entered our email address in. I tried to look at the coding in the back of the email to track the source, but don't have the experience to do this. Oddly enough, the emails vary in content and where they appear to be from.

    I personally think microsoft aren't doing enough to protect our accounts given we are on paid subscriptions.

    And, Yes it would be awesome to know if more can be done.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-27T23:23:20+00:00

    Great, hope it works! So far so good here, will keep checking though to be sure.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-27T22:54:47+00:00

    awesome..thank you. i have done as u suggested and will keep my eye on the junk folder to make sure its not blocking addresses it shouldnt be

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