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

this is the second time I've had this problem after 15 years using outlook. I recently read Microsoft was doing this to encourage users to pay for an upgrade to their outlook account and they fix the junk problem with the upgrade.

Try this: click all the spam in your inbox (in my case all the spam subject started with "Re:....text"). click "Report Phishing or Report Junk". After a few days the junk didn't appear in my inbox.

This is getting beyond ridiculous! Microsoft, fix it or lose customers!! NOW!!!!! I’ve gotten 20 in the past couple of days!

It definitely has to do with 365. If you aren’t paying for it, you get more spam emails. How do I know? I let my 365 subscription expire and sure enough, the spam emails started!

Quit gouging your customers for money, you greedy company!!!!

NO ONE thinks they're entitled to a spam free email account. It appears you misunderstand why many of us are/were here to report an UNUSUAL issue. That's why this area exists, TO REPORT. I'm glad I wasn't alone for one thing. It certainly was UNUSUAL to receive 50+ spam in the inbox daily for many weeks. They belonged in another folder. It's not difficult to understand that it's a legitimate problem. Although it's not difficult to delete what doesn't belong, it never belonged there to begin with! Plus, when you're deleting so many daily, it takes concentration and time to ensure that you didn't delete the important ones that belong. Doing that daily for weeks is not the end of the world, but hello...it became very taxing/annoying/concerning. There's a reason why the junk mail folder exists. I was constantly picking up my phone to see what emails I was receiving...90% was junk. After a while, I didn't want to bother, but that wasn't ideal, either. Obviously a glitch and I'm thankful my issue was finally resolved.

Sounds like the tone of another reply from MS this week, that one stated everyone's email have this problem so get over it.

That to is also total BS! Have 4 different email carriers and ONLY my Hotmail gets filled with junk daily!

Hello Dwilly90! I'm sorry you're having this issue, the only way you can stop this is to follow the steps provided above yo block all spam messages.

Please note that spammers buy email addresses from special providers in bulk to add them to their mailing lists. If you've noted a sudden increase in the number of spam emails landing in your account, there's a high chance that your address was part of a list recently sold to one or more scammers.

Please always keep your email address private.

Thanks

Nelson...