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

I have spent the last hour going through junk/spam emails as I do most mornings now.

I go through each one and using the subject header, I go into "rules" and apply the "subject or body includes" and then the action to delete. No point adding the email as this changes every time. I know the subject heading changes slightly too in most cases. A dot here and so on. I also report every email to MS via the "select all" and report.

Now, I do know this is a complete waste of time as it does not work. The exact same subject headings are getting through, so now I add an action (before the delete action) to forward the message to Microsoft Support, I don't want to give the email on this site but it easy enough to get if you have been in contact with them and had a response..

I have no idea if this will work but I really want MS to go through the pain we are all going through with the ridiculous amount of junk emails we are getting...

Hello ! I'm Nelson and I would be glad to assist you today, I'm sorry that you are experiencing this issue.

To block someone in Outlook.com, select the messages or senders you want to block.
From the top toolbar, select Junk > Block (or Spam > Block).
Select OK. The messages you select will be deleted and all future messages will be blocked from your mailbox. Hope this helps

Nelson

I get 50 to 75 junk emails a day, yes every day. For months now this has been going on.

What you suggested above "to select the messages or senders you want to block.
From the top toolbar, select Junk > Block (or Spam > Block).
Select OK. The messages you select will be deleted and all future messages will be blocked from your mailbox".

I have been doing that for months now on every junk email and they keep coming back, the same emails I just clicked on block.

My block emails menu does not work at all. I also tried "Report phishing" and it does not work.

This should be sent to Microsoft Office 365 to let them know that my Outlook email app is defective.

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.

No, this doesn’t work. Most of these spam emails are aliases I.e. pretending to come from me.

I’m using O365 premium edition (PAID subscription) and the Outlook App on my devices. The spam Just doesn’t go away 😡

I’ve been religiously reporting and marking all these spam emails every day but when you get 50+ per day it becomes tiresome. Surely, someone at MS is readying my message. DO Something FAST!!!!

After using this account for 20+ years might have to consider moving to Gmail as a last resort 😔

This is getting ridiculous. For a long time now, a lot of spam/scam emails end up in our inboxes as "clean", Like generic spam, fake password renewal scams, fake voicemails etc. I have no idea to M$ is not able to catch these emails that use microsoft name and logo in them, and not being sent from microsoft. Just mind boggling.
On top of this maddness, however, in past 6 months many good emails, even those I had recent conversations with, end up in spam. We miss important stuff and this hurts our business.

I am not going to waste any more of my time fiddling with every single email. It should just work, as it does with other service providers. I am, as a CEO, seriously considering dumping M$ products altogether as this is the last drop, on top of broken MS teams etc. Just really bad experience, and expensive at that.

All my messages ( over 7,000 emails) from my inbox, were put into my deleted folder. I click on the prompt to open and try to restore all at one time. Sadly, I am only able to restore one at a time. I tried to select all and restore, but not allowed.

Is there a method to select all 7,000 messages to move back to my inbox, instead of having to click on each one?

Your help is GREATLY appreciated!