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

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

Hi Nelson. I am blocking these very many emails as you mention but these spammers have so many different accounts I am still receiving lots of these unwanted emails everyday.

As I have a Yahoo email account that I don't have to pay a subscription for, I am considering cancelling my Microsoft Office account.

For me, they all seem to have a common email..... Message source, scroll down a bit and you might see an email ending with "office365.com". I use that email and block along with the displayed domain name that is also listed in the message source. Went from 60-80 emails a day and now, some 4-5 days later, I'm down to max 3.... 😁 How the people managed to get office365.com email addresses is beyond me and I think with that MS email they get through the filters, unless you block each one.

NO. I have blocked senders, set up rules and that didn't work, then changed my setting to have all unknown emails go to junk, the filtered the junk emails and ID'd safe senders emails, yet some of the safe senders still nw get sent to junk. I am still getting 70 odd spam a day all from different email addresses. I even tried to see see if I can identify a common host IP address in the message source and it seems they are all different and they are possibly piggybacking emails via other email addresses just to make things more complicated.

Microsoft support, almost seem independent from microsoft and basically conceded there is nothing more I can do until Microsoft decide to do something about this.

So I have been watching these threads for the past month and all is see is the same issues and no resolutions, except for users changing email hosts. There are talk of people taking out class actions but I haven't come across any to jump on to.

Ironically this all started after I signed up for 365.

If anyone has anything better to advise please do so.

For me, they all seem to have a common email..... Message source, scroll down a bit and you might see an email ending with "office365.com". I use that email and block along with the displayed domain name that is also listed in the message source. Went from 60-80 emails a day and now, some 4-5 days later, I'm down to max 3.... 😁 How the people managed to get office365.com email addresses is beyond me and I think with that MS email they get through the filters, unless you block each one.

why cant we get a real answer? block them one at a time?? I got 4700 in one day!!!

NO. I have blocked senders, set up rules and that didn't work, then changed my setting to have all unknown emails go to junk, the filtered the junk emails and ID'd safe senders emails, yet some of the safe senders still nw get sent to junk. I am still getting 70 odd spam a day all from different email addresses. I even tried to see see if I can identify a common host IP address in the message source and it seems they are all different and they are possibly piggybacking emails via other email addresses just to make things more complicated.

Microsoft support, almost seem independent from microsoft and basically conceded there is nothing more I can do until Microsoft decide to do something about this.

So I have been watching these threads for the past month and all is see is the same issues and no resolutions, except for users changing email hosts. There are talk of people taking out class actions but I haven't come across any to jump on to.

Ironically this all started after I signed up for 365.

If anyone has anything better to advise please do so.