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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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-05T15:18:00+00:00

    I have found the solution - the spammers have a way to replicate some email addresses on my “safe senders” list and impersonate the sender to bypass the filter. I deleted those “safe senders” from my list whose domains appeared in the message source (find the “view message source” option when opening the spam message to scan for domains of your safe senders) of the spam emails and since then do not receive any junk emails in my inbox! Needless to say, this was a solution I found on my own, the outlook.com customer service and their Tier 2 outlook engineers were not able to help at all despite repeated interactions.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-04T20:43:01+00:00

    I have Spectrum Email and have been doing this all along to no avail including on their webmail and they say there isn't much they can do when using a third party which is you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-04T02:50:59+00:00

    I have the same issue, and it's getting really old having to click on each one 30-50 times per day to block sender/report phishing. And these are all coming to my Focused Inbox, so I'm receiving a worthless push notification on my cell phone each time, too. This has been happening for several weeks now, and it's incredibly annoying.

    I have same issue for couple of months now.
    My issue is that all these emails haven't sender (I supposed sent as BCC) and reporting as spam is useless.
    What to do

    Cheers

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-31T03:01:39+00:00

    Hi Nelson,

    that solution stopped working years ago....sorry to say.

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