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

You don't know how many are coming your way. There could be thousand hitting your address every minute. Without any filter you will see a lot more in your mailbox.

Not much, unfortunately. I had a user (btw I'm a mail administrator) who suddenly got a ton of spam. I changed her email address. There is nothing much you can do when spammers target your mailbox with thousands of email every hour. Out of the thousands, a few will go through, guaranteed.

😂🤣😂🤣. Yeah right! “Out of thousands, a few will go through guaranteed”. These aren’t a FEW that we all are experiencing!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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...

I love your train of thought! We ALL should do that! 👍🏻👍🏻

Not much, unfortunately. I had a user (btw I'm a mail administrator) who suddenly got a ton of spam. I changed her email address. There is nothing much you can do when spammers target your mailbox with thousands of email every hour. Out of the thousands, a few will go through, guaranteed.

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...