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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T16:24:09+00:00

    I'm not talking dear to you in the tone of angry. I am writing to Microsoft in the tone of angry hopping that they are reading this forum.
    I already had a live chat with a member of support of Microsoft for these endless spams and asked me to send to an email address she wrote me the source of 2 or 3 emails of those spams which I did.
    Have a nice day 😊

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T16:06:11+00:00

    Why are you talking to me in the tone of angry at support or something? This is community forums, im also an outlook user looking for a better solution to receiving spam. You're welcome in any case.

    What you're asking cannot be done here. They have automated spam filters and if they fail, you're getting a lot of SPAM in your inbox.

    With rules, you're at least doing a setup that blocks most of them. Not a solution but better than manually deleting tons of spam.

    I'm not happy with this either.

    You can try making some rules. The SPAM i received had more or less the same keywords, so i made a rule (settings-> mail -> rule) that checks for subject includes and message body includes the spam words and in action select to move them on junk folder and make them read (or delete them). I prefer to have them on junk folder so i can check for false positives.

    Hope this helps a bit.

    Best thing would be if they fix their SPAM filters.. last couple of days i getting really obvious spam on my inbox!

    No, your answer didn't help at all.

    The point is to block completely those spams, to receive the sender a message from his/her mail host as undelivered. To not even come to my email. Not to go even to spam or deleted folder.

    Thank you for informing me that Web Outlook is currently incompetent to do something about it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T15:04:57+00:00

    What you're asking cannot be done here. They have automated spam filters and if they fail, you're getting a lot of SPAM in your inbox.

    With rules, you're at least doing a setup that blocks most of them. Not a solution but better than manually deleting tons of spam.

    I'm not happy with this either.

    You can try making some rules. The SPAM i received had more or less the same keywords, so i made a rule (settings-> mail -> rule) that checks for subject includes and message body includes the spam words and in action select to move them on junk folder and make them read (or delete them). I prefer to have them on junk folder so i can check for false positives.

    Hope this helps a bit.

    Best thing would be if they fix their SPAM filters.. last couple of days i getting really obvious spam on my inbox!

    No, your answer didn't help at all.

    The point is to block completely those spams, to receive the sender a message from his/her mail host as undelivered. To not even come to my email. Not to go even to spam or deleted folder.

    Thank you for informing me that Web Outlook is currently incompetent to do something about it.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T14:51:36+00:00

    What you're asking cannot be done here. They have automated spam filters and if they fail, you're getting a lot of SPAM in your inbox.

    With rules, you're at least doing a setup that blocks most of them. Not a solution but better than manually deleting tons of spam.

    I'm not happy with this either.

    You can try making some rules. The SPAM i received had more or less the same keywords, so i made a rule (settings-> mail -> rule) that checks for subject includes and message body includes the spam words and in action select to move them on junk folder and make them read (or delete them). I prefer to have them on junk folder so i can check for false positives.

    Hope this helps a bit.

    Best thing would be if they fix their SPAM filters.. last couple of days i getting really obvious spam on my inbox!

    No, your answer didn't help at all.

    The point is to block completely those spams, to receive the sender a message from his/her mail host as undelivered. To not even come to my email. Not to go even to spam or deleted folder.

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