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
    2023-12-17T00:50:47+00:00

    NO!! Some suggestions, but I think it depends on the version of Microsoft you are running.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-16T20:25:37+00:00
    1. https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/microsoft-disrupts-cybercrime-operation-selling-fraudulent-accounts-to-notorious-hacking-gang/
    2. if your problem hasn't subsided in a few days, as microsoft purges these email accounts, then you probably need a new address. Make sure you report the emails as junk or phishing instead of blocking. As you mentioned, blocking doesn't work for majority of spam.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-16T18:34:39+00:00

    yes, i think we all know how to block individual spam email. if you read more carefully, you'll understand that there has been a fairly sudden tidal wave of repetitive assinine spam email. the outlook spam filter is not catching these. rather than going laboriously through 30-50 emails blocking one at a time (a COMPLETELY useless effort, since they change one letter in the sender address, and flood us again the same or next day) we want to know:

    1. why is this suddenly hapening?
    2. what is a systemic fix to get relief (besides creating a new email and starting the cycle all over again.)

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-15T15:04:51+00:00

    I was right. It was a Microsoft breech issue, at least for the spam that was coming from @outlook.com accounts, which was my main issue.

    Article explains how hackers were able to bypass security measures and create millions of Microsoft accounts and sell them to spammers.

    https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/microsoft-disrupts-cybercrime-operation-selling-fraudulent-accounts-to-notorious-hacking-gang/

    Incidentally, my spam from these accounts has tailed off. Just getting regular spam that mostly goes to spam folder.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-15T00:06:53+00:00

    Thanks for your reply.

    I have tried this, however I kept on receiving multiple junk emails.

    So I returned to the settings to find the boxes were unticked. So I ticked them once more. Clicked save, closed the screen. To double check the settings had been saved I went back into the junk settings and bam, the box was unticked.

    I went this through process a couple more times and every time after ticking the boxes and saving the settings, they would automatically return to being unticked.

    Extremely annoying and giving me more reason to make the switch to another email provider

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