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
    2023-12-09T10:48:16+00:00

    Ok, so it would seem that MS has now admitted there is an issue.... Text from MS reads;

    Dean, I want to inform you that it is a global issue which has badly affected our users, and we have already escalated the issue to tier-2 team and our engg. are already working in this issue.

    But I also want to inform you that it was recently resolved, but again we are getting this issue, so I can say that we are very close to resolve the issue, but right now we have a solution which has resolved many cases, let me help you on that.

    To resolve the issue, we need to reset the junk filters so that we can trigger the server, so that then server will reset the junk filter setting and then your issue will be resolved.

    Solution is to go into settings, Email, Junk email, scroll to the bottom of the page, under filters you will have two check boxes. Only trust email from and the other block attachments, pictures blah blah. Check both boxes, click save. Then uncheck both boxes and save... This will apparently reset the server. It may take a while but, according to MS, this resolves the issue......

    https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/options/mail/junkEmail

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-09T10:24:57+00:00

    For me it did not, by deleting without doing anything has worked, in my case I think AI technology has been used. I can only say what has worked for me as I'm no expert

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-09T10:16:32+00:00

    Amen.

    Look at this rate of SPAM, and they are all the same style (i.e. random words in the title, and a PDF attachment with a link to an adult dating website).

    Surely, we should have the option to block this garbage?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-08T19:02:18+00:00

    Thanks. I will give it a try.

    Alan

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-08T18:31:10+00:00

    I have had this problem for around a month now, I can say I think I tried everything. The only thing that has worked for me. Is to delete them straight from my focus box do not open do not send to spam. In the last few days my account is nearly normal, again. My spam folder is still very full but I don't really care about that. So if you are having these issues try just deleting it took about a week to start to see a difference but worth it in the end as the hassle of changing this address would be a nightmare. I hope this helps

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