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

All of a sudden I’m getting 60 plus scam emails per day. Your suggestion to block them individually is ridiculous: like playing whack-a-mole.

Please give me instructions on how to close down this email account. Too frustrating to use.

Angie

PLEASE.

Thank you Rob ☺️

That is the exact problem - I believe I unknowingly must have ticked or unticked a box and found myself on some mailing list !!!

The problem now is exactly like you say - how do I identify who is selling it and how to remove myself from the list…..

Surely there must be a way? If anybody can help, would be most grateful.

The issue appears to be with Microsoft's spam heuristics algorithm. Often spam seems to bypass their filters. I assume either they have an "I'm too busy, just let it pass" rule, or there is something in specific emails that seems to break their algorithm.

I have downloaded all the spam emails from my paid hotmail.com inbox and uploaded them to several open-source IMAP filters, and they picked up and filtered 100% of the emails that the Microsoft filter passed into my inbox. The spam score in each case was REALLY HIGH.

Some examples passed into my Hotmail inbox:

• Emails purportedly to be from Microsoft but with <no sender address>, saying "your device is under attack, all your files will be deleted"
• Various Antivirus emails telling me my subscription has lapsed

I have a friend who works for Microsoft and he said it's a running joke inside the company about how poor their spam filter has become. It used to be pretty much watertight.

Come on MS, realise there is a problem, and FIX IT!!!

OK so heres a good update. Don't ask me how but I finally got onto a chat from the help desk at MS.

They remoted in to my PC to see if they could fix the issue, changing settings and blocking certain words which is all pretty much everything we have all already done and of course no change.

So what they concluded is that my email address has been supplied by a third party, possibly via a shopping site, competition site or the like I have signed up to, to spammers. They suggested I find that webpage and unsubscribe, which is like finding a needle in a haystack.

So i thought maybe another way is to look at the coding in the back of the email and attempt to identify the original sending IP address and then work how how to block that.

Only thing is I am not IT literate enough to understand how work out who/what IP address this is. Any advice on how to find out and how to block would be great.