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
    2023-10-20T19:27:42+00:00

    It's really bad, I know. Not what you want to hear, but I suggest scrolling through all the messages.

    There's no (clear) fix. However, I wrote at least 4 posts indicating that after several months, my problem disappeared. No idea why.

    No one else has indicated the same; not that I remember. I can't imagine being the only one. But when things work, no one says much, right?

    Not saying this will be the case for you. In the meantime, do all you can to update junk settings, etc. GL

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-20T12:59:05+00:00

    Mine has gone crazy. This is CLEARLY a problem at Microsoft. What is being done to fix this????

    Can you tell how have fix the .what is being done to fix ???

    l am getting more 100 spams and junks already inform mircosoft without any reply . How can stopped the spams and prishing emails from junk folder.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-19T07:10:48+00:00

    From not the community crew:

    Maybe the positive list and negative list should be tried modified.
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    1. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/command-line-switches-for-microsoft-office-products-079164cd-4ef5-4178-b235-441737deb3a6#Category=Outlook

    open cmd windows as the administrater
    outlook.exe /cleansubscriptions

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    2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/troubleshoot/administration/delete-junk-email-rules-mfcmapi-exchange

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-19T06:50:50+00:00

    These solutions aren't working. Reporting them as spam doesn't help.

    What also does not help is creating a with the words you find in the subject. No matter if you create a rule to delete all mails with "keto", "bitcoin" or other scams in the subject, they still get through. After weeks of this and hoping Microsoft comes up with a solution other than those that don't work I'm starting to move to Google mail where, so far, no spam comes through.

    I'm afraid Microsoft (or Google et al for that matter) are too big to need to listen to cumstomers and can go about this at their own leisure.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-17T14:53:13+00:00

    This issue still happening is absolutely unacceptable...

    40+ emails a day.. spam, phishing, etc.

    The fact that a billion dollar company has not resolved this is baffling........

    The scripted useless advice from Microsoft is an obvious deflection of a real fix...

    It is a shame that most people have to switch back to gmail or another service because Microsoft doesn't show the same urgency they do with their enterprise users.

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