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
    2022-10-26T20:23:41+00:00

    Hello Dwilly90! I'm sorry you're having this issue, the only way you can stop this is to follow the steps provided above yo block all spam messages.

    Please note that spammers buy email addresses from special providers in bulk to add them to their mailing lists. If you've noted a sudden increase in the number of spam emails landing in your account, there's a high chance that your address was part of a list recently sold to one or more scammers.

    Please always keep your email address private.

    Thanks

    Nelson...

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-26T17:56:26+00:00

    Same here - I've been blocking/reporting about 40-50 emails per day for about 6 straight weeks now, and they just keep coming. My main issue is that they're coming to the Focused Inbox, so I get annoying push notifications on my cell phone each time. Why isn't the junk folder catching all or at least most of them like it had done for about 20 years previously?

    One other issue - sometimes it won't even let me block the sender because a message pops up that says "can't block email addresses from your own organization" or something. Uh...I don't work for a spamming organization. And these email addresses are just a bunch of random gibberish.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-26T17:39:42+00:00

    Yes I have been doing this, but the spam emails keep coming in. They are from all different email addresses, so it doesn't really matter if I block one, they keep showing up.

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  4. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2022-10-25T22:26:27+00:00

    To block someone in Outlook.com, select the messages or senders you want to block.
    From the top toolbar, select Junk > Block (or Spam > Block).
    Select OK. The messages you select will be deleted and all future messages will be blocked from your mailbox. Hope this helps

    Nelson

    You do realize that won't do anything, right? Spammers have billions of random addresses, subject lines to use. Another problem is Outlook seems to ignore blocklist. I manually added gmail.com domain but I can still send myself an email from my gmail account. It arrives safely in my outlook.com Inbox.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-25T22:08:47+00:00

    Hello Dwilly! I'm sorry you're still having this issue, did you try the steps I mentioned above?

    Please let me know so I can render further assistance.

    Thanks

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