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

I am so sick of it also. It's exhausting getting all this spam--and when I hit "block sender"--the same emails keep coming.

I feel MSN is doing nothing to help its users on this issue.

Yes, I understand the same bath installation and insurance and other fake junk have many, many addresses.

It has gotten much worse in the last two weeks for me. It's about 50 a day I have to hit "block sender"--and they keep coming. Now I hit "delete all."

Please help. Should I switch to another email? I left MSN because they started selling ads to political groups I didn't support.

It doesn't seem that switching email servers is the answer.

I say that because I have 5 totally different email accounts on different servers (Gmail, hotmail, live.com, comcast, and my own business website). I receive all of my email downloaded to the Outlook App on my laptop. ALL of my accounts get SPAM and phishing emails daily. Including the lauded Gmail! Some days "just" 1 or 2, and other days multiple DOZENS.

What is the ROOT CAUSE here? Is the problem at the sending server? The receiving server? The sending or receiving client app?

Really, it's nefarious businesses and individuals that have more time and money to utilize trying to get our time and money. And enough people falling for their scams to make it worth it! It's amazing to me how many SCAM emails get into my inboxes that are @gmail addys! Gmail trusts gmail! So they fill up my inbox!

The solution resides further back in the process than at the email receiving client filtering level. I'm not techy to that degree, so that's above my scope, but the root cause needs to be addressed.

(except that the ultimate root cause is nefarious "bad people doing bad things" because they profit from it in some way!)

My solution was just stop using Outlook as main mail. They have a problem of bots being able to create accounts so they can spam yours and because are from outlook they are not stopped by any (if even exists) anti-spam filter. On other services you have to verify your account by mobile or something so bots cannot do this so easily.

I even removed outlook mail from being synced on my devices. Bye bye outlook mail while this is not solved.

And if I had to hire some service for professional use, of course it would not be this one, given my experience as user, cannot risk to get this in my professional mail.

So, they have to solve both the automated creation of random accounts so easily and adding some effective anti-spam filter, i.e. sending to a spam folder messages from recently created accounts not in your contacts.

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.

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.