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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.
Using classic Outlook for Windows in business environments
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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?
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
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......
After a few months of spam I gave up. Last week I subscribed to Google One, moved all my data, and started moving my mail over there and unsubscribed from Microsoft.
Yup, I'm getting hammered by the same type of spam. It's all random so impossible to create a filter. The only thing not random, at least on my end, is the sender address is or is spoofing an .outlook domain. So is the solution to block our own domain???
If the addresses are legit, then someone has found a serious hole that is allowing them to be able to create an unlimited amount of .outlook email addresses. And that is a Microsoft issue!