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
    2023-12-18T13:49:30+00:00

    hi

    can you tell me how you traced the emails?if i gcan get too the source of all this **** i can take help of some friends and maybe stop this nonsens my junk mail in inbox is far less now since i made the suggestion with thicj boxes? but i have a ton off junk in junk mail it doesnt bother me if they come there but a couple off times wrong email comes in there and just get lost in the other junk

    hope you can help me out and thank you for your answer

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-20T11:11:49+00:00

    That is RUBBISH, as I do that action 5 times a day and they still keep coming. I will close my Outlook account and move to my gmail acc permanently. After 16 years.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-20T11:23:33+00:00

    Same here. I was a paying subscriber for 10 years, using Office and storing almost 200GB. Same mailaddress for 20 years. I moved to Google.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-27T01:21:29+00:00

    If you are a sender of emails, for instance you are a small business owner who sends to an email list using a service like klavio, mailchimp, mailerlite, or any number of other service providers, this will be helpful so that YOU do not get relegated to the SPAM department! BUT! Don't be fooled! The SPAM operators are savvy, and manage to collect enough revenue from people who fall for their scams that they can pay people to keep their emails "looking legit" to the bots that patrol for them! That's their job after all. And it keeps teh security companies employed! It's quite a great partnership they have going on.

    https://www.sprucely.net/news/new-email-sender-guidelines-at-google-and-yahoo-everything-you-need-to-know/
    If     you sign up for email newsletters, be SURE you know who you are sharing your addy with.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-27T04:35:23+00:00

    I do this every day, does not make any difference, so i let it accumulate and i got 172 in six days, totally fed up with microsoft. Ron..

    Hello ! I'm Nelson and I would be glad to assist you today, I'm sorry that you are experiencing this issue.

    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

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