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
    2024-01-29T13:40:34+00:00

    I pay for my hotmail account and I too am getting a sudden high influx of junk emails into my inbox. The thing I don't understand is that firstly they are obviously junk and secondly this is in addition to a considerable number of emails which Microsoft put directly in my junk email, much of which is not junk. It is about time Microsoft took a lonk hard look at their algorithms, I never get the same problem with my gmail address. I have had my hotmail address as long as I can remember but I have never had this problem until recently. Get your act together Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-29T21:37:30+00:00

    IMHO Microsoft will not fix this problem unless they are confronted with a class action by those of us affected by the problem they created.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-30T09:37:45+00:00

    It does not work

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-31T03:01:39+00:00

    Hi Nelson,

    that solution stopped working years ago....sorry to say.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-04T02:50:59+00:00

    I have the same issue, and it's getting really old having to click on each one 30-50 times per day to block sender/report phishing. And these are all coming to my Focused Inbox, so I'm receiving a worthless push notification on my cell phone each time, too. This has been happening for several weeks now, and it's incredibly annoying.

    I have same issue for couple of months now.
    My issue is that all these emails haven't sender (I supposed sent as BCC) and reporting as spam is useless.
    What to do

    Cheers

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