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
    2024-03-02T06:19:18+00:00

    Who do you report them to?

    Highlight/tick box on email, click "Report".

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-01T08:50:48+00:00

    These past few weeks, the SPAM has suddenly just stopped on both of my Hotmail accounts.

    We are talking literally 200+/day for years, to less than one-per-day.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-01T08:58:36+00:00

    Yes, me too - maybe 1, 2 or 3 a day or zero even

    how weird, but yay a result !

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-01T11:54:58+00:00

    Perhaps Microsoft have taken notice of all the complaints about the quantity of spam

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-01T15:42:51+00:00

    The enormous amount of spam I received in early February has tapered off a lot, but I am still getting maybe 20 a day, at one point I got over 1200 in a little over an hour!

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