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
    2023-04-06T05:02:35+00:00

    I had this email account for 24 years and NEVER had this problem until a few months ago! Way too much junk going into inbox!

    I decided to report everything as junk or phishing, etc.

    A week or 2 later it appeared to slow down a lot. Maybe got <10 in inbox per day at most which still shouldn't happen, but I sure couldn't complain considering the improvement. I also checked JUNK mail settings, but probably not enough.*

    Just a few days ago, it started up again and worse!

    * Woolly-time post on Feb. 27. CHECK THAT OUT - easy to follow. It 'appears' to have helped?

    ---Well, maybe not as much as I thought it did. I'm switching to gmail.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-24T23:39:39+00:00

    I had this email account for 24 years and NEVER had this problem until a few months ago! Way too much junk going into inbox!

    I decided to report everything as junk or phishing, etc.

    A week or 2 later it appeared to slow down a lot. Maybe got <10 in inbox per day at most which still shouldn't happen, but I sure couldn't complain considering the improvement. I also checked JUNK mail settings, but probably not enough.*

    Same thing here, except that my account's age is not 24 years like your, but everything else you mentioned is pretty much the same with me. It's getting out of control, and nothing seems to stop the spam.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-01T13:28:48+00:00

    I have a paid 365 account for many years and I'm getting spammed mercilessly also, so to me it isn't "a paid vs. non-paid account" issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-09T22:26:32+00:00

    I too have had my Hotmail address for 10 years or longer but just the past year I have been over whelmed by spam! is it coincidentally it was when MS wanted users of the free Hotmail to upgrade to a pay system... I THINK NOT!!!!!

    I am moving my email to another host..

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-09T22:52:41+00:00

    MS this is just plain stupid!! as i do..i get something scam in a mail i mark it as junk but then it might take 1 minute or 1 week and same MF mail adress and mail is in my inbox...so maybe its time you take a descision either you help us users get rid off all this **** **** spam and scam mail OR you will loose a ton off people on hotmail..so im looking forward hearing from a tech support on MS in this thread telling us how we can fix this if NOT i will migrate EVERY mail i have on hotmail too a gmail or something like that or maybe a pure chinese mail account because everything is better then we get a ton off spam each freaking day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    so FIX THIS OR I WILLSPREAD THE WORD THAT MS DO NOT GIVE A RATASS IN THEIR hotmail PEOPLE!!!!

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