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
    2025-05-25T11:35:39+00:00

    I think I am going to do the same. Going back to Yahoo who NEVER had these issues before. I am hoping this is Not the norm for all emails. This is outrageous. I don't even want to look at my emails due to so many spam and junk mail. However, sometimes you have important emails coming in and I have to sift through the garbage. Waste of time. Also, the enormous amounts of illegal scams going on is ridiculous. How is this even allowed? Believe me, already looking into deleting email. No help on the subject.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-05-25T21:43:37+00:00

    Yes, I feel the same. Microsoft is absolutely brick walling this problem. I did set my spam level to the highest possible but still get a few that Outlook lets in. I no longer go through my Spam file. It is laborious and time consuming. 500 to 1000 go my spam folder every day! :(

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-15T23:32:17+00:00

    This solution doesn't work as appears they use a new random character spoofed address each time.

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