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
    2023-10-28T05:35:36+00:00

    i agree. that nelson guy gives no help. who has the **** time to click email one by one, flag, report, etc. over and over. nobody wants to do this. gmail is very great at blocking. outlook not at all. they can but they choose not to. outlook is as **** as yahoo. i deleted my spam folder at 8 this morn. i had 150 spam emails a few min ago. im tired of this **** myself and im at the point that i no longer wish to keep my hotmail email because of nostalgia. peace of mind is outweighing that. nelsons as worthless as geeksquad.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-21T16:19:23+00:00

    You know there is no need to completely put aside. As mentioned I stop using it as “main mail”, then just moving the most important stuff and noticing your contacts about the change should be enough.

    For others secondary things, notifications, subscriptions and etc. just leave them untouched and revise the outlook from time to time (and for make cleaning).

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-21T00:32:07+00:00

    i'm sure microsoft makes lots of money doing this to us; you can eliminate, block, report fishing, unsubscribe ad nauseum and they will just come up with new ones

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-21T00:26:55+00:00

    i sure do agree; i am in the same boat !

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-20T19:27:42+00:00

    It's really bad, I know. Not what you want to hear, but I suggest scrolling through all the messages.

    There's no (clear) fix. However, I wrote at least 4 posts indicating that after several months, my problem disappeared. No idea why.

    No one else has indicated the same; not that I remember. I can't imagine being the only one. But when things work, no one says much, right?

    Not saying this will be the case for you. In the meantime, do all you can to update junk settings, etc. GL

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