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
    2024-02-06T08:34:50+00:00

    I have found the solution - the spammers have a way to replicate some email addresses on my “safe senders” list and impersonate the sender to bypass the filter. I deleted those “safe senders” from my list whose domains appeared in the message source (find the “view message source” option when opening the spam message to scan for domains of your safe senders) of the spam emails and since then do not receive any junk emails in my inbox! Needless to say, this was a solution I found on my own, the outlook.com customer service and their Tier 2 outlook engineers were not able to help at all despite repeated interactions.

    Hello M011OG.

    I haven't personally had that with any of my safe senders but well done 😁 I think we all need to think outside the box to get this under control as it is clear MS have lost the plot and cannot deal with it.

    I'm trying to understand more about the blocking emails/domain names. I right click on the spam email, scroll to "view" then "view message source". I open a blank word doc then copy everything with .com or .me into the blank word doc then add everyone to the "junk email" - "blocked senders and domains". I have no idea if this is the best way but I have gone from 40-50 per day down to 9-12 per day over the last few days of doing this. The below is everything from just one junk email looking at the message source... Maybe it could be (if the below is actually all the email accounts) that people post theirs so everyone can copy & paste into the blocked email/domain part?

    Holt_James_******@azq.edubizz.me

    1. VI1PR02MB10097.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
    2. FR3P281CA0165.DEUP281.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
    3. AS8P251MB0808.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
    4. PAXP251MB0196.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
    5. DU2PR04CA0305.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com
    6. DB1PEPF00039233.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
    7. DU2PR04CA0305.outlook.office365.com
    8. azq.edubizz.me
    9. EUR04-VI1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com
    10. DB1PEPF00039233.mail.protection.outlook.com
    11. PAWPR02MB9949.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
    12. ******@VI1PR02MB10097.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-05T15:18:00+00:00

    I have found the solution - the spammers have a way to replicate some email addresses on my “safe senders” list and impersonate the sender to bypass the filter. I deleted those “safe senders” from my list whose domains appeared in the message source (find the “view message source” option when opening the spam message to scan for domains of your safe senders) of the spam emails and since then do not receive any junk emails in my inbox! Needless to say, this was a solution I found on my own, the outlook.com customer service and their Tier 2 outlook engineers were not able to help at all despite repeated interactions.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-04T20:43:01+00:00

    I have Spectrum Email and have been doing this all along to no avail including on their webmail and they say there isn't much they can do when using a third party which is you.

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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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