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
    2024-02-08T19:58:33+00:00

    NO. I have blocked senders, set up rules and that didn't work, then changed my setting to have all unknown emails go to junk, the filtered the junk emails and ID'd safe senders emails, yet some of the safe senders still nw get sent to junk. I am still getting 70 odd spam a day all from different email addresses. I even tried to see see if I can identify a common host IP address in the message source and it seems they are all different and they are possibly piggybacking emails via other email addresses just to make things more complicated.

    Microsoft support, almost seem independent from microsoft and basically conceded there is nothing more I can do until Microsoft decide to do something about this.

    So I have been watching these threads for the past month and all is see is the same issues and no resolutions, except for users changing email hosts. There are talk of people taking out class actions but I haven't come across any to jump on to.

    Ironically this all started after I signed up for 365.

    If anyone has anything better to advise please do so.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-08T19:07:59+00:00

    No, and Microsoft isn't responding. Some people seem to have found a work-around, but they don't work on my system.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-08T18:46:52+00:00

    No. I was informed by Life Lock that a company I bought toner ink and cartridges had their data breached and that I wound up on the "dark web." It wasn't long before this started. As much as I don't like changing my email address, I will probably have to and shut close the other one if that's possible.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-08T17:38:02+00:00

    I will probably switch to another email and close my current one out.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-08T14:58:29+00:00

    Sorry, no. Microsoft is doing nothing. They said mark the emails as junk, if that doesn't work block sender and if that doesn't work make a rule to send those emails to the junk folder. I have done all three, none of them worked and Microsoft has done no good. I actually set up my own email domain. Many providers do this and they have very enhanced protection.

    GoDaddy, IONOS, Bluehost, HostGator, A2 Hosting, Hostinger are a few you can use. Best of all, they have 24 / 7 customer support you can talk to.

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