Spam filter in hotmail not working.

The problem is if your Hotmail/Outlook account has been included in a data breach. This is the case with mine, and not only is the email address the target of automated spam accounts, there's multiple attempts to gain access to the account:

The Microsoft mail filters are sketchy at best. It's not too difficult to identify spam messages, but there's little success in getting them to act consistently. I've set up rules extensively, and still apparently blocked messages make their way into my inbox, not into junk mail either. There's only one solution that I'm now implementing, and that is to abandon the email account altogether in favour of another. This will take some time to ensure I've correctly re-routed all the traffic, but I have no other options on the table.

Hotmail is garbage, the spam filter barely works, my gmail works so much better, I need to transition to gmail and dump hotmail.

Hello Mustafa,

"Blocking these emails is not really the best option as the spammers can change the email address and still be able to send emails"

The above is the most effective way on top of the "built in" system that's based on algorithms, using word patterns might have worked ten years ago and is currently none effective. The most infuriating part of Hotmail and also the main reason I do not use it for important email is because Microsoft gets to decide which email addresses I can block. Whoever decided that the latter was "effective" is actually promoting spam as these email addressees that I cannot block are advertisements and an 8th grader in primary / elementary school has the mental ability to understand why that is.

Block sender: Is rendered void as a solution because the end user does not get to choose who they can block, so this is only half advice.

Solution: Let the end user decide who to block.

Report Junk: Again this as I am sure most people know is not effective at all for the same reason that you gave above "Blocking these emails is not really the best option as the spammers can change the email address and still be able to send emails".

Solution: Block the email address as soon as it is reported.

I hope this clears the issue people are having with Hotmail.

Have a nice day.

Regards

Peter

Closing hotmail account mailbox may be the only solution.

Thanks you Microsoft

Hello, yes I do remember that some time ago there was an issue where the spam filter was not working well. I don't remember my answer to you in particular. Did the two suggestions work back then?

In the past few days I am seeing people say that they are receiving the same spam 2 times. And there isn't a lot of options that we as users have to make the spam emails stop coming in. In my experience creating rules are a great way to stop these emails from coming into the inbox. Since you already know the topic of these emails it will take a few minutes to create these rules.

Nowadays the spammers have found a way to manipulate their email address, their email address may look the same for us but in reality they are a different address each time.

So if the rules suggestion worked then even when the servers were broken I would suggest you to create a few rules to stop these emails from coming in as well.

Let me know if this works or not

Mustafa