Microsoft Outlook Upgrade Your Account Emails that Cannot Be Sent to Junk

Anonymous
2022-05-14T18:28:15+00:00

In the past week or so, I have been getting emails with the subject Microsoft Outlook Upgrade that are mostly blank if I open them. While I have the option to delete them, all of the Archive, Junk, Block Sender, Move To etc. options disappear. I also cannot find any of these options if I open the email and right-click on it. Furthermore, when I delete the emails (4 so far today), they do not show up in the Trash folder. All of the email handling options show up for all the other emails in my account.

About the only thing I can do is right-click and View Page Source or Inspect. When I do that, it shows that the source is www.w3.org/1999/xhtml.  But I cannot add this to my blocked sender list because I get an error message that says it is an incorrectly formatted email address.

So can someone please tell me how to junk these annoying emails (which occasionally also tell me that they are new kind of ad).

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-15T18:13:51+00:00

    OK, I see a delete icon next to it now with the Ad symbol and deleted. Do not want these ADs

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-15T18:12:55+00:00

    I agree, how do we get rid of this Upgrade Your Account email or AD?

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-10T19:05:05+00:00

    Why is everyone trying to treat this nag as an ad? It is an email. No amount of ad control will affect the display of an email. Even if you could turn off all advertising, this nag will still show up. It has to be treated as an email. Now, while there are ways to deal with annoying emails, this one is totally immune from all email control. If it can't be handled as an ad and it can't be handled as an email, I see no other way to deal with it other than to leave it there unopened. And just like companies hounding me daily with junk email, I refuse to ever spend a dime on them. Again, do nags ever produce more sales than an occasional notification?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-10T05:53:56+00:00

    I just checked - "Advertising Preferences" page is still there. Is your account a paid Premium Microsoft 365 account or a free Outlook.com account? Mine is the latter.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-07-10T00:44:45+00:00

    I guess they removed Ad Preferences since it's no longer there

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