Why am I suddenly getting so many spam emails on outlook.com from an apparent AI bot?

Anonymous
2023-10-11T03:47:38+00:00

In the past 2 hours alone, I have received at least a dozen spam emails written in random words. For example “isnt a said tone Then it level in very he possible 54 u443 hkother” They are coming from apparent one-off gmail, live, hotmail, and other accounts. And the so-called junk filters are catching NONE of them. I get most of my email on mobile devices, so I’m not using the desktop Outlook app, and thus I can’t adjust the level of spam filtering. To be honest, I pay for Microsoft 365 and I find it ridiculous that (A) the default outlook.com spam filters are not catching them, and (B) I can’t adjust the spam filter so it does catch them. Microsoft, quit dinking around with AI on Bing and put it to work in your own spam filters!

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-10-12T18:24:18+00:00

    Hi Alex,

    I have replied to the private message with a couple of examples. And I have received 20 more in the past ONE HOUR!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-12T19:18:13+00:00

    I too have been getting these emails to my msn email in the last couple of days. I have blocked all of them but today it is almost none stop. Some have a sexual content but most sound possibly religious. or something. Written like incomplete sentences, social content. It is disturbing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-12T18:27:51+00:00

    Me too (no #), but most of mine aren't gibberish, they're ads. But yes tons of them.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-12T19:29:03+00:00

    A simple way to a Stop this would be if MS allowed. . Com/No Hawking and a fine for sending unwanted emails suspended their account until the fine paid

    I agree MS is becoming unusable a pile of ****

    Regards Frank

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-11T07:11:29+00:00

    Hi, GlennPettit

    Good day!

    Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to assist you.

    According to your description, I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing an influx of spam emails on Outlook.

    Microsoft has implemented several measures to prevent spam emails from reaching your inbox, including AI-based filters. However, some spam emails may still slip through the cracks.

    To help prevent spam emails from reaching your inbox, you can mark them as junk or spam. This will help train the AI-based filters to better identify and catch similar emails in the future. Additionally, you can create rules to automatically move emails from specific senders or with specific keywords to your junk folder.

    If you're still receiving a large number of spam emails, could you please be kindly to share your detailed Product information in Private Message.

    In order to protect your privacy, please share the screenshot of your view in Private Message as following steps:

    Please click account you logged in on the up-right corner - My profile - View private messages to get it.

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    Once we received your detailed account information, we will ask the related team which has higher permission than us that we would able to check on the server-side for you.

    Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

    Hope you all the best!

    Sincerely,

    Alex | Microsoft Community Moderator.

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