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
    2023-11-23T15:10:57+00:00

    Same here, hundreds of spam messages per day not being blocked.

    My Outlook address has become practically unusable due to this.

    The only way round this is to stop using Outlook. I've had the same problem all year. I forward the spam on to Microsoft and our government's National Cyber Security service here in the UK and block each email individually. Doesn't work. On checking the email domain name (which belongs to Microsoft) with the NCS service it states the DMARC policy (anti-spoofing) is set to "none" and MTA-STS (Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security) is not configured. Shocking. I only discovered this today - a major failure by Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-23T09:26:40+00:00

    Same here, hundreds of spam messages per day not being blocked.

    My Outlook address has become practically unusable due to this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-23T03:32:36+00:00

    I also have the same problem. The strange thing is there is no sender on those junk/phishing emails, if you want to reply those emails, the outlook can't read out the sender's email address.

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  4. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2023-11-21T15:50:42+00:00

    I quoted another user. I didn't quote your post. Most of us here are users except some with a title "Microsoft Agent" (or something like that).

    Spammers do not ask for permissions to spam your mailbox. Saying that Microsoft allows spammers to target their users sounds like they ask Microsoft for permission to spam. That's dumb.

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