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
    2023-11-16T17:53:14+00:00

    thanks.

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  2. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2023-11-16T17:40:10+00:00

    Your email address is leaked to spammers. Your husband's isn't.

    Don't think. Just do it. Keep in mind that no email providers can protect your mailbox when your address is leaked to spammers.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T17:26:20+00:00

    Also thinking about quitting Outlook after 30 yrs. Husband is also on Outlook but not having the problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-15T22:53:32+00:00

    I've marked so many as phishing but then within seconds I get more. Is Hotmail doing anything or is Gmail my only recourse?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-14T19:12:29+00:00

    I have been having this same experience for several weeks now. I mark each of them as spam/junk, but they keep arriving. There is no evidence that your AI is learning, and the emails themselves should be plainly simple for MSFT to identify and blacklist. See this screenshot from what I've deleted just in the last hour.

    This should not be difficult to fix. It is forcing me to think about shutting down the Outlook.com email address that I've used for many years.

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