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
    2023-11-07T20:56:34+00:00

    In the past few weeks I’ve had so many spam emails going into my focused folder. It’s now crashing my Outlook app. I’ve had this account for years and never experienced this. Trying to get help from MS is like pulling teeth! I understand they must have millions of accounts, but it seems I’m not the only one who is experiencing this now, so there must be a problem their end. Why has nothing been communicated? I really don’t have time to report all of these new spam emails!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-07T17:39:37+00:00

    Thank you, if my address wasn't so important I'd delete, really frustrating as I pay for extra storage.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-07T08:29:38+00:00

    No, Microsoft don't care, the filter that puts everything that isn't allowed into spam is also buggered.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-04T23:21:49+00:00

    Hey Guys,

    Just wondering has anyone figured out how to stop these nuisance spam emails coming through, blocking and reporting seems to be making them worse 🤦‍♀️.

    Many thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-03T13:52:13+00:00

    I have the same question.I woke up 2 days ago with over 1000 spam in my inbox. Please help me MR MS.

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