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
    2023-10-16T09:48:14+00:00

    Please stop those spam. I Got tehm from ******@mailing.greetz.nl and ******@mailing.greetz.com and many others. I have put them as spam or phishing or blocked them, but still receiving them.

    Please help!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-13T00:11:41+00:00

    Same issue with me, started this week.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-12T20:42:20+00:00

    I am in the same boat, having this email address for so long and having so much tied to it. But it is becoming unusable. I truly hate the nefarious jerk who same up with the mechanism to create this flood of spam!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-12T20:05:13+00:00

    I’ve been having this since Monday. Started as about 6-10. I now get them every 3 minutes. I am reporting all as phishing and nothing is happening, it’s just getting worse. Considering closing my email account which will be a real pain as I’ve had it since 2007.

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