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
    2023-10-12T18:27:51+00:00

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

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-12T19:14:15+00:00

    I normally don't do something like this, but... OUTLOOK.COM IS BECOMING USELESS!!!!!

    I had a similar problem on Gmail two weeks ago, and it cleared up after two days because the Gmail filters caught on. I just now had to report TWENTY emails on outlook.com, and yet THEY ARE STILL COMING!!!!

    DO SOMETHING NOW!!!!

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  4. 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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  5. 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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