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
    2024-02-17T20:20:23+00:00

    Thank you for the information.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-20T14:35:16+00:00

    this is interesting and disturbing at the same time,

    I'm glad that you have managed to escape the spamming, but I'm very uncomfortable about you having to pay to achieve this,

    your data was gathered without your explicit consent,

    the data gathered about you was sold on and used maliciously against you,

    you have now paid to have that data taken down,

    it's like an extortion scam but with this company coming in and saying "we know how to fix your problem, but at a price"

    if you can request the data be taken down you ought not have to pay and the grounds under which these companies hold your data seem rather shaky, a presumption of consent because they managed to obtain the data, yet the data was obtained without your explicit knowledge so how can one presume that to be consent?

    if Microsoft cared about it's customers and it's reputation it would approach these databrokers and demand that all email addresses from a Microsoft domain be erased from their records under threat of legal action,

    frankly these databrokers are vermin, parasites feeding off loopholes in the law and gaps in internet security and legislation,

    if anyone is a lawyer who fancies taking on a class action against these slime and suing them out of business I'd like to be the first to sign up.

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