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
    2023-10-31T11:06:19+00:00

    Microsoft appears to have broken their junk mail filter. I have the "Only trust email from addresses in my Safe senders ..." option set and that worked fine until recently.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-01T16:07:28+00:00

    frank what is is and where can it be found,, ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-02T16:47:25+00:00

    I've been "training" these for the past few months, you need to do more for this premium service I pay for, it's a joke now. On average 100 emails miss the spam filter per day, YET I have my inbox set to only show allowed emails, sort it out for the love of god.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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