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. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2023-11-21T15:50:42+00:00

    I quoted another user. I didn't quote your post. Most of us here are users except some with a title "Microsoft Agent" (or something like that).

    Spammers do not ask for permissions to spam your mailbox. Saying that Microsoft allows spammers to target their users sounds like they ask Microsoft for permission to spam. That's dumb.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-21T04:43:31+00:00

    Oh, sorry I thought I was contacting the help desk. Don't know where you got 'allowed to be targeted' from, it's not in my message.

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  4. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2023-11-20T15:58:57+00:00

    My technology??? I don't own Microsoft, nor do I work for them. What do you mean by "allowed to be targeted"??? You sound like someone who does not understand technology.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-20T15:22:05+00:00

    The sad irony is that Microsoft literally buys in on AI to add it to their products, and yet when AI bots exploit the ability to sent massive spam, MS is unable to use AI to properly flag those emails as junk.

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