I am getting Emails From "Temu." and I Have No Idea What They Are

Can't agree more!

😂🙏- they get everywhere!

according to wikipedia something in the region of 90% of all emails sent are unsolicited and of a malicious nature, they number in the hundreds of billions sent daily,

without spam we could manage with an email infrastructure one tenth of the size it is today,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_spam#Statistics_and_estimates

you are quite right to question the environmental cost of all this infuriating spam, Jean-Marc Jancovici has spoken of the impact of IT;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0O73kkFPbU

oh, new discovery, if you use outlook.live.com in a browser with the add-on Adblock Plus installed you might find some junk emails becoming invisible in front of your very eyes, quite bizarre,

it turns out Adblock Plus is recognising them as adverts and obscuring them, if you disable ABP on outlook.live.com emails stop mysteriously vanishing!

but this also implies that the links and images some of these phishing emails use are the same as the ones used by online advertising and marketing companies and placed by Google,

when I disabled ADP the first Ad I was served was for.... "Temu" !!

Great tips, 👍🙏. Likewise for me - keep on plugging away.

I just wonder what the carbon footprint of all the spammer activity amounts too 😱

I've had another half day stint of battling the spammers,

but I've learned a few things with the assistance of a kind spirit overseeing this community,

I found a website recommended in an article in the Washington Post, it allows you to check if your email address has been revealed in any data breaches:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

both my hotmail addresses had been involved in multiple data breaches!

then I checked my sign-in activity: Microsoft Account>Security>Sign-in activity>view your sign-in activity

both my hotmail addresses were being involved in unsuccessful sign-in attempts almost around the clock and from all over the world,

really quite shocking, I had to go through thousands of unsuccessful sign-in attempts just to review the activity over the last 30 days,

each address did appear to have had a successful sign-in from an IP address that wasn't mine,

so I changed both my passwords,

I was advised I could create an alias, a new outlook.com address, without deleting my existing account, this could be made my primary identity, linked to my existing account and I could set it as the only address through which to sign-in to my account, whilst disabling my existing hotmail address as a means of signing in,

this defeats the attempts to sign into my account via my hotmail address,

I created an alias for each hotmail address, made it the default sign-in address and disabled sign in from the respective hotmail address,

this is the Microsoft walkthrough I found: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-or-remove-an-email-alias-in-outlook-com-459b1989-356d-40fa-a689-8f285b13f1f2 I then had to enter the new passwords into Thunderbird and also make the new alias outlook addresses the default identities for the accounts to POP to Thunderbird as an email client on my PC,

a bit fiddly to figure out, but it's all working perfectly now,

it also seems as though Outlook has changed the way you can add senders to the 'Blocked senders and domains' list,

currently I can't copy addresses and paste them into the list, it refuses to save them,

but the 'Block' button I've put at the top of my message does enter the sender into the 'Block' list,

you can find the means to customise the buttons here:

https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/options/mail/surfaceActions Message Surface,

I've just got: Reply/Forward/Delete/Report phishing/Block selected by checking their boxes.

never give up, never surrender!