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

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

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

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" !!

😂🙏- they get everywhere!

Can't agree more!

I am familiar with Temu, although I don't use it, have never made an account, signed up, or interacted with it in any way whatsoever

this started today, where I keep getting emails in my Inbox from a sender called "Temu." (I've not opened any of the emails to look at the other email to see if it's legit or not). I've gotten 3 in total, which I've all deleted

the first 2 had a description: "You have won an Temu pallets". first came in at 11am, second came in at 3pm

the most recent one either came in at 6pm or 7pm, I forgot to make note, but it had a description along the lines of: "RE: confirm your receipt"

I have blocked the sender every single time on each of these emails but it hasn't made a difference. if the third email came in at 7pm, then if I'm not mistaken that's 4 hours apart between each email

is anyone else receiving these or...why do I keep getting these? is it more likely that it's a spam email if I've blocked the sender and it keeps working around it? it keeps coming to my Inbox, not Spam

Hi,

You can block the sender email domains, which can be accessed by hovering over the spam email. Sometimes it doesn't display a sender email, in which case this option is out.

1. Log into Outlook in either the web browser or the windows Outlook app;
2. Click on the 'cog' symbol towards the top right;
3. Click on "Email";
4. Click on "Junk email";
5. Under "Blocked senders and domains" click "+Add";
6. Type "INSERT DOMAIN HERE";
7. Press 'Enter';
8. Click "Save" at the bottom of the list.

You should paste in the last and penultimate words in the address, for example if the domain was called lowlife.spammer.com, then you'd just need to paste "spammer.com". This way it does not matter what combination of characters that the scumbag puts in front of or just after the '@', the spam will get caught by the domain. For example, if you receive a spam email from the domain scumbag.spammer.com, it would still be blocked However, a spam email from lowlife.spammer.net or lowlife.scumbag,com would not be blocked and would need separate entries.

You can check it has saved the domain by starting to type it into the search bar on the right and it should appear even before you have typed it out in full.

Even better, unlike rules, which only apply to the inbox, the blocking function applies equally to junk email, which is where I presume this spam is going, and the result is to block it completely so you won't see it at all - not even in deleted or recoverable items. This is a positive change from previously, where I believe it just ensured that blocked senders and domains went into the junk folder.

I also recommend reporting the spam email to:

• Spam.org
• Spamhaus
• SpamCop.net

and they will variously contact the relevant ISPs and eventually the registrars and blocklist the IP/domains/URLs, which reduces the chances of receiving more in the future.

You can also find details of image hosting providers in the body of the email. You can contact them to ask them to remove the images. In particular, Imgur and Zupimages are very responsive in removing spam content. This also reduces the effectiveness of the spam.

I hope the above is of assistance.

Cheers,

TE