Duluge of SPAM from "agenciaidea.es"

Anonymous
2024-10-15T13:50:35+00:00

After a fairly quiet six months-or-so, I am suddenly getting a flood of SPAM from "******@agenciaidea.es".

I am talking around 50-per-day, and sometimes in batches of several within a few minutes.

They all have the same format, with purple writing at the top and the "advert" appearing as an image below.

Also, the "To:..." is never my email address, but a Hotmail address with a load of random letters (e.g. "******@hotmail.com").

Help!

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T18:47:33+00:00

    I think I discovered the reason that these are not at least going to Junk. I found the email address in my Safe Senders List. I am very careful about handling emails from unknown senders and I blocked this address as soon as it showed up. My only guess is that there is something embedded in these messages that puts the address in the Safe Senders List.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T18:29:12+00:00

    Thanks for the tip, but it didn't work for me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T17:52:16+00:00

    I had the same issue. I use outlook online and was able to select one of the items in my spam and flagged it for phishing. This blocked the email address, and I haven't gotten any overnight since doing so and I usually wake up to dozens of these emails, so I think it worked!

    Thanks to all for the discussion and ideas. I just did this for the last batch of 10 I received. We'll see what happens.

    LET'S RETHINK THIS ISSUE - Change our vision from a M/S Outlook systemwide spam assault to a Denial of Service (DoS) or since there are multiple IP addresses being used to send this traffic, consider this a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the various servers that are affected with the daily deluge. For those not familiar with the definition of a DoS/DDoS here is a link to Cloudflare - definition of DoS/DDoS.

    Our ISP servers have to be slowed down somewhat just by the volume of trash each email receives. And I'm sure it's not much different with the M/S worldwide system.

    Just a thought?! John

    P.S. - The domain "agenciaidea.es" is the email domain to the Spanish website Agencia de Innovacion Desarrollo de Andalucia (IDEA)

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    www.juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/idea.html

    Did you email this organization about the use of their email address? Of course, the sender may be spoofing this address.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T16:53:35+00:00

    Hello! Same problem here. Loads of spam every day! I will have my storage capacity over unless I empty the trush bin every day! Microsoft must do something for us! It has become a burden we can't get away from. Any suggestion?

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T16:42:51+00:00

    I tried this, setting one as Phishing and then emptied the folder and it has not filled back up (yet) with these we are all complaining about.

    Thanks for the tip.

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