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").

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-29T21:08:23+00:00

    Well, so much for blocking by domain name. As of this morning the flood of messages are back in my junk mail folder because the sender changed. It's now like this:

    ChargeCard <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>; on behalf of; ChargeCard <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>; (ChargeCard via agenciaidea.es)

    and this:

    Elon Musk <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>; on behalf of; Elon Musk <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>; (Elon Musk via agenciaidea.es)

    Basically it's being sent "on behalf of" now from an ever-changing list of email addresses at hotmail.fr. I had to go into settings, add hotmail.fr to the safe senders list, then make a second rule to move messages from hotmail.fr to deleted items. Apologies to anyone trying to email me from hotmail.fr for something legitimate...

    Even the emails from hotmail.fr and hotmail.es appear to have agenciaidea.es in their header info, so you may be able to use just one rule to handle them all by using the rule condition of Message header includes agenciaidea.es. Would still have to whitelist the various domains but at least it would only delete the ones from agenciaidea.es and not others. Plus saves from having to create multiple rules.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-29T20:44:28+00:00

    If you are getting a ton of these in the spam/junk folder like I am, you can do this to automatically delete them and never see them.

    1. Go to your Settings -> Mail -> Junk email and add agenciaidea.es as a safe sender/domain.
    2. Then go to Settings -> Mail -> Rules and create a rule with condition Message header includes agenciaidea.es and action Delete.

    (found these directions in a post by Zachary.W at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/block-spamphishing-coming-from-agenciaideaes/e2f8b89d-f133-4028-ba4b-ee105005e8e1)

    The reason for adding the domain to the safe senders list is because the rules don't get processed against emails that are already in the Junk folder.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-29T19:35:02+00:00

    They go into your junk mail folder...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-29T19:17:10+00:00

    I received them in the junk but I reported them as phishing and they stopped. Log into outlook from a pc not from the app on your smartphone and report tlone of the email as phishing. For me it worked.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-29T17:52:12+00:00

    Hi, report pishing, and spams vanish :)

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