spam from <preview@***> where the *** part changes each time

My last "Preview" spam mail was about October 1, and I was getting 25-50 per day. It stopped radically and I must assume that Microsoft did something to stop it, so let's cheer them on, if but for a moment. It's been nice to have a break from the spam. It does seem to be coming back though, albeit slowly. Hopefully Microsoft can find a solution to identify this blatant spam and stop it before it clogs up our spam boxes. But I think it's a great sign that the "Preview" thing has stopped. Ideally they could give us keywords to block, that's simple technology and I can't even begin to understand why that is not available.

Receiving email (and spam) has nothing to do with the geographical place where you are.

The explanation is that there was a period of about a week or so, when all these "preview@" and "renew@" spam stopped. The spammers are now coming back full vengeance, altering the sender email ever so slightly to pass through Outlook's spam filter again.

You must have traveled during that week.

Those prefix names are apparently no longer used by spammers but as you wrote, there are new ones. They appear to be 1 or 1 letters off and not consistently the same

Once they are consistently the same I hope Microsoft addresses those emails. I live in USA but I am frequently in Spain and I got lots of spam emails there.

As of September - I receive hundreds of preview@ emails into my junk folder.

I am doing my due diligence by blocking AND THEN reporting every single email. There needs to be a better way.

This is another nail in the Outlook coffin, pushing me to making my GMAIL my primary account - this summer I was locked out of my outlook as I was in Europe and the security questions blocked my access to my account. No access to all my travel information.

Microsoft is preview. I stopped using MSN and Bing home page and spam from preview slows. When I go to Bing home page even with out clicking anything my spam from preview goes thru the roof. Report Microsoft to the FEDs like I did and forward all Preview junk email to the CEO of Microsoft, address is on the web wiki. Report Micro soft to the FEDS.