Junk Emails Suddenly going to Inbox Feb 2023

30 years and I never had an issue like this. As of this morning at 4am ALL of my junk emails are going to my inbox. No settings have been amended.

Since I've had this account for many years every 5 minutes I receive a junk in my inbox. Ive searched for a solution online but all I can see is for outlook and not outlook/hotmail . I've tried everything at this point, from rules to flagging wit no help. Has anyone experienced the same? Microsoft doesn't

seem to have a customer service team to help?

I have the same problem. Junk mail started showing up in my inbox. Just started today, February 20, 2023. I didn't change any settings on my account. I haven't seen any legitimate answers to the issue (just MS Techs saying to add rules and filters, which is unhelpful). Something fundamental to Outlook happened. I don't know if it is systemic, but it sure isn't anything I did.

I had the same issue. Seems MS has fixed it. Update from theVerge.com

Update February 20, 2:04 PM ET: According to Microsoft’s Service Status page the problem appears to be resolved. Our original story appears below.

Microsoft’s Outlook spam email filters are broken for many right now - The Verge

I am having the same issue, suddenly getting 15-20 junk emails a day. I've had my acct for over 15 years as well and haven't changed any settings. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one, but still pretty mad that this is happening.

I've been blocking them as they come in, but also went on DMAChoice.com and signed up to opt-out of marketing email. Although, they say it doesn't stop 100% of these emails, only those that use e-MPS, and it will take 2 months for the marketing emails to decrease in my inbox. There has to be a better solution!!! :(

My last junk email went to the junk email folder. That was 12:57 P.M. here in Alabama. It's currently 3:26 P.M. here in Alabama. The problem seems to be fixed, at least for me. Maybe Microsoft has people reading these threads and they read all our frustrated and angry posts and got to working on it. They may be fixing it by region, like U.S., Canada, Australia. Or they may be fixing it by time zone. I'm in Alabama which is in the central time zone.