Junk Emails Suddenly going to Inbox Feb 2023

Anonymous
2023-02-20T11:38:13+00:00

Hi, I had my hotmail account for over 20 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 365. I've tried everything at this point, from rules to flagging wit no help. Has anyone experienced the same? Microsoft doesnt seem to have a customer service team to help?

Many thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-02-20T18:31:03+00:00

    Same thing happened to me since 1:15am EST on 2/20/23 - tons of junk mail in my inbox. But there's still tons of junkmail going into my junk mailbox, too. Something is definitely wrong. Over 500 of us have tagged it as "I'm having the same issue" in the past few hours.

    Maybe related, back in October a lot of emails from contacts started going into junk mail; no matter what I do to tag those addresses as safe senders, it has kept happening. So screening my junk mail has now become a time wasting task each day. I've been on hotmail forever, I guess this is truly the sign that it's time to change emails and get used to gmail . . .

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-02-20T18:27:52+00:00

    I am experiencing the same issue. I could have written this post. I’ve had the same email for 25 years.

    Ugh.

    If so many of us have the same issues, I hope they’re working on it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-20T18:19:41+00:00

    We received that exact email. It is a very good spoofed email. If you hover over the box called "Secure my account", you'll see it goes to some unknown hotmail account...not Microsoft.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-20T18:16:56+00:00

    Maybe, just maybe there are people at Microsoft reading these threads and they read this one and decided they had a problem. Not to mention over 160 frustrated and angry customers. Last 2 junk emails to get in my inbox were half an hour ago. Maybe they're working on the problem, we can all hope.

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