Overwhelmed by onmicrosoft.com SPAM EMAILS

Microsoft has to decide how to allocate programming and other resources to tackle any problem. This is not an insignificant issue to address. They need additional pressure to determine this is worth fixing.

Start reporting these spam emails to RBL systems (Spamhaus, Mailspike, Abusix, and Spamcop).

Maybe just pick one, and stick to it, and recommend to others to use that one RBL to hopefully centralize the impact.

Can you imagine how quickly MS would address this if they got blacklisted?

Yes, the cynic in me shouts, MS will just pick up the phone and call the RBL and in their own special, way, suggest that the RBL be removed....

But who knows, maybe one of these RBL's is less susceptible to MS strong arming.

"While it's not possible to completely eliminate spam..."

Yep. The excuse to not do anything about spam.

Of course, there is one way to eliminate most spam: cancel EVERY 'onmicrosoft' account!!!! Yes, those with those accounts can get much better service through FREE email clients, for example mail.com is splendid! I have my private domain emails forwarded there with filters that work with about 97% effectiveness while Microsoft, well, I tried blocking filters with about a 97% non-success rate.

Having a private URL domain is supposed to be a supereb guard against spam emails. For over 17 years using the FREE Thunderbird client, spam emails showed up about two times a month.

Har har, with Microsoft Outlook I get that in 18 minutes!

And to think we have to do all the work in going through and deleting spam emails that should have been trashed automatically by the plethora of filters.

"You get what you pay for!" FREE Thunderbird, costs nothing....very few spams. Microsoft, pay big time....big time loads of spam.

Yep, getting the money's wprtj!

I guess I don't understand the terminology of 'local or online'. I am NOT using the Microsoft Office version of Outlook, this is from Outlook Web Access, the Outlook.com web site.

I have tried blocking by 'sender's address includes' and have used both 'OnMicrosoft.com' and '.OnMicrosoft.com' with a preceding period. I believe Microsoft has code to bypass deleting these emails, because it works with many other domains. I know the rules work, just not for this domain.

I'm hoping to generate enough community concern that Microsoft will actually fix this and allow us to block everything coming from this domain. Let's shame them into doing the right thing. It's their product and they and ONLY they have control of it. For the sake of their reputation, they need to correct this widespread problem.

I've reported all these i get to abuse @ outlook and abuse @ microsoft. I guess i'll add cdoccm @ microsoft too now.

But yeah, the best way is to just block anything from onmicrosoft.com. Unfortunately, some email clients, web or standalone, don't always have the option to filter based on whats in the header or to block entire domain. they usually only let you do it by account, which as we've seen, the spammers just randomize the user, e.g. Wilkins0214, which is an example from a phishing email sent today.

Those abuse address get the full header but no one seems to look into them, makes you wonder why, since most MS 'support' is located in a particular place it goes to figure most of these spammers are from the same place I'd bet on a percentage scale.

Things to think about when your company decides to engage with 'support' teams in shady places.

I have tried blocking the emails and suspending them also noting works and it is very frustrating to get 50 a day my email is basically spam mail. please stop them from being sent.