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A fake email address is connected to my legit email address and each time someone uses my actual email address it send a reply that emails cannot be delivered. f
Managing personal Outlook.com account settings, security, and privacy
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You should also log into https://account.live.com/activity to see if there are any unrecognized but successful logins. If there are, you need to protect your account by changing your password to something long, complex and completely unique - never reuse passwords. Plus, you should add multifactor authentication or passkeys.
Hi. I'm Brian and I'll try to help.
This is indicative of an account that may have been compromised. Please log into https://account.live.com/names/manage to make sure that the only addresses there are ones you control. Also check https://outlook.live.com/mail/options/mail/forwarding to make sure there is no unrecognized forwarding address defined. Finally check to make sure there isn't a forwarding rule you didn't create.
The 'Fake' email address does not appear in any list and when the I try to log in to it in Outlook it says the account doesn't exist and yet is on a list when I Start to type my email address to send an email. The beginning of my actual email address starts with the same word. There is a possibility that the unknown address goes back to an old Skype account but there seems to be no way of checking
If you are being told that the address doesn't exist when you try to log into it, then how are you trying to send mail, since you cannot log in?
Just found the forwarding area and yes it has that address for 'forwarding' I've turned that off and so far a quick check sending an email to myself has stopped the problem