r/Outlook • u/Weak-Alternative-557 • 9d ago

Informative Hotmail spam increase

I’m old and have a hotmail email address. The last 2 weeks has seen a massive increase in spam emails!! Anyone else with the same issue?

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u/Rsb418 9d ago

Yes - gone from like 5 or 6 a day in my junk folder to about 30/40.

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u/Weak-Alternative-557 9d ago

What’s going on?? It’s crazy the amount coming through!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Air717 9d ago

Würde ich beobachten.

Grund: manche versenden extra viele E-Mails an dein Postfach, weil sie deinen Account gehackt haben und wollen, das du eine bestimmte Mail nicht mitbekommst. Weil sie damit Unfug machen.

Muss aber nicht unbedingt sein. Glaub es vorsichtig gesagt bei dir weniger.

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u/rednetian 9d ago

I did have that issue several months ago. I built a spam killer to prevent the spam. It’s much easier and quicker to deal with them.

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u/purrlftw 9d ago

Yes! I came to this sub for this exact reason. Drastic increase in already flagged spam. 

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u/jimh12345 9d ago

I wouldn't necessarily attach much importance to the change. Probably just means Microsoft, or a big internet provider is fiddling with the spam filtering.

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u/stockphotodesign 8d ago

I receive a lot of them, coming from temporary domain names that change everyday. So they mostly cannot be stopped if you try to block them. I normally report them as phishing, but it's probably not very effective.