Recently get many spams that would have gone to spam filder. In addition to things like "Ace Hardware" they will also have mixtures of weird (ASCII?) symbols in the message. When you mark them as spam they keep showing up bc there are ones with different symbols.
Solutions?
Start a new email address and slowly migrate to it.
First time in my life of almost 30 years online I have one older account I use for junk stuff when I don’t want to give out my family or financial email address that is getting blasted relentlessly as you describe with an incredible amount of junk mail that almost seems it’s coming from one source yet from all different companies and never ends up in junk mail. It started a month or more ago. Maybe two.
What’s weird is that it’s an outlook mailbox and it’s going to the primary folder and my primary mail going to the “other” folder.
I abbe had quite a few outlook email accounts and they are pretty good at staying clean except this one which is one I would give out to things like magazine companies, retail stores stuff like that.
I could care less as I have a lot of email addresses but curious as to what is taking place and how.
Never saw anything like it, relentless and many appear to be phishing emails. I never open them.
Sending to spam is pointless, blocking is also pointless. Right now I have over 1700 junk mails I sent to the folder and Microsoft deletes them every 10 days. IN the past Microsoft, by sending them to junk mail or reporting as fishing would be able to stop them but something different is at play here. There are so many it would be impossible to block and there is something different about how it is happening.
It's never bad idea to change things up and if I were you I would simply create a couple new emails, one for family, one for banking and one for other stuff. When done, dump that mailbox or ignore it or as I am doing, just watching it because I find interesting but no longer use it. I tired to count the number that came in yesterday and gave up, must be around 75 or 100, oh wait, that isnt yesterday, that is today so far and still 6+ hours in the day to go.
