Not sure I’m in the right zone - please redirect me if there is a more suitable place to be!
The last eight months or so my Hotmail inbox has been smashed. Far more than ever ever before - about 50 spam a day. That’s not a lot by some standards but when you have to manually sort them out from your real email, it grows quite tiresome.
I don’t know what’s caused the sudden surge in spam, but more concerning is that Microsoft/Hotmail don’t appear to have a single goddamn thing to fight against it.
They have the “block all but safe senders” option, a “block these senders” option, and LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE. There appears to be absolutely zero automatic spam filtering option with the familiar levels (none, low, high, safe senders only). As a result, my good old Hotmail is becoming nigh unusable.
Am I overlooking something really obvious? Has this sudden flare-up of spam happened to anyone else in the last year? Is there some wonderful button I can press that will bring me back to the glory days of relatively spam-free existence?
Thanking you in advance.
Though a small warning with cleanups. If you truly did not sign up on some service, clicking anything in the mail (or even loading the pictures from the mail) would let the malicious source know their mails arrived and you opened them. I know several people that regretted doing this as they received tons more spam after violently and blindly unsubsribing from a lot of services.
It takes a lot of work but I keep mine up to date, if I get unsolicited mail I mark it as spam, mail that is normal but annoying will be unsubscribed or automatically marked as read