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.

  • RJM_50B
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    11 months ago

    Many people use their old Hotmail account as a Burner spam dumping spot for businesses and websites they don’t want to give their current email address.

    That makes it hard for them to implement a spam filter, when so many people are intentionally sending spam to that old account and never checking it.