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.
Its not only spam. Also scam and getting attacked by bots to get access. I don’t really use the email anymore but got some old accounts made with it… had to put up the 2 step verification to keep it safe. For now
Honestly, 2FA is always a smart idea especially on email since it’s the keystone to everything on the internet, really. But as for attack bots, it’s not just Microsoft, Google’s accounts are constantly being bombarded too, it’s ridiculous
But that’s how Aron Ralston’s mother found him, he told no one he was going 6 hours away for an 8 hour day hike on April 26, 2003. She was in Englewood Colorado May 1st answering the security questions to his email account, used his email to reset his bank account password, and found out his last purchase was at a grocery store in Moab Utah. She sent search & rescue to that location where they found his red Toyota truck was found 2 hour drive away near Blue-John Canyon National Park, sent up a rescue helicopter and he was lucky to be seen after amputating his arm to get out of the crevice 5 days after he was pinned under that 800lb boulder. Even a helicopter with a FLIR thermal camera likely would have never found him in that narrow crevice under a boulder.