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.
My inbox has seen an increase in spam in 2023 but I always use the report functions for phishing, and Spam. It works until the spammers work around it and I’ll report it again.
For stuff it completely misses, I always create rules that put messages either in “Junk mail” or Trash depending on what it is. I’ve been managing my stuff pretty well.
This all assumes you are willing and able to put in a few minutes periodically to adjust filters and report stuff.
I do the same thing. So far it does the trick. People just don’t want to adjust rules and settings these days.
Or may not even know how. Took me a little bit my first time around but now its a breeze.