Unwanted Junk Mail

[sirlearie]

hi , hope someone can help ?
outlook hotmail system
i am getting a vast amount of junk email ( 60 -100 per day )
this is unsolicited & despite blocking & reporting as phishing , it keeps coming .
i have obviously inadvertently opened some site but i am fairly careful & certainly haven't knowingly gone into any dodgy site .
how can i get rid of these ? i have tried on a couple to follow their guide to unsubscribe but i fear this just opens me up to more .
any thoughts welcome .

[Old_Geezer]

Unless you change your account then there is little you can do. Most e-mail clients allow you to mark a particular sender as spam so you get rid of any further e-mails from them as it arrives. But it's a continual task for you.

[Old_Geezer]

Yes. Unless you can identify the sender as a respectable commercial concern that you have dealt with, any contact with them, such as unsubscribe, merely confirms that they have found an active e-mail account.

[Togo]

Do all these trap mails start with the same intro before the @.... and after that have different would be senders?

[davebro]

Get a new email & only give it to those you trust. 60-100 spam a day is absolutely ridiculous.

[The Builder]

I can imagine it seems to be the price you pay for having free email accounts, especially with Hotmail and Gmail. (Webmail)
Their usage is so huge that it becomes fairly easy for 'bots to mass-bomb for maximum coverage.

Emails linked to your service provider usually make it much harder for the bad guys to get through. (@btinternet for instance.)

I doubt this is what you want to hear, but possibly the best way to not suffer this is to have your own email & domain.
I've had my own .com for years. It's independent of my service provider, so it has to be hosted.
It costs around £50 a year though. The plus side is that their software is sophisticated enough to trap just about every piece of junk that tries to get through.
I doubt if I get more than 3 or 4 pieces of spam a year.

Not everyone with Webmail is hit with the amount you receive. You've just been very unlucky sirlearie.

[Togo]

If the majority of these spam mail shots all seem to be from the same sender or source, then try this.

On one of them RIGHT click in the field that highlights as you hover the cursor or in the identifying Ο on the left of the message header.
A box will drop down any you then hover over REPORT( not the report that is always there in the top actions bar) and where the sub menu opens by via the > symbol click on Report a Concern. A further menu will open that gives a check box of concerns. Perhaps the one that says Copyright infringement will cover it. If you do not pick a concern you will not be able to use the box that invites you to express you dissatisfaction. Hotmail is Microsoft's own and they will support you if the spam is not subscribed to by yourself. Tell them how upsetting it is and that the alternative is another email provider. I did exactly this for my next door neighbour only last week, and he has had no more spam from that source.

[Tuvok]

Never click unsubscribe - it confirms that your email address is live.

Try not to open them - again this may confirm a live address depending on how they have sent them.

If you can, turn on the no tracking option. That will stop your email system telling the sending system that the email has been received.

You could also try a mailwashing site - I used one years ago for a friend, your email is checked by it and only genuine ones reach your inbox.

[Buenchico]

Certainly worth a try . . .
https://www.mailwasher.net
but it might be worth considering moving to a different email service, with better spam-blocking buit into it.

[Togo]

A word to the wary and anyone who follows the walk through that I gave. A day after reporting the blizzard spam sender my neighbour had a very realistic email supposedly from Microsoft themselves asking him to confirm his password. It was fake and reported using the action bar facility along the top of the page. It may have been coincidence, but I suspect it may have been the spam bot owners who were trying to gain access to his desktop.

[Togo]

Just remembered. The spam began info@ and had a different "mail address for EVERY email. Blocking one using the conventional method was never going to stop them. A lot of the emails used well known retailers and business names, that were obviously meant to catch the unwary. Nightmare. I believe that it may not be confined to only Microsoft mail only. Gmail also suffers as do other providers.

[JimF]

You can block all incoming email from senders not in your safe senders list and/or from your Hotmail contacts:

https://www.cleanfox.io/blog/hotmail-outlook-tips/how-to-stop-receiving-spams-in-your-hotmail-inbox/