The amount of spam from Outlook.com is unreal

[MontyAC]

I must be lucky, I have 3 outlook email accounts and they don't get any spam.
But I get spam mail in my gmail accounts.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Clicking on "unsubscribe" is useful to the spammers as it tells them for sure your email is alive. They really appreciate it when you tell them they have a good email address they can hammer you with in the future...

There may be some legitimate sites where unsubscribe actually works but 99.9999999999999999% of the time it''s there way to know the email address is alive...


Brianb

 

[Ichinisan]

Clicking on "unsubscribe" is useful to the spammers as it tells them for sure your email is alive. They really appreciate it when you tell them they have a good email address they can hammer you with in the future...

There may be some legitimate sites where unsubscribe actually works but 99.9999999999999999% of the time it''s there way to know the email address is alive...


Brianb

If it's an entity that you shared your email address with voluntarily, they will almost always honor the unsubscribe option. It's the unsolicited spam that you should never try to "unsubscribe" from.

 

[Ketchup]

Clicking on "unsubscribe" is useful to the spammers as it tells them for sure your email is alive. They really appreciate it when you tell them they have a good email address they can hammer you with in the future...

There may be some legitimate sites where unsubscribe actually works but 99.9999999999999999% of the time it''s there way to know the email address is alive...


Brianb

99.9999999999999999%? Wow, really? You might want to get with the times (and this was two years ago).

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/rethinking-the-never-unsubscribe-rule-for-spam/?_r=0

Or delete the spam every day, up to you.

 

[$panky]

I tried to unsubscribe from legitimate sources, but it seems to work maybe half the time. It's much easier to just block them. Just go to your junk folder in outlook.com- select all and click on sweep. Then select block. It will block all senders in your junk folder. The spammers inevitably change addresses, but if you do it occasionally it keeps the spam down to a dull roar.

 

[Ketchup]

I tried to unsubscribe from legitimate sources, but it seems to work maybe half the time. It's much easier to just block them. Just go to your junk folder in outlook.com- select all and click on sweep. Then select block. It will block all senders in your junk folder. The spammers inevitably change addresses, but if you do it occasionally it keeps the spam down to a dull roar.

Junk mail that I have seen sends a new address every day. If you are getting mail from the same address every day, it is probably something you signed up for, or something you singed up for which signed you up for something else. These sites let you know they are going to do this, but in very fine print.