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Excessive Spam, Junk Mail from "geeksquad" email address?
Zeromus msn_schillman22 Mick65 Gunnerb52
Zeromus It appears that you are doing all the right things: Block & Safe Sender & Domain. However,
if you all are receiving massive spam from the Geek Squad specifically, I suggest the following:
Option 1: Unsubscribe to general information & offers (geeksquad@emailinfo.geeksquad.com) only. The unsubscribe link is located at the bottom of the email. It may take several days before your email is removed from the distribution list.
The receipts, invoices, deliveries, and reminder emails from BestBuy are delivered under a separate domain bestbuyinfo@emailinfo.bestbuy.com. Unfortunately, BestBuy's offers, deals, and sales ads contain the same email address. (Shame on BestBuy.) And, they send offer emails 5 out of 7 days per week. The good news is if the offer email goes to the Junk Folder and is kept for 30 days before deletion. So you have a safety net, in case, you have a need for a time-specific Deal.
Option 2: Also, there are some "Unsubscribe My Email" apps that you can look into. I have not used them personally but you can check out:
Option 3. Create two Outlook Online Rules & Reorder the Rules
Outlook Online Rule 1:
For example, you can a create rule to keep BestBuy emails based on keywords in the Subject line. You can mark the message as Important as shown in the image below. Optionally, you can Pin to message to the top since these emails are time-sensitive.
Rule #2: Mark & Send BestBuy offers to Junk Email Folder
All other emails from BestBuy are moved to the Junk Email Folder for 30 days before it is deleted. Still yet, you will have at least 20 emails in the Junk folder from BestBuy each month.
Not shown in the image below, add another action, Subject line Excludes: list the same keywords from the first rule.
Last Action and the most important
You must "reorder" the two rules to ensure the rules work properly. You must run the Keep rule first. See the image below. Again, do not skip this step.
Note: Make sure you don't have any other rules or Sweep rules relating to BestBuy email. You don't want to apply any other rules.
I hope you found this information helpful.
Teresa Cyrus
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I don't know if unsubscribing is a good option. Most of these emails have nothing to do with Best Buy products or services. I doubt it is a legit email and unsubscribing might confirm to the email bot that it is a valid email address and the emails will increase. Though at this point getting almost 2 dozen a day I can't imagine how many more they will send.
The junk folder option doesn't work. I have flagged all the emails as junk and they do not go to junk. I have flagged every configuration of the domain name to be blocked and it still makes it through. I have included a screenshot of 2 emails I have received with the geeksquad domain.
I haven't created a rule yet but that is kind of a cop-out option. It still shows up but is put in a folder. I suppose I can try it and see if it works but with these emails bypassing every other method I do not have high hopes of a rule sending them to a folder will work.
Sign in to your Microsoft account and check what apps have access to your account - remove these permissions for apps you don't trust.
Set Edge and Bing browsers by default.
It's just that the Chrome extensions you agree to cause a workaround.
Write what you think?Deleted I keep a very tight reign on what apps have permission to my logins. I generally only have around a dozen or so apps that have permission and ones that I do not use I remove. If I have the need for them later I will redo permissions.
I don't know what Edge and Bing have to do with outlook but I have reinstalled them all recently with a recent reload. Chrome I have 3 addons allowed. Ad Blocker, Clever (an app my kid uses at her school where they do lessons through) and Grammarly.
I created a rule that moved all geeksquad emails to another folder and that works. That tells me that outlook is able to differentiate the emails from everything else. So I do not know why tagging geeksquad as junk mail and blocking it does not work. It seems more like someone got a payoff and snuck some code in to allow all this junk mail to filter through. At the very least with how many people must be flagging geeksquad as junk you would think Microsoft filters would flag it as junk.
Best buy email still get through. I do not think Best Buy uses geeksquad as an email domain or doesn't use it anymore. I have not seen any legitimate emails from Best Buy with geeksquad domain. I even looked at some of my really old emails from best buy from when I bought items from there and had something repaired there and none of them had geeksquad domain.
I am pretty sure it is something on Microsoft side that is allowing these emails to make it through. I do not know why junk or blocking does not stop these geeksquad emails.- Thank you for your reply.
Best regards