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Excessive Spam, Junk Mail from "geeksquad" email address?
I tried that a few months ago but I will try it again. I kind of gave up on this until others have been replying they have the same issue. I just took it as just more junk mail and ignored it. Lately I have gone through and been unsubscribing for all the legit emails I get from signing up for things. But the junk keeps coming.
When you say you need to log into the microsoft account and block it from there, do you mean https://outlook.live.com or https://account.microsoft.com/services/microsoft365
Anyone still having the problem? Creating a rule would send the emails to a folder and get them out of the way but recently those emails have seemed to disappear. They are not being sent to the junk folder or that folder I set up to catch all the geeksquad emails. Did Microsoft finally crack down? It's just weird that they all disappeared.
I went from multiple emails a day from geeksquad to 0 for the week. Something changed.
The answer why you keep getting emails from geeksquad in your inbox after adding the previous email address to the junk list is simple.
Note the email has an address like:
j1374gg5PvYF <email address removed for privacy reasons> not the letters j1374gg5PvYF that is part of the spammer email address.
so after blocking that email address the next email will be something like:
f1424gk6UbUT <email address removed for privacy reasons> and whala you got another spam in your inbox.
- Mine seem to come through on my mobile device, but if I leave them they end up disappearing. I believe it happens when it syncs to the webmail. Hopefully it has been taken care of. The mobile app people sent me back to the web people, who sent me to mobile people in the first place. So I have given up for now
