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Excessive Spam, Junk Mail from "geeksquad" email address?
i took the advice to use outlook.com instead of the outlook app (which i prefer), which has helped *some*. the junk comes in waves. some are caught, some not. all are caught, all are not. most are caught, few are not. weird and i feel helpless.
Hi all, I recommend a great article:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/05/06/business-email-compromise-how-microsoft-is-combating-this-costly-threat/
- I get the same. Awoke to 14 in my inbox with sender hidden so it can’t be blocked really
- Thanks for your comment. I am getting the same basic twenty junk e-mails, over and over again, for the last month, most of them from the geek squad email address, which is "hidden". [some common email senders or address lines are Verizon, T-Mobile, Public Records, American Airlines, Male Elongator, Silver Singles, Home Depot, McAfee, etc.) These are mostly coming from that geek squad address. Sometimes they are caught, sometimes not. It goes in waves. Some days, most will be caught, some days most will not and some days it's in between. Tough to make sense of it. Anyway, good luck with your own issues.
HazelMoates Not sure what your exact problem is. Is it things you mark as junk are not going to junk or you are getting junk emails still? If emails you marked as junk are still getting through I really don't know what the fix is since they never really addressed it with a legit fix. One day Bestbuy email just stopped coming to my inbox and going to junk like they are supposed to do after I marked them as junk and blocked.
If it is just any kind of junk mail still coming to your inbox, sadly there really isn't an effective way to fix that. You can up the security to a higher blocking but then it will only allow emails on your contact list. I suppose you could create an email just to communicate with people on your contact list and another for everything else. But even emails that I have never used except for one thing still get junk.
What really concerns me is that sometimes I will get emails for someone else with a similar email address. It makes me concerned for security since what happens if they get mine for password resets, or other things that might allow them to access my account.