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Excessive Spam, Junk Mail from "geeksquad" email address?
Zeromus Same problem. Now I am receiving hundreds of emails every day and, no matter what I try, Hotmail (or Outlook) is not blocking them. I cannot send emails from the account; the system is giving me an error message: "There was an error sending your message". The account is totally useless!
I just started getting 40-50 @emailinfo.geeksquad.com spam emails a day starting yesterday. I've had my hotmail account for over 17 years and this is the first time I have been hit so hard by spam and I cannot stop it. I've tried EVERYTHING mentioned on this board including creating rules, set up spam blocks, set rules on both the web side and the Outlook client side, etc., etc., etc. and nothing works to stop the spam. I was an email administrator for two large corporations, and more recently a large hospital chain, so I'm familiar with email, smtp, spam appliances, firewall rules, etc. Obviously Microsoft is the problem, they are allowing the spam to come through, and their spam rules are not working - something is really wrong with this, it's almost like someone on the Microsoft messaging team was paid to "remove" the spam filter for this address periodically.
Amen! Shadowtrax
I am still dealing with this, hour after hour day after day, months later. You are much more knowledgeable than I am. I started to migrate my email to a GMAIL account, but, after all these years this is not simple. I just wish there was some type of official response Microsoft would give instead of workarounds. Um, how about you just take care of it. And if you can't, say so.
