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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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Teresa_Cyrus : thank you for your insightful advice. There is most likely similar reply as this one, somewhere, regarding unsubscribe to spam/junk emails - many of these spammers are linking google search page to the unsubscribe at the bottom of their marketing emails, making it an additional futility to attempt to unsubscribe to something that you personally did not subscribe to in the first place.
Additionally, these geek-squad spams that have nothing to do with making a purchase at Best Buy need be brought to the attention of Best Buy.
- Teresa_CyrusNov 06, 2022MVP
Check my response about how I personally feel about junk email. I think you will get a kick out of it.
Re: Tons of spam being delivered! - Microsoft Community Hub
By the way, I agree with your response.
/Teresa