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Outlook not removing junk emails from one sender
I'm using Outlook 2016 on Windows 11. Beginning on Feb 17, my email spam folder started blowing up with about 40+ spam emails per day, all on "fake medical" topics -- attempting to sell cures for eve...
This is quite common with Microsoft Outlook 2016, where spammers change the sender address slightly, so blocking one won’t catch the next one.
Better would be to create a rule that filters by keywords or patterns (subject/body), or block the domain instead of just the email which is much more effective.
The sender address in this case is always exactly 'email address removed for privacy reasons' I created a rule, but it didn't help. I also created a server-side rule (on AOL/Yahoo), and that didn't help either.
I'm about to try blocking just the domain.