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gchanut
Copper Contributor
Aug 28, 2024

phishing emails with only a name as the sender and no visible email address

There has been a sudden surge of spam or phishing emails flooding the main inbox, with only a name as the sender and no visible email address. Could this be due to a newly exploited vulnerability in the app or web app?

 

Clicking on the senders just expend a empty span and holding open the "contact" of it but once again its just the name, no address.

 

I have received like on of them every hour ....

 

 

On webapp from Edge :

literally says "No sender address" here, c'mon it's an email, how is this even permitted/supported/possible ??

  • FriendlySteve's avatar
    FriendlySteve
    Copper Contributor

    I am getting this to and there seems to be no fix. My email used to be quite nice with only emails I need coming. Now the last month or so I've been getting 10+ spam/phishing emails a day! Getting quite annoying hopefully someone sees this and makes a fix for it. Someone definitely found a way around their basic spam rules.

    • gchanut's avatar
      gchanut
      Copper Contributor
      It was so frustrating! Since then I've already migrated part of my daily-use accounts to a Proton email address, and the rest will follow as I need them. Congratulations, Microsoft, there's one less user for you 🙂

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