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"Ukranian Girls" Scam Always Getting Through Spam Filter No Matter How Many Times I Report Emails
I'm having the same issue. The problem with the email filters is there are a very large number of permutations of the "Ukraine/Ukrainian" words they are using. It's not just a font change, they are using different characters to spell out the word. If you were to paste the word in a text editor as plain text, it would show exactly as in the subject. This means there are hundreds of different combinations that can be used to get around any custom filters.
Here are just 2 examples in plain text:
𝑈𝒌𝓻𝒂𝒊𝓷𝓲𝓪𝑛
𝑈𝒌𝑟𝘢𝘪𝑛𝒊𝑎𝘯
Hashim305 thanks leon. Uninstall and reinstall worked for a while but now they're back, but not nearly as many. Twenty + years with Hotmail, I guess it's time to move to Gmail.
All the best
- Hashim305Aug 06, 2023Copper Contributor
tom_hogan1hotmailcom All these spam emails are coming from outlook.com email addresses as well.