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Old 06-09-2017, 21:30   #2
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Re: Where's all my spam gone?

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Originally Posted by Osem View Post
I'd been getting 20-30 spam and phishing emails to my main Hotmail/Outlook account for ages. The usual garbage ranging from Russian brides and FaceBook message warnings to Peruvian impotence aids and offers to join the Labour Party at a discount rate Mostly the messages were spoofed to appear to come from my own account and nearly all of them were clearly linked to a couple of website addresses.

Anyway a few days ago they suddenly stopped. I'm still getting a couple of random ones a day but the plethora of spam and phishing messages linked to these 2 websites have just gone and I'm wondering why. Has MS suddenly done something about what I know has been a problem for years? I haven't seen anything online about this so just wondering if anyone here can explain this change for the better.

TIA as always.
I've had a similar experience with an old (very old) BTinternet account that used to get loads of spam, all of a sudden a month or two ago it went down by about 90%. I'm not entirely sure why the account still works as I haven't used BT internet since dial up days. Perhaps there's a new spam algorithm all the webmail services get to share ???.
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