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Old 08-09-2017, 21:29   #4
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Re: Where's all my spam gone?

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Originally Posted by doreen12 View Post
oh, I would wish that the same happens to me. It looks like that you have a spam filter. I am just curious how to switch on this spam filter...
I haven't switched anything on or changed anything. I was getting loads of spam (mostly spoofed to look like they came from my own account) and now I'm not, just 1 or 2 a day for the last week from random email addresses. Most of it was going into my junk folder as opposed to the Inbox. If you hover your mouse pointer over the message titles in your junk folder it will display what looks like the sender's address. In fact it all to often isn't that and it can be made to read your own email address. I believe this was done to fool spam filters and of the spam I was getting, about 80% was made to look like it came from my own account. ALL of this has stopped which leads me to think MS have done something about that problem in particular rather than spam itself.

If you are getting spam in your Inbox you can set 'rules' which allow you to pick common words used in the titles of spam message and divert any mail which contains those words to your junk folder or delete folder. If you look on YouTube for Hotmail inbox rules or something similar you'll find some examples of how to set them. This only works for spam which is actually getting into your Inbox and obviously you need to select words which aren't going to occur in your ordinary mail headings. These might include stuff related to gambling, casinos, dating, PPI claims and a plethora of 'adult' words for example.

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