The amount of spam from Outlook.com is unreal

How does this happen that you just open a new account and you start receiving 5 spam emails everyday and everytime you opt out by clicking on the link at the bottom of the email, it asks me to enter my email again to confirm on their website, then I hit submit bu t they keep on sending spam

I dont want to have to clean my junk mail folder all the time I don't share my email on shady websites or anything like that.

The reason I use Outlook (ie. hotmail) is because it is able to synchorinize my contacts easily with my BlackBerry phone, like if I edit a contact on my phone, it is immediately also edited on my online contacts with Outlook.com, and vice versa

shall I just switch to another provider or what?

every gmail account I can think of is taken so gmail is not an option unless I want an email like myname273861928372613@gmail.com

 

You should never click links in emails unless you fully trust the person sending the mail, from your description you've actually confirmed your email and then sent it in a message back to them sharing your email with a dodgy website :confused Microsoft has never asked me for my email address other than at login.

If you receive email from one place too often just add them to your block list, I have received maybe one or two emails from outlook in the last couple of years noting improvements and security concerns but never spam so I'd guess that the emails are not from Microsoft.

Can you double check the senders address, it's written in (brackets.com) at the side of the company name on hotmail.

 

This is the latest one, I guess my mistake was to click on the "Click here to unsubscribe link"

6592876NTRNLGIN@ExpertSing.com

http://i40.tinypic.com/33zdz6s.jpg

 

Spam Avoidance 101:

Using Unsubscribe links confirm email addresses. "Sure, we will unsubscribe you from this one, and sign you up for these.

Unless it is a trustworthy company, don't touch those links. That was a mistake, yes.

You think you have it bad? I was targeted by some Android community douchebags for spam. I have 45! email filters in place with my Gmail account to keep (over 1000 pieces a day!) spam at bay.

 

Yup I could have cut my post down to "Don't click those.":-D

 

What exactly are you trying to say, Rikky?
That I type too much?
:mad

 

All moderators type exactly the right amount.:major

I pulled rank on me haha:-D

 

I actually get more spam from Yahoo than I do with Live/Outlook.

I just deleted probably 5000 spam emails from Yahoo (and I don't even use this account anymore) and deleted maybe 10? spam emails from both of my Live/Outlook email accounts.

 

I actually use three.

* The closely guarded account that only friends and family know.

* A "shopping" e-mail for recognized merchants such as eBay, Amazon, etc. (makes it easier and faster to find and retrieve shipping/invoice/returns data when I need to). This also makes it faster to scan my "friends and family" e-mails without having to deal with the constant ads from Office Depot, Staples and other places I order from.

* A "junk" e-mail for Craigslist and other sites I'm not sure about.

 

Hotmails spam filter is pretty good only 3-4 a month end up in the filter and none of my personal emails end up in there.

I have noticed an increase in spam when I started to use a common email for shopping though but the spookiest thing I've noticed about some respectable company's like Amazon or Ebay and various others is that I often receive them when I'm online:confused I could be offline all day and have no emails then 10-20 mins after googling a few things ect. A couple of emails pop up, long after the email refresh load.

Anyone else noticed this:confused

 

Maybe you had some 'poison cookies' left, I dunno.:confused

 

Same for me. I rarely get Spam in my Outlook account and I use it constantly. But I have a Yahoo account that I might log into every few months and it's amazing the amount of spam emails in that account. I just logged in there for the first time in 4 months and there was 534 spam emails and I don't use that account for anything.

 

It could be something as simple as e.g Amazon sending mail as soon as my IP pings on the sites server. A more insidious theory is that hotmail communicates a message to various mailing lists when I'm reading my mail increasing the likelyhood it'll get read. The problem is it doesn't do it all the time I've just noticed it becoming more common.

I've no idea how to find out if something like this does happen nor would I change my habits because of it but for me it would mean the internet just got a bit suckier.:-D

That's if it exists at all:confused Prolly me being paranoid.:cool