I believe Microsoft is working with spammers. I have a public facing Outlook email for a specific reason. Naturally, I get a lot of junk mail in that account. Whenever I create a "rule" to filter out junk, within a very short period of time, sometimes less than an hour, spam appears set to go around that filter.
For example, I get some spam looking to get me to sign up for Obamacare plans. I create a new rule that says all emails with the text "Obamacare" in the subject go to the junk folder.
Later that day, I will get an email with the subject "O.b.a.m.a.c.a.r.e." However, that often doesn't happen when I don't create the filter.
Many such examples.
Of course, the email comes from [email protected] so blocking the sender does no good.
When you unsubscribe they just hand your info to somebody else and they do the same thing.....They know it's impossible to unsubscribe to everyone they sell your info to. Plus a lot of them just ignore the unsubscribe....you will be brainwashed or else!!!!
That would not surprise me at all.
So, it's possible to see the delivery status of an email using certain software.
If a scammer sees their messages going to junk, they may have scripts set up to try to take what you are blocking based off of, and then modify their message accordingly. Spam is a numbers game, and automation makes it a much easier game. Plus scams constantly evolve with technology, they probably have a team dedicated to avoiding spam filters. Otherwise they won't make their money, and they do male a surprising amount of money, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Should I just delete it, report it as junk, or move it to the junk folder?
I would probably report as junk and move to junk folder too.
Believe it or not, domains and email addresses have trust scores associated with them, and the score goes down a bit after each report until eventually the email just gets delivered to spam automagically.
Protonmail does a great job filtering for me it sounds like. I don’t get anything like that
Use smoremail.com or mailbait.info for the e-mail addresses that get through. If multiple spam messages come from a specific domain, look up the domain on whois.com and report to the domain registrar. May not stop them all, but fun to fight back a little.
It's not that Microsoft is working with spammers but that people designing spam filters are also spammers. Met a guy like that. They basically work both angles
Not that I had a lot of faith in humanity, but that takes the wind out of my sails.
If it makes you feel Vetter that guy was working for Yahoo 13 Yeats ago. so you are used to it already hehe
I'm not surprised.
Too-big-to-fail tech giants like Microsoft are not in the business of making things better.
Back in the old days, an OS update would actually strengthen the software, fix bugs, reduce load times, etc.
Now, 99.999% of their effort goes into spying on us, finding new ways to exploit our privacy, and sell us shit that we don't need.