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.
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.