Some help with junk emails, please?

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   wildernessposted 7 years ago

   Lately (the past few weeks or months) I've been getting loads of junk emails from a slew of senders.  20,30, even 40 per day.  Typical senders:
   
   
   
   
   
   Nearly all of them have a "**" followed by something else as the common name of the sender.  Because the address changes with every email, the junk filter won't put them in the junk file, not until I tell it to, whereupon I get another from a different address?
   
   How can I "train" the filter to ignore this crap?  (Using Chrome and outlook)

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   Marisa Wrightposted 7 years ago

   You're using Outlook - what email service are you using?   Is there an option to change your settings, so the system auto-filters instead of waiting for you to teach it?
   
   I use gmail and its filter identifies spam with unerring accuracy.  I'm not sure how it does it, but I think it probably looks at things like nonsense names in email addresses. I very rarely have to mark anything as spam, or rescue anything from my junk folder.

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      wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I use MSN, and it's generally very good at catching spam.  These things are almost the only thing I'm getting that isn't shunted into the junk file.
      
      I notice now that my list of senders didn't come through.  They're all from nonsense addresses.  Things like <cdomzer_33 226@ powers.auxin.biz> (without the spaces) and every one is similar to this but different.

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         Marisa Wrightposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Looks familiar.  My gmail catches all those kinds of addresses, too. 
         
         To my surprise, I googled and found posts indicating that MSN doesn't even have a spam filter. !!??!!
         
         Outlook has different levels of spam filters though (or at least it did last time I used it, which is a while ago), what's yours set on?

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   Marisa Wrightposted 7 years ago

   This might help
   https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/say-goodbye-hotmail-spam/

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      wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      That looks interesting.  I'll definitely take a look at it tomorrow. 
      Thanks, Marisa!

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      wildernessposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Took your suggestion, Marisa, and it's working great.  It took a little work to get everything transferred over to gmail, and get it to open my msn account, but got it done and it's catching all the junk.
      
      Thanks again!

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         Marisa Wrightposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Glad it helped!

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