Clearing my hotmail inbox from spam

amandstu · 07-03-2025 06:21PM #1

I had a nice email from a spammer trying to blackmail me into (whatever) and that they have hacked the email password etc etc.

The upshot is that they sporadically send me thousands of emails ("message undeliverable ") that I have to delete painfully 50 at a time.

It Is a hotmail account.Is there a way to do this more efficiently?

I don't want to change the password unless I have to.

Spear · 07-03-2025 06:25PM

That's not what's happening. Your email address is being falsified as the sender on a spam run, so you get the bounced message undeliverables back.

There's nothing to indicate your account is compromised and changing your password will do nothing whatsoever.

Gloomtastic! · 07-03-2025 06:26PM

Changing the password is the easiest way to sort the problem. Why would you not want to change it if it saves you all this hassle?

Flinty997 · 07-03-2025 06:57PM

Create a rule to move the emails out of your inbox.

Esel · 07-03-2025 07:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123241935#Comment_123241935

Read the post above yours.

Changing the password would have no effect.

amandstu · 07-03-2025 07:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123241935#Comment_123241935

Well I anticipate that if they hacked my password they will probably hack it again since I hate setting difficult passwords.(I do have a few difficult ones I could press into service again -the old eircom.net password for example)

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There Is no sensitive information in those emails but if their disruption is on a loop I suppose I may have to do something.

amandstu · 07-03-2025 07:25PM

Good Idea.A bit of a generic subject line though .

It can be useful if one of your own emails doesn't get through(I would have to search for the notification in the trash folder)

amandstu · 07-03-2025 07:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123241930#Comment_123241930

Except the spammer/hacker did know my password.The wrote it in the email.

Spear · 07-03-2025 07:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123242115#Comment_123242115

No, they just get them from the various leaked lists:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

and then spam them out to catch the few that re-use passwords or never change them

Flinty997 · 07-03-2025 07:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123242097#Comment_123242097

Maybe stop using computers

Esel · 07-03-2025 08:46PM

Password123?

amandstu · 07-03-2025 08:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123242317#Comment_123242317

Not quite.

amandstu · 07-03-2025 08:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123242119#Comment_123242119

Avast said it was leaked (as well as another email address I have)

Maybe time to change my passwords.

Esel · 07-03-2025 09:03PM

Always have a unique, strong password for each site.

You should look into using as Password Manager.

beachhead · 08-03-2025 06:12AM

Download duckduck.com as your browser and use their email spam blocker.It might work after the fact of your email being hacked.Change p/w

Esel · 08-03-2025 05:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123243262#Comment_123243262

^^^^

https://duckduckgo.com

Clearing my hotmail inbox from spam

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