Follow these guidelines to help lower your risk of receiving junk e-mail. Take advantage of the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook Office Outlook helps to mitigate the problem of spam by providing the Junk E-mail Filter, which automatically evaluates incoming messages and sends those identified as spam to the Junk E-mail folder.
Troubleshooting tips for IT admins Are you managing your IP and domain's sending reputation? Microsoft's SmartScreen® technology is designed to provide anti-spam filtering innovations for Outlook.com as well as other Microsoft products like Exchange Server, Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Mail.
Related Topics Mark email as junk or block senders in Outlook.com Filter junk email and spam in Outlook on the web Block senders from sending you email in Outlook on the web or Outlook.com If you're receiving unwanted email in the web version of Outlook, you can block the email addresses and domains you don't want to receive messages from.
Junk email and open relays Unsolicited commercial email is sometimes called junk mail or spam. The main reason that junk email continues to increase in volume is that it costs the person who sends it virtually nothing to send; in fact, the senders don't even have to send the junk email through the SMTP (outgoing) email server of their own ISP.
However, if scammers get your address there is some mischief they can get into. What can they do with your email address At a basic level, scammers getting your email address can result in a surge in spam messages to your inbox. More troubling is that some of that spam may actually be increasingly sophisticated scams or phishing.