What’s with all the spam lately in Outlook.

<p>If you go to the feedback hub and click on "Microsoft Community" you will find thread after thread after thread of people truly disgusted with spam in Outlook. &nbsp;Try searching Outlook spam on twitter…there are some mad people there too.</p>
<p>Personally, for me I was getting about 200 of the filthiest spam emails I think I’ve ever received and could not figure out why. &nbsp;After doing about two weeks of research and investigation I found out mine was related to a Skype account that I didn’t sign up for. &nbsp;I hardly ever got spam with my hotmail account, and don’t get any with my three google accounts. &nbsp;But when I was migrated to the "new" Outlook Mail a couple of months ago, the spam I started receiving was off the charts! &nbsp; I happen to stumble on a link to a Skype Forum article and it ended up solving most of my problem. &nbsp;Here is how: &nbsp;I didn’t realize that with the migration to the "new" Outlook Mail that Skype came with it by default. &nbsp;Every time you sign into Outlook Mail it automatically signs you into a Skype account. &nbsp; After reading that article I clicked on the Skype icon in Outlook Mail and much to my surprise there were my contacts from WLM that I hadn’t seen since they killed it in 2013! &nbsp;It was also showing me as available. &nbsp;Smh! &nbsp; &nbsp;Here I am showing available with a Skype account I didn’t even know I had. &nbsp;Checking through the contacts there (that didn’t match my contacts in the People app btw) I found an unknown contact which I came to find out was a porn spammer from Skype (there were several threads in the Skype Forums on this too). &nbsp; To make a long story short…I blocked and removed that unknown contact and my spam decreased from approx. 200 per day to less than 20. &nbsp;How that person got added to my contact list in the Skype account that I didn’t even know I had, I have no idea. &nbsp; I never migrated or associated my WLM with Skype when Microsoft killed WLM. &nbsp;I have never signed up for a Skype account either. &nbsp;But evidently I have one now thanks to the default with the "new" Outlook Mail…thanks a lot Microsoft for that headache! &nbsp; Anyway I hope this helps someone else to be aware and possibly check to see if this is causing your spam problem. &nbsp;It definitely at least made my Outlook account more manageable.</p>