Spam Fighter Retiring

JeffreyTimothyValerie-8472 41 Reputation points
2026-06-12T22:00:00.62+00:00

I got an email in my junk mail from "******@hotmail.com" which claimed that "Spam Fighters Program will be officially retired on July 1st 2026" and that the service is thanking everyone for "helping us improve our filtering systems.

I would like to say that if my experience has shone quite a different light, I could say that things might be getting worse.

I have been getting post that has been coming into my inbox that I have not authorised to be there, nor have I accepted any subscription or cookies, so in my view no, nothing seems to have been learnt from any of the data and information that has been submitted.

Not if post that I have submitted as safe sometimes is recalled to your "Spam Fighters Program" and those that are marked Spam and reported as Phishing continues to reappear in bucket loads each day, every day.

I know I will get a feeble "for me" an excuse of why all can't work as users should expect, even for me and others who have a subscription, then other posts will say "how the future will be" when the future was yesterday.

The only other reason that that email came to my junk mail, is that it is also a Phishing email.

I hope whoever reads this, understand my frustration.

It doesn't matter which tag I may use, because is a multi-tag issue.

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MUSTAFA SALAH 1,710 Reputation points
2026-06-13T12:05:34.9666667+00:00
  • There is no widely recognized, user-facing “Spam Fighters Program” announcement that would be emailed from a random Hotmail address.
  • Your frustration is valid and what you are seeing can happen even with good filtering.
  • What you should do with that email: Mark it as Phishing --> Delete it + report it to Microsoft/Outlook abuse reporting

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