outfoxing Hotmail

[chowderman]

had an @outlook.com email since last century . . . it was getting so much spam I finally decided it had to go.
didn't care for the idea - it was <name>@hotmail.com - easy to remember, easy for other folks to use . . .

so I "closed" the account - after acknowledging 20-30 WARNINGs that all my entire Microsoft life would be erased/deleted. heh, I liked that part . .
per Hotmail the account would remain open, but inactive, for 6(?) weeks. I could bring it back from the dead by logging in anytime prior to the end of days....

about a month after it was slated to be permanently closed/gone/out of existence I got curious and logged in.
the account was still there. there was no spam/no email at all after the 'dead date.'
about a month later, it is still spam free . . .

Outlook has statements like "Messages in Spam/Deleted will evaporate after (?)30 days."
not to be believed - they don't - one account has over 1k emails in Deleted dating back about a year.

so, ymmv - but this appears to be one way to get the spammers out of your life . . .

 

[KickerM]

I’ve had Hotmail accounts since the 90s and I have one for all my spam/sign up accounts, win this win that, free this that…and one account for business and it amazes me that the one that I only give out to legitimate companies rarely gets spam but the one that my social media accounts use is sold multiple times a day….