Suddenly lots of spam

[jonwm]

Evening all.

I use a 365 account for home / family and pay yearly for it.
It's on my Hotmail account I've had for many years (first [e-mail] UK) all of a sudden I'm getting 40+ emails of spam a day, most are "shipment notification" or credits for betting.
They are feeding into my junk folder but over the years I've never been bombarded like now, it's been a few weeks now, can't think of anything purchased dodgy and entered email address etc.
Is there anything I can do to stop it?

[Ezra]

V interested in this as exactly same happened to me - started about 2-3 months ago. I now get about 30 emails each day, all to spam, mostly slots/betting promos and similar stuff. Can't think what I did that prompted the onslaught but would love to hear how to stop them.

[jamesbilluk]

No help I’m afraid, but I’ve also been getting the same recently. I have a Hotmail account.

None are going into my spam for some reason .

[geoffd]

You can try reporting them as phishing, sometimes this helps.

[WY86]

Someone you bought from either sold or got hacked for their data. is most likely the reason behind a sudden increase, that or you been on dodgy adult sites.

[Jamescrs]

Doesn't help but I have a Hotmail.com email address and i'm getting the same, loads about Solar panels (I have never had the slightest interest in solar panels) and the other is claiming there are parcels awaiting me to authorise delivery, I keep labeling them Spam but I must get at least 2-3 of these emails a day currently.

I've had the email address for 20 years probably.

[Hoofy]

Ditto for the last 6 months. Bit annoying.