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Question

Stopping spam with ??? as the sender and the subject

Jul 1, 2013 10:46AM PDT

I already know how to block a sender and how to create a rule with Outlook 2003, but these days I am getting 15-20 emails per day from an i p address in China (116.207.5.156 ) that all comes (with attachments!) from sender "???". The subject line is also just many question marks-it varies with the email. These are all actually coming from many, many different international email addresses. I just checked and it looks like I have already blocked about 150 emails addresses because of this one issue. Apparently one can not set a rule in Outlook using ?'s as a subject or a sender. Does anyone know of a workaround for this?

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Be sure to check prior discussions.
Jul 1, 2013 10:56AM PDT
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Stopping spam with ??? as the sender and the subject
Jul 10, 2013 8:36AM PDT

01. Please check if the domain of the senders are same

02. Please check if the IP Address of the senders are same

03. If both above are same then it will be easier for you to block the

complete domain or IP Address of the sender instead of blocking each email
address separately

04. You can follow the link - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980552 - for
further information